Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Screenplay by Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel & Elizabeth Sanders
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Frederick Weller, and Jayne Houdyshell
There were rumbling about the performances in this movie from the film festival circuit. I agree with that, but the script fails them from truly shining.
Lynsey (Lawrence) has been sent stateside after a traumatic event while she was on deployment in Afghanistan. Suffering from PTSD, Lynsey tries to reconnect with her mother, Gloria (Emond) to no avail. She befriends a mechanic, James (Henry) on day and they strike up a friendship. These two broken people try to find some way to forward with life.
As I stated before, Lawrence and Henry give solid performances in this film. Lawrence conveyed the raw emotion of having your world turn upside in a split second, and having to pick up the pieces again. Henry's character has to deal with a stupid decision that affect the people around him, and how he dealing with the fallout of that.
It felt like it was not a fully realized world. People were going through the motions. The screenplay tries to paint the portrait to a shattered woman living a shattered life. The downside is that the pacing of the movie makes the flow feel like a slog. The dialogue does not feel authentic. The plot sometimes gets lost along the way.
You question if the screenwriters dropped subplots or they didn't have a good way to have any resolution. It is a shame that the movie does not living up to expectations.
Rating: 6/10
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