The Good Son
The Good Son
The Good Son
Reżyseria:
Joseph RubenScenariusz:
Ian McEwanZdjęcia:
John LindleyMuzyka:
Elmer BernsteinObsada:
Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Jacqueline Brookes, Quinn Culkin, Rory Culkin, Ashley Crow (więcej)VOD (1)
Opisy(1)
Po śmierci matki 10-letni Mark Evans zostaje oddany pod opiekę krewnych: ciotki Susan i wujka Wallace'a. Wujostwo rozumieją ból chłopca, bo sami stracili niedawno synka. Marka cieszy spotkanie z ich starszym synem, rówieśnikiem Henrym. Radość chłopca nie trwa długo. Niebawem orientuje się, że Henry przejawia upodobanie do dręczenia słabszych. Zdaniem Marka, kuzyn zachowuje się jak wcielenie wszelkiego zła. Susan i Wallace nie zauważają w zachowaniu syna niczego niepokojącego. Gdy dochodzi do tragedii, okazuje się, jak bardzo się mylili. (Canal+)
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Recenzje (4)
Very decent direction and cinematography. Little Culkin was obviously a megatalent as he gives a really incredible performance in places. Except the ending is maybe a bit too Sophie’s Choice -)
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Raw in its working atmosphere and original thanks to the focus on the child protagonists, who give excellent performances, but unfortunately the story is rather weak and predictable. No more, no less. 65%
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It would have been interesting if a director with a distinctive signature or a more expressive style had worked with the same screenplay. The Good Son is so dull in its execution that its unimaginatively calculated style paradoxically draws attention to itself. As a result, the film feels like an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which, however, is not entirely a bad thing. After all, the film’s ordinariness makes its concept of evil even more resonant. Though questions about the nature of evil are posed in the film, they are peculiarly voiced by a child who may still be that naïve. As the second main character shows, however, the evil here is not anything mystical, but rather something that is innately human and has its origins in both emotion and rationality, deriving in this case from a wilful, egocentric boy who is aware of the power that his status as a child gives him over those around him. Accordingly, it was a brilliant move to cast Macaulay Culkin in this role, and it can even be said that one alleged effect of the film was that following its release, everyone stopped buying into his image as an all-American angel. Thanks to the concept of evil as described above, The Good Son is not a horror movie, but rather a psychological thriller built on the theme of childhood innocence or, more precisely, the assumption and exploitability of that innocence.
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A good example of the horror crisis of the 1990s, where even something as average as The Good Son deserves at least three stars.
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