Take Shelter 2011
- Director: Jeff Nichols
- Based on book: no
- Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, SheaWigham, Katy Mixon, Robert Longstreet, Kathy Baker
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor/actress in:
- Michael Shannon – The Runaways, Eight Mile, Groundhog Day +Knives Out, The Shape of Water, Midnight Special, Man of Steel, The Greatest
- Jessica Chastain – The Help + X-Men, Molly’s Game, The Martian, INTERSTELLAR, Coriolanus, Jolene
- Robert Longstreet – Undertow, the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Kathy Baker–Last Chance Harvey, The Jane Austen Book Club, Cold Mountain, The Glass House, Cider House Rules, To Gillian on Her Thirty-Seventh Birthday, Edward Scissorhands, The Right Stuff
- Why? Sounded good. Good reviews.
- Seen: September 8, 2013
Is he hallucinating, heading
up the same path as his paranoid schizophrenic mother, hospitalized these past
twenty years? Or is he seeing the future, the dreadful storm to come?
This is not your run of the
mill thriller/disaster film. Far from it.
It’s thoughtful, carefully crafted, seriously and well acted. And painful to watch.
Curtis and Samantha live
quite an ordinary Midwestern American life. He’s a construction worker. She’s a seamstress working from home. They
have a little girl who’s deaf and they’re hoping for an operation for her.
He starts having nightmares.
Very real, terrifying nightmares of tornados, mad dogs, murderous friends. Has
he inherited his mother’s tragic madness? He seeks help but he can’t really
afford it. This and the glimpses into
the medical insurance system in the US add an extra somber note to an already
heavy movie.
He spends money the family
doesn’t have to build an elaborate tornado shelter. He alienates his friends and his family. Is
he mad? Or is the storm really coming?
The tornados, the downpours of thick, oily rain?
The tension builds up
slowly. We see inside his mind, we see him as others see him. It’s hard to watch and it creeps in under
your skin.
Whatever you expect at the end, it comes as a surprise.
3 ½ * of 5
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