The Father (IMDB)
Watched. Another tick for the best movies in Oscar 2021. Few left to watch before we will vote. Not as Academy members, just between us, my wife and I.
Spoiler, they will win a lot.
The film is superb for a few reasons:
- Anthony Hopkins is worth the standing ovation for the range of emotions he can pull you through during all movie, for the life he is able to give to this lost but still hanging on character. A person you feel sympathetic but without piety, that you feel damn near to your own world.
- Olivia Colman is standing along with Hopkins without any inferiority, maybe not at the same level of theatrical excellence the 83 years old master, and she delivers a great performance. You can see that because the other characters (very very minor, it's true) fade in the interaction with the her too.
- We can all relate with this story, we may have had a similar one in the family, among friends or fear one any time. With this hanging emotion in every single spectator, the director and the actors had to work without falling into the 'already seen', aware it's the kind of story that has been done thousands of times for cinema and tv alike. It had to be different. It did not have to be the usual over stretched human struggle of family 'oh no don't send grandpa to care home...' and teary cheap crap, perhaps easily solved with the sudden death of the person. This had to be different and so it was.
- The perspective of this movie is probably the best thing with the acting performance.
- It was not easy to tell this personal story of a person larger than life, with actor that can steal the scene in the fuzzing, discombobulating reality he is experiencing.
So watch it!
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