Christian Everhard Built The Crawling Around a Cop People Might Not Sympathize With
The Crawling began, for its writer and director Christian Everhard, as a late-night thought experiment. His first bold choice was to center the film on Mike, an alpha police officer on suspension for assaulting a suspect — a protagonist people might not have empathy for.
One night Mike is woken by bright lights and by an alien being. Everhard said he thought about the guy who defines himself by his manliness and masculinity, not only in his personal life but in his work.
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The risky part is asking an audience to sit with a man it may not have empathy for; active dislike is a hard engine to run a film on.
Everhard said his quarry was the guy who defines himself by manliness and masculinity at home and at work, which makes the interesting question not whether we warm to Mike but how much of him is built on a foundation that can be knocked away.