Train Dreams

I went into this with pretty high expectations because of it's oscar best picture nominee, but i never expected it to this good. I wanna start with the visuals, cause oh my lord this is stunning. Every single frame deserves to be hung up in the louvre. It uses the colors so well and feels so real at the same time. The cinematography is out of this world. The side characters are incredible, i love Gladys character she is so good and does so much for Roberts character. Arn is even better, his entire vibe does so much for the movie and his death ohh his death. He is also basically Roberts only friend or at least his first real friend. Ignatius, his second friend is great, he doesn't do as much for the story as the other two but his impact is also really good. Claire, she was first introduced near the end but the time she was on screen was impeccable. Just that one scene with her and Robert standing there talking about her husband and Roberts family, just wow. Robert is such an amazing character, he's obviously the main character so he gets a lot of screen time, and that screen time is just amazing every time. He's very very well written and yeah i think he speaks for himself he is obviously the driving force in this film. The emotions. The empotinal level is crazy. It should not be allowed for a film to be this deppresing, Robert really couldn't get anything good in his life. It would almost be rude not to mention the scene of the house burning and him losing well everything. Robert adopting dogs, just like Gladys always wanted to have, just phenomenal. The music and sound is spot on. The music sets the tone for every scene flawlessly. Even the silence, sometimes the silence tells more about a story than you might think. The acting. The acting is also fantastic, Joel Edgerton does an amazing job as Robert just the pure emotion in many of those scenes. I really like Felicity Jones as an actress in general and i think she was pretty good in this, she did the job but it wasn't anything groundbreaking. In conclusion this was first and formost robbed from getting an oscar for best cinematography, even tho Sinners had great visuals it just doesn't compare. I might even say that it should've won best picture, i don't it's crazy to say that. But yeah what a fucking movie.