The War Zone

‎goddamn it i was even expecting a much dramatic climax

‎goddamn it i was even expecting a much dramatic climax

the baby scene will haunt me forever

the baby scene will haunt me forever

Holy shit, that was dark. What a devastating movie, really hard to sit through.

Holy shit, that was dark. What a devastating movie, really hard to sit through.

for fucks sake, this is depressing. the father is just mentally ill, because what the fuck. at least the ending is for the better.
the film is nicely paced. despite the disgusting plot of this film, it flows pretty fast. tim roth as a director did a good job, so did the actors.

for fucks sake, this is depressing. the father is just mentally ill, because what the fuck. at least the ending is for the better.
the film is nicely paced. despite the disgusting plot of this film, it flows pretty fast. tim roth as a director did a good job, so did the actors.

Really difficult to articulate a review for this one, so hard to separate disgust from the theme and disgust for the project/form it ultimately takes on. There is certainly a sensitivity to the subject matter but there is also something that rings /off/ about the film's subjectivity grounded in the brother's POV. I would say there is a real lack of finesse in some parts? I do think that the idea of dysfunctional family enmeshment and the burden of secrecy are uniquely characterized here, especially with portraying the way that the neuroses of secrecy can never be fully repressed but rather end up exploding out of us in even further inappropriate bursts of misdirected emotion. 

Honestly surprisingly similar to Michael Haneke's style, I'm glad that Tim Roth was cast in his remake of Funny Games, but I do wonder what his career might have looked like had he kept on with directing.

Really difficult to articulate a review for this one, so hard to separate disgust from the theme and disgust for the project/form it ultimately takes on. There is certainly a sensitivity to the subject matter but there is also something that rings /off/ about the film's subjectivity grounded in the brother's POV. I would say there is a real lack of finesse in some parts? I do think that the idea of dysfunctional family enmeshment and the burden of secrecy are uniquely characterized here, especially with portraying the way that the neuroses of secrecy can never be fully repressed but rather end up exploding out of us in even further inappropriate bursts of misdirected emotion. 

Honestly surprisingly similar to Michael Haneke's style, I'm glad that Tim Roth was cast in his remake of Funny Games, but I do wonder what his career might have looked like had he kept on with directing.