Five Hotbed Issues from 'Lakeview Terrace'
By Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, September 19, 2008
#4: The Crazy Neighbor Issue
Neil LaBute: “I think the movie really speaks to that fact, that it can be very hard to live with each other. For me, literally, it’s that Rodney King statement, “Can’t we all get along?” And the answer is emphatically varied. I just think it’s really hard to live together in relationships, and next to each other and share walls. But you have to because what’s the alternative? This is the alternative. But how do we believably make this the alternative. A film like Unlawful Entry is the over-the-top movie version in which the guy empties the bank account and changes with your records at the DMV. As opposed to, here’s a guy who just wants to mess with you and you can’t get him to understand you. And the fact he’s a cop, who else do you call? In the end, it becomes a Western. I have to help myself.” 