Nightingale (II) (2014)
10/10
Extremely Happy the Fish Were Okay in the End
3 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I hope my title doesn't spoil the movie for you, if you haven't yet seen this movie.

It's likely I spent too much time fixating on the health and welfare of the fish, as soon as Peter brought them home. Maybe I was trying, in large part, to distance myself from taking part in his suffering and excruciatingly painful loss of grip on reality.

Oweyolo is superb. I watched this movie right after seeing "Gringo," so, honestly, there are not enough superlatives extant to describe and praise his mesmerizingly wonderful acting range.

This film is watchable and gripping 90% due to his admirable talent as an actor. The other 10% is the phenomenal camera work. Oh, and, well, the story itself.

One thing I didn't find at all believeable was that the love of Peter's life never got around to changing his phone number. But that's a small niggle.

Not being all caught up in religiosity myself, the fact that Peter's whole life had been wrapped in Jesus talk made me feel really sad for him. And I started thinking a lot about the guy down the street from us who, about 30 years back now, stabbed both his parents to death-----his super duper religious parents.Wonder how he's doing in prison?

The fact that Peter was blogging wasn't made clear to me until the very end. I somehow thought he was just kind of recording his downslide into madness and it never occurred to me he was sharing his misery online. Brilliant.

Which contributed to the brilliant ending, too. So glad I watched this. Cathartic. I cried like a baby at the end.
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