Special CHAPTER 27 ♥

CHAPTER 27

I just finish to re-watch this sad,terrible and insane wonderful movie with Jared,for me it's not a film...it's real,John Lennon was my mith and will be a legend forever. ♫ ♥

A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous, mentally unstable 25-year old, socially awkward fan of The Beatles who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of history.

A man whose painfully restless mind thrashes about uncontrollably between paranoia, sociopathic lying and delusion is summed up in such character revealing comments as "I'm too vulnerable for a world full of pain and lies" and "Everyone is cracked and broken. You have to find something to fix you. To give you what you need. To make you whole again."

From his lies to cab drivers (identifying himself as The Beatles' sound engineer) to his socially unacceptable behavior around Jude, a young fan he meets outside The Dakota, to his argument with paparazzi photographer Paul, Chapman keeps the psychoses bubbling below the surface as his grasp on reality deteriorates into a completely misguided rage.

Jared interviews about the movie

"Anything after December 8, 1980, had no interest to me. I took the approach of [knowing] everything from the day of his birth to that horrible night of December 8, 1980, where John Lennon lost his life. ... This is a film that's going to forever be a defining element of who I am as an actor and as a person. I knew that going in."

~Jared

"I’m probably not completely normal. I seem that when I physically dedicate to the role, people find this, appreciate, and they look less critically on acting defects. Then it’s kind of assurance. In the same time I know, that this way of making job ruining health. In this sense I’m idiot and masochist. To this day, for example, I have problems with backbone and joints after this, when I tried to slim down 20 kilograms, what I put on weight to role of John Lennon’s murderer in “Chapter 27”."

~Jared

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