Wow, Take Shelter absolutely wrecked me. What an incredible group of performances and a stellar screenplay. Whether you take this as a parable about the end of the world, a metaphor for marriage, or something in between, my reaction to it was definitely tied to my own experience of what effects mental illness can have on a family. Besides that, I really enjoyed a movie that understood the Midwest as a landscape and did not condescend to its people, and managed to have completely real conversations at workplaces and in therapy sessions, not to mention a deaf character who was not treated as an abstraction.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 06:06:55 +0000
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