Drax1
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A Vigilante (2018) Netflix
This was never going to be an easy watch given it's theme of domestic violence. It's been depicted with absolute grit and realism in flicks such as Nil By Mouth, and or a smattering of Hollywood gloss in the likes of Sleeping With The Enemy and Enough. Director Sarah Daggar-Nickson ensures this falls somewhere in the middle.
Olivia Wilde, who I only really knew previously as the lovely Quorra in 'Tron : Legacy', takes centre stage here, and surprised the hell out of me. She plays Sadie, a domestic violence survivor, only able to cope with an everyday existence by attempting to free others from a similar fate. She really does deliver some 'next level' stuff here in terms of a performance, and it's what anchors the whole film.
Pretty much everything onscreen ensures a harsh watch, whether it's survivors talking over the horrors of their pasts, or Wilde dispensing her own special brand of reprisal against abusers. This is yet further amplified by the washed out palette of the whole thing, it's bleak winter setting, and a very urgent score.
And the last 30 minutes has to represent some of the most tense scenes I've come across in recent memory.
Well worth checking out, and Wilde was a genuine revelation.
7.5/10
This was never going to be an easy watch given it's theme of domestic violence. It's been depicted with absolute grit and realism in flicks such as Nil By Mouth, and or a smattering of Hollywood gloss in the likes of Sleeping With The Enemy and Enough. Director Sarah Daggar-Nickson ensures this falls somewhere in the middle.
Olivia Wilde, who I only really knew previously as the lovely Quorra in 'Tron : Legacy', takes centre stage here, and surprised the hell out of me. She plays Sadie, a domestic violence survivor, only able to cope with an everyday existence by attempting to free others from a similar fate. She really does deliver some 'next level' stuff here in terms of a performance, and it's what anchors the whole film.
Pretty much everything onscreen ensures a harsh watch, whether it's survivors talking over the horrors of their pasts, or Wilde dispensing her own special brand of reprisal against abusers. This is yet further amplified by the washed out palette of the whole thing, it's bleak winter setting, and a very urgent score.
And the last 30 minutes has to represent some of the most tense scenes I've come across in recent memory.
Well worth checking out, and Wilde was a genuine revelation.
7.5/10
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