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 Everything.
Simply everything about this movie is sheer brilliance and deserves so
many accolades that seeing it end made me so immensely sad that I
couldn’t help but want to go back and watch more.
I made it a point to read the book prior to seeing the movie, so bear in
mind that this review comes from someone who has seen the movie and read
the book.
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee are such wonderful actors that
watching them “act” seems effortless. Watching Viggo do anything on the
screen anymore is such a blessing that it makes me ashamed when he’s
constantly passed over for the big awards for people like Sean Penn or
Daniel Day Lewis who aren’t so much good actors as they are full of hot
air.
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This movie, he deserves an
Academy Award and every big award of the season. The crux of
the film is, after the world “ends,” a man has to protect
his son any way he can. And he does. He goes to such extreme
lengths in this movie that you feel every single ounce of
it. Every single heartbreak. Every single moment of sheer
terror and worry. You’re there with him.
When Charlize Theron shows in
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But when she and Viggo discuss the future
and what will happen, and when she does do what she has to do, it breaks
your heart. Every single time. When they show the two as younger people
in love, it breaks your heart. When the boy is born, it breaks your
heart.
Everything he does for his son, you’re with him the whole way. And you
know that if you were in the same situation, you could only hope to be
as strong as he is and do the things he does.
The movie gives us a couple quick cameos here and there from very good
actors such as Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall(who pop in and pop out so
fast they don’t affect the film at all or take away from the beauty).
But as I said, this is a film about a man and his son. A man who seems,
to his son, to be out of this world. A boy who acts so much better than
most young adult actors in Hollywood and makes you wonder where he came
from. A film with a beautiful score, perfect cinematography, and so much
tension, it kills you. This is one of the best films of 2009, if not
the best.
There is no bad to this movie except that it ends. That’s it. Take all
the accolades that people are throwing at Inglorious Basterds and give
it to a movie like this and you’re all set, honestly. Put this with
Moon, Hurt Locker and District 9 and you’ve got some seriously great
moviemaking this year, in a year filled with terrible sequels and
remakes, this is the movie for those people who want to see a film.
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