Back when the idea of adapting author Jo Nesbo’s novel was first floated, Martin Scorsese was named as its director – perhaps with an eye to give Nesbo’s horror-infused prose a heavy atmosphere akin to the filmmaker’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island. Schoonmaker’s name among the opening titles speaks to The Snowman‘s turbulent behind-the-scenes story. Was the sequence originally much longer, but later cut down? Why does it all feel so disjointed? That the opening credits name Thelma Schoonmaker as the editor only serves to deepen the mystery: Schoonmaker is Martin Scorsese’s regular collaborator, and one of the most respected technicians in the business. Introducing the traumatic childhood of a Norwegian boy whose mother drowns when her car skitters onto thin ice, the scene’s editing is full of jolts and strange elisions. It’s evident from the opening scene – a prologue set some time in the 1980s – that we’re in curious territory with The Snowman.
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