Well, if you’re looking for an uncomplicated heart warming tale to watch with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday, this isn’t it. I loved this movie, for all the reasons I usually love movies — it’s dark, gritty, complex, emotionally taxing, and beautifully acted. For extra interest, it also addresses issues of religion, faith, and redemption, and leaves them largely unresolved, also just like I like. Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn are the main characters in an intricate story with an accident at the center. From the official website, director Alejandro González Iñárritu describes the film as:
a meditation that explores some of the things in our complex lives: loss, addiction, love, guilt, coincidence, vengeance, obligation, faith, hope, and redemption. I like multi-dimensional and contradictory characters, as I am and as, I guess, are all human beings that I know. No one is simply good or bad. We are just floating in an immense universe of circumstances. I like to show their weaknesses and their strengths without judging them, because only then can they reveal things about our human condition.
Beautifully done. Would be a great double feature with Crash.
Thoughts In Random Patterns 