de palma film generally fall into two camp represent the one where his visual bravura and deeply satirical worldview and smart self reference compensate for his discarding of more grounded storytelling tool represent perceive realism and narrative cohesion and plausible characterisation . and the one quite simply where they do not . in the former camp and find carrie and femme fatale and dress to kill and snake eye and blow out and body double . in the latter and see the black dahlia and bonfire of the vanity and the m representi film and raise cain and mission to mar . interesting failure and but failures all the same . now to the fury . forget all the hysterical parody of carrie here and the hokum concern psychic power and government agency and broken parental bond . these thing be the mundane prism through which de palma shin his light and it refract into a million shimmer little piece . what be important be de palma relationship with the fury villain and john cassavetes . learn viewer will also recognise cassavetes a the great and independent director of caustic drama like shadow and woman under the influence and face . check them out if you haven not already theyre soul sear stuff . a a director and cassavetes rely a lot on a realist aesthetic represent harsh cinematography while an unshowy camera while claustrophobic interior and close ups while loose and improvisational performance . his character be often trap in their own psychological prison . the harsh emotion that uncurl themselves slowly and cumulatively and in his film and be catch with the precision of a scalpel . if youre still with me and hopefully you see where i be go with this . de palma operatic brand of film making be an anathema to cassavetes . his camera take flight like an angel and swoop like a demon . his eye be a voyeur and a lover and an aggressor and a stalker and a liar and a comfort and a cheat . one thing it isn not be passive . so the fury see a battle not between silly fbi men and even silly psychic and but between two oppose cinematic approach . de palma a ever throw everything at the screen overhead scan and dervish swoop and roam pan and pov shot and gratuitous slo mo and shot within shot and temporal shift and imagined future and project past and disguise and hysteria and romance and death and the deep and deep red of spilt blood . then we have cassavettes performance a jet black presence lingering at the fringe of the frame . he understate every scene he in and work against de palma rhapsodical movement . it great fun to watch . there could however only be one winner . and how . cassavetes character literally explodes and destroy by the strength of emotion ( fury . ) that be evoke by a great and rich vision ( de palma ) . neat . can not believe someone as smart a cassavetes go into this not see the big picture . he must have be pay handsomely .