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''The Killer Inside Me'' is a 2010 American film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson.〔(IFC gets 'Killer' instinct at Sundance - Controversial Winterbottom film finds U.S. home ) from ''Variety''〕 The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson.〔(The Killer Inside Me ) from TheMovieInsider.com〕 At its release, it was criticised for its graphic depiction of violence directed toward women. ==Plot== In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town — patient, dependable, and well-liked. Beneath his pleasant facade, however, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. As a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl in the back of a parked car by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to the crime and served prison time to protect Lou. After being released, Mike was hired by the construction firm of Chester Conway (Ned Beatty). Mike died on the job after slipping and falling off a beam through several floors in a building under construction. Lou believes that Conway planned the accident. At the request of Sheriff Bob Maples (Tom Bower), Lou visits Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba), a prostitute who is having an affair with Conway's son, Elmer (Jay R. Ferguson). When Joyce objects to Lou's treatment of her and slaps him, he throws her on the bed and uses his belt to beat her until her buttocks are bruised and bleeding. Joyce enjoys pain, and she and Lou begin a passionate love affair. Joyce suggests that Lou would never leave town with her, but they devise a plot to extort $10,000 from the Conways. Sheriff Maples and Chester Conway ask Lou to oversee the pay-off. Lou has another plan: he brutally beats Joyce to death and when Elmer arrives, Lou shoots and kills him. He then plants the gun on Joyce, hoping to make the scene look like the two have killed each other. Joyce survives the ordeal, however, and Conway announces his intention to see her executed for killing Elmer. Lou's reputation begins to falter: his long-time girlfriend and fiancee Amy (Kate Hudson) suspects that he is cheating on her, and the county district attorney Howard Hendricks (Simon Baker), who has arrived in town to investigate the murders, suspects that Lou could be the killer. Lou is asked to join Sheriff Maples and Conway in taking Joyce to hospital in Fort Worth where doctors can operate on her; Conway wants her alive so he can interrogate her as soon as possible. Lou waits in a hotel room while the surgery takes place. Maples arrives to tell him that Joyce died on the operating table. Lou and Maples return to west Texas by train. While browsing his bookshelves at home Lou discovers some explicit photographs of a woman that were hidden inside a Bible. The woman was Helene, a housekeeper and babysitter of his youth who bears a resemblance to Joyce. Lou recalls that Helene introduced him to sadomasochism, urging him to strike her like his father did and proclaiming that she loved pain. Lou burns the photos. Hendricks arrests a local youth, Johnnie Pappas (Liam Aiken), whom Lou has previously befriended, as a suspect in the murders of Elmer and Joyce. He was found with one of the $20 bills Elmer was to give Joyce in the pay-off; Conway had the bills marked in order to blackmail Joyce if she didn't leave town. Because Lou is close to Johnnie, Hendricks asks Lou to persuade him to confess, but it was Lou himself who had given Johnnie the marked $20 bill as a tip after taking it from Elmer. In the prison cell Lou confesses to Johnnie that he was the one responsible. Out of sight Lou hangs Johnnie, making it look like a suicide. Johnnie's death only makes the town more suspicious of Lou. Journalist and union organizer Joe Rothman (Elias Koteas), who previously suggested that Conway had Lou's foster brother Mike killed, implies that he knows Lou killed Elmer and Joyce and recommends Lou leave town. Lou persuades Amy to elope with him after proposing to her; their love life has become increasingly violent and she acquiesces to his desire to spank her. At first Lou is satisfied, but his homicidal urges begin to resurface and he reflects on the inevitable circumstance of his killing Amy. An alcoholic bum (Brent Briscoe) whom Lou had previously burnt with a cigar has been trailing Lou and has worked out that he was responsible for the murders of Elmer and Joyce and expects $5,000 to keep quiet. Lou agrees to his demands and asks him to come back in two weeks, the date when he and Amy plan to elope. When that day arrives Lou punches and kicks Amy to death in his kitchen, and when the bum enters and sees her body runs for help. Lou chases the bum shouting that he has murdered Amy. Another deputy Jeff Plummer (Matthew Maher) opens fire on the bum and shoots him dead. The next morning Plummer appears on Lou's porch to tell him that Maples has committed suicide, convinced of Lou's guilt and heartbroken over his crimes. Hendricks and Plummer try to get a confession from Lou, who cockily refuses. They have a letter that Amy intended to give him before they eloped, in which Amy begs him to come clean. Lou is arrested and after a week in prison is sent to an insane asylum. While he is there he suffers hallucinations of a photographic slideshow featuring Amy and Helene on his bedroom wall. After a few weeks, a slick lawyer, Billy Boy Walker (Bill Pullman) has him released and drives him home. Walker has been hired by Joe Rothman to protect the union man from the suggestion that he was also involved in the Conway murder. Lou tells Walker his whole story and concludes that he doesn't want anyone else to die, but hints that his imminent death will not add to the tally as he is "already dead". Lou, now lost entirely in his own violent fantasies, douses his home in gasoline and alcohol, dresses himself smartly for his own demise and armed with a knife sits waiting in his study for a real or an imagined retribution to arrive. Reality and fantasy blur as police vehicles and armed policemen are seen converging on the house, but looking out of the window Lou sees a car pull up with Hendricks, Conway, Plummer and the resurrected Joyce, scarred but alive. Joyce tells Lou that she refused to cooperate with the authorities, Lou tells her he loves her and then stabs her. Plummer opens fire, hitting both Joyce and Lou and igniting the gasoline in the house. Outside, the approaching policemen see the house explode in a huge fireball, which it appears Lou has ignited to kill himself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Killer Inside Me (2010 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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