Chapter 27 is a 2007 biographical film depicting the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. It was written and directed by Jarrett Schaefer, based on the book Let Me Take You Down by Jack Jones, produced by Robert Salerno, and stars Jared Leto. The film takes place in December 1980, and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche.
As an independent production, it was picked up for distribution by Peace Arch Entertainment and premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received polarized reactions from critics. It later went into limited theatrical release in the United States on March 28, 2008. Chapter 27 was cited as one of the most controversial films of 2007. It won the Debut Feature Prize for Schaefer at the Zurich Film Festival, where Leto also received the Best Performance award for his interpretation of Mark David Chapman.
The similar film The Killing of John Lennon was released the previous year, produced in the United Kingdom, and dealt more extensively with Chapman's life prior to the shooting than Chapter 27.
Turn the page, what do you see?
This story is ending.
Fill this page, we'll mop it once destroyed.
Empty your organs, little girls and little boys.
Take us all, all of us who we are.
All of us, and take these things, that you see, well all of these things.
Pass the great matron of desire.
My low justified.
Will just a little more will make you more?
Will just a little bit make you way more than you, you could be with me?
Will just a little bit make you see?
Will just a little dark make you...
Turn the page? What do you see?
This story is ending.
Fill this page, we'll mop it once destroyed.
Empty your organs, little girls and little boys.
Turn the page, what do you see?
This story is ending.
Fill this page, we'll mop it once destroyed.
Empty your organs, little girls and little boys.
We, we are life.
We, we are dead.
We, we are blood.
We, we are flesh.
We, we are dead, there is nothing left.
We are the ones who have cussed, and the ones who have blessed.
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