The cast is great: good actors doing a good job.
The film is often enjoyably tense but I wouldn't describe it as a thriller. I don't want to sound too pretentious but the film is very much an existentialist discussion centred on the value of man, aspirations and despair along with related themes.
I was very pleased that the radio-based, evangelist drivel was woven into Stone's own, self-serving ramblings - demonstrating that the sea of so-called spiritualism and organised religion is all one, great morass of ignorance, superstition and manipulation. At least, that was my understanding of the script.
A moving film with some thoughtful ideas.
The film is often enjoyably tense but I wouldn't describe it as a thriller. I don't want to sound too pretentious but the film is very much an existentialist discussion centred on the value of man, aspirations and despair along with related themes.
I was very pleased that the radio-based, evangelist drivel was woven into Stone's own, self-serving ramblings - demonstrating that the sea of so-called spiritualism and organised religion is all one, great morass of ignorance, superstition and manipulation. At least, that was my understanding of the script.
A moving film with some thoughtful ideas.