The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Eddie A Trippy movie. Eerie. Kind of Kubrick style. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/25 Full Review Dave F Good movie. To previous reviewers: stop with the spoilers! The point of reviewing a movie is to give viewers an idea of whether it is worth investing the time to watch it, not to reveal the plot and ruin it. If you don’t like it, just say so. There’s no need to wreck the experience for other viewers. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/27/25 Full Review Lucio Leonardo P Entertainment that causes so much strangeness in its story, but in a purposeful way to, without rushing and being assertive, develop a mystery that makes us regret its resolution, leaving the viewer in shock with the decision to be made and with the coldness that is chosen. And despite the doubt left, the killing of the sacred deer was something that had to be done! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Sarfaraz A Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth 2009) co-wrote and directed the film, which stars Colin Farell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Alicia Silverstone, Sunny Suljik and others. Colin portrays a surgeon who becomes involved with a teen kid whose father died a few years earlier as a result of his medical operation under influence. Colin's family, which consists of a daughter, a son, and a wife, is invaded by the youngster, and the two children gradually get ill, unable to walk or eat. The film boasts excellent photography and set design. Performances are also great. However, one cannot comprehend what mystical power the small boy, who behaves abnormally, possesses to cause healthy and haughty nourished youngsters to cease eating and walking. There was no explanation for this phenomena. The young boy is upset that his father died during a surgery conducted by the surgeon, yet he is perfectly OK with the idea of the surgeon having an intimate relationship with his mother. Perhaps that is an indication of a mental abnormality. But what about the background why the youngsters become ill? The film has a cruel vengeance storyline based on Greek myth (Iphigenia), which may outrage some viewers, but its objective was to create an unsettling environment for a horror narrative. If you've watched the director's film Dogtooth, you'll understand his ludicrous horror setting. Note: According to Greek mythology, Iphigenia was Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's daughter. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was enraged because the Greeks had killed one of the wild creatures she protected. The only way to please the goddess and was to sacrifice Iphigenia. Agamemnon consented to the sacrifice. He called his daughter from Mycenae and told her she would marry Achilles, the finest of the Greek warriors. When the girl arrived in Aulis, she was taken to Artemis' shrine and sacrificed. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/24/25 Full Review David F This oddball film mixes upper class midwestern settings with a Grimm Fairy Tale-like story about a young boy who blames the death of his father on a doctor. The boy tells the doctor that someone in his family must die to equal things out between them and the doctor comes to believe that he must sacrifice a member of his family in order to save the rest of them. The tone, acting, and setting are really well done and very unsettling, it’s unlike almost any other movie you’ll ever see. It’s original, mesmerizing, and thought provoking. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review JP A Worst. Movie. Ever. Seriously. I want the time spent watching it back. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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