Half-Brothers Mired in Full-Blown Hate
di Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times
Jeff Nichols’s “Shotgun Stories,” a drama about warring clans of brothers in small-town southern Arkansas, defines the classic western phrase “doing what a man’s got to do” as both a moral imperative and a biological compulsion. The movie is filled with unremarkable men who would rather die than appear weak.
The doom-spiral narrative of “Shotgun Stories” starts with the death of the patriarch, Hayes, who sired two clans of boys with two women. In his first marriage he was a violent alcoholic who never gave his children proper names; to this day they’re known only as Son (Michael Shannon), Kid (Barlow Jacobs) and Boy (Douglas Ligon). [...]
di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (3788 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 Marzo 2008
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