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Elliott LesterKäsikirjoitus:
Frederick MenschKuvaus:
Pieter VermeerSävellys:
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NIGHTINGALE is a provocative single-character drama that probes the darkest corners of a disturbed mind. It follows a lonely war veteran who begins to psychologically unravel ahead of an old friend's impending visit. This HBO Films presentation is a fascinating portrait of one man's descent into the delusions of a fractured mind. Told with incisive imagery, energy and humor, Nightingale is a compassionate depiction of isolation in the midst of a world ruled by social media. David Oyelowo gives a spellbinding, roller-coaster ride of a performance as Peter, the sole character in the film, a war veteran who lives in a nondescript ranch home with his mother, and shares an ongoing monologue with himself, and the audience, via his laptop computer's video recorder. Unhinged by dark memories, an unhealthy obsession with a former Army friend, and his banal life working at a supermarket and living in a house unchanged for decades, Peter admits that he recently "snapped" and killed his mother. The crime has a perversely liberating effect on Peter, who sees in his mother's demise a license to remodel their home and, especially, invite his army pal Edward over for dinner. Unable to get a commitment from Edward, and further agitated by a series of phone calls from his mother's concerned friends and his sister, Peter descends into a lonely, paranoid world where delusion and reality collide. As suspicions about his mother's fate escalate, Peter finds himself caught in a claustrophobic web of his own making, helpless to reverse the consequences of his recent actions and doomed to pay a severe price for his crime. (Cinemax)
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(50th KVIFF) A true one-man show. David Oyelowo never leaves the screen and we don’t see any characters other than him (and I think we don’t even hear them, only he can be heard when he’s on the phone, but I wouldn’t swear on that). And yet, the film never manages to get boring. Oyelowo plays a sociopath and a killer who’d already had enough with his mother and has murdered her, and now he’s in peace. But because he’s alone he pathologically clings to the idea of inviting an old friend from the army to come over for dinner. The film captures his fall into a deeper and deeper madness. And surprisingly, it’s quite fun (with many dark tones, of course), because, despite everything I’ve written, the character is likeable. Not likeable in a way that I would have dinner with him, but rather, as someone has already mentioned in a comment here, as a poor bastard you feel sorry for. Definitely worth watching. 75 %
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David Oyelowo is intentionally stealing the spotlight of this movie all for himself. No wonder, since there’s practically no one else in this movie. At the same time, it’s an interesting probe into the mind of someone who got fed up with his day-to-day reality, burdened with not-so-happy past. He doesn’t even seem like a bad person; he just wants to survive in the wilderness of the present day. It’s an interesting small-scale movie with an acting show and a single well-rounded message at the end.
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