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Beautiful Boy Reviews
Heartbreaking. Great cast.
What an emotional roller coaster these two actors take you on. A Very tough watch but beautifully and believably acted. May all who read this not have to live through this from any angle or perspective.
Spoilers: Thematically vast but like a rock skipping along the surface of the lake of these themes. Is it a critique of a gun-riddled society, where mass murders are the norm, not the exception? Like "Ordinary People," it is a tale of economically upscale people who lose a son and then watch the family disintegrate. But it's worse, as it is also about youth suicide, which Ordinary People had, but this sick college kid took 17 people with him on the campus. So Maria and Michael had the double whammy of dealing with a son dead of suicide, but also of a mass murdering son. Bello is a champ, not a false note here. Sheen is usually good, but seemed stilted somehow and trying to show us how a good actor does it, as the Brit also had some trouble with the American accent. The ravages of mass murder on not just the dead and wounded but on the families of the killer is a theme, as Its ripples just keep adding up. Were the parents too uninvolved due to the economic mandates of their jobs to have the beautiful suburban home with the beautiful lawn and subterranean sprinkler system? A social critique of home life being chilly as the big energy goes toward success in a capitalist world? It is no wonder the marriage cracks, as they blame one another for their son's mental meltdown and violent destruction -- you were too absent physically and emotionally, no, you were too demanding. The 온라인카지노추천-hatemongers and hounding press want grist for their mills at the expense of getting the story wrong, as a client, a boss, friends show they're foes as well. The couple seem to want to move on as normal, but are so irreparably wounded, they're back in each other's arms, feeling no place else to be, as neither wants to do it alone. The break of Sheen at the end is so deep, we don't know if he is neurotic or now actually psychotic. The only hopeful note is that they are together at the end, she mouthing to herself we will get no burden too big to lift, he too distraught to want anything but for her to hold and sleep with him. Nothing gets too much attention, so we are left with questions. So it may be just a journalistic style account of how we survive or don't in our success-oriented capitalist society, our insane culture of hundreds of millions of guns used for repetitive mass murders, our need for more love, attention, affection in families (see 1997's "Ice Storm"). It really answers none of those, nor tries. How do you rebound from a dead, mass-murdering only child? Maybe you don't. Reminds of 2011's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" with mom Tilda Swinton and mass-murdering high-schooler Ezra Miller.
I agree with Roger Ebert that this one was well-executed but it gets trapped in its own premise. Any emotional relief or silver lining is almost unthinkable just due to the circumstances of the story itself, and so we walk away not taking much away other than some empathy for the almost unendurable plight of the main characters.
Great acting. It shows you what is really going on in the mind of addicts. This is not a feel-good movie. It's a reality.
this is a VERY interesting take on the whole pandemic of students killing students we seem to be having lately. I thought it was an INCREDIBLE movie and would watch it again.
It's not fun, it's not entertaining and it's not tied with a bow but it is a slice of life so well written and acted that I believe almost every scene, emotion and expression, and that makes it brilliantly educational. No couple in this situation would allow someone to make a documentary and this is the next best thing to feeling this important and, sadly, not uncommon crisis.
With a smart script, good direction and strong performances by it's cats especially Michael Sheen. Beautiful Boy is an emotional and powerful drama that is very engrossing.
Very well acted although a bit on the depressing side about the parents of a student who decides to open gunfire at his high school killing multiple people and taking his own life. The tragic events take their toll on everyone and the parents struggle with their own relationship as they try and get to grips as to why this has happened
It can be hard to evaluate a film such as this. Its striking realism is both a gift and a curse: seeing its protagonists in their naturally empty and shell-shocked state for much of the film doesn't make for entertaining viewing - nonetheless its emotional scenes pack such a weighty punch, heightened by Sheen and Bello's terrific performances, you can truly feel their agony. While the fallout from the unconscionable number of tragedies that inspired this film tends to focus mainly on the perpetrator, then on the victims and their families, "Beautiful Boy" wisely forces its audience to think about the side of the story that is rarely heard.
A fairly good idea is executed with only moderate success. Looking at a tragic mass shooting from the perspective of the parents of the shooter is novel, but the film ultimately just enters the same territory as the far superior "Rabbit Hole". Michael Sheen, Maria Bello and Alan Tudyk are just fine, but there's precious little here of interest.
Beautiful Bore is essentially a thirty minute skit with 15 minutes of relevant dialogue and an extra hour of long, mind numbing worthless footage and 'pass the salt' lines to fill the time out to movie length. Huge gaps in the story result in nothing being learned. Instead, we are treated to numerous, mute scenes of people staring, sitting, lounging, reading, cleaning and even picking out produce in a super-market. The story advances all 20 minutes worth of aimless direction at a rate of about once every 20 minutes. If you were looking for a film with more depth and insight than a four-minute music-video, lower your expectations greatly before viewing. This heavy handed use of ambiance scenes that drown the viewer in meaningless footage is apparently a long montage of high-minded attempts to use silence and expression to evoke moods that have no framework. Instead, combined with the trying-too-hard trendy camerawork and frankly offensive stench of pride in amateur sloppiness, the viewer is immersed in inscrutable, useless, long pauses in a story that barely begins and never really concludes. The shooting, its cause and questions are so removed from the script that it may as well be any other soap opera episode about a souring marriage, complete with 15 minutes of motel chat about vending snacks, booze and dreary sex. Every eventual scene-change defibrillates the viewer into remembering there is actually a movie happening, and the amount of protracted scenes that do nothing are such exercises in still-life that one could be forgiven for whistling in the middle of the film for entertainment. It's the sort of movie that you applaud in the end because it's finally over, and when the credits finally roll, it feels like a confession that the director had no real point after all and just wants to quit trying once the 90 minute mark is hit. Whatever film festival accolades this film so blatantly sought in this art-house coma of a screen-play, where the blank paper it's typed on contributes as much as the ink, the questions it leaves for the audience aren't 'how would the parents of a school shooter see things?' or 'what impact does violent raging massacres have on a young murderers family?'. No, the question this film leaves the audience with is 'What games do I have on my phone while I wait for this slide-show to finally end?'.
Saw this on 온라인카지노추천, very dramatic, depressing and you really feel for the protagonists. train wreck you can't keep your eyes away.
You always get to see the "killers" side or the "pyschopaths" side, step into the role of the parents dealing with a son who was the culprit in a school campus massacre, where he takes his own life in the end. Parents have to pick up the pieces. Great movie, very deep.
A rather depressing subject and film, But it delivers with great acting and high emotion in my opinion.
This was good - very sad but it was brilliant how they put it together