The long-awaited review of the bloody psychothriller directed by Brian Taylor, skillfully combining in itself, as elements of the ridiculous "black" Comedy, accompanied by cheerful music, share unimaginable, just overwhelming his madness horror from the realism of the events and actions of the main characters, but also certain panache drama, escaping in the stream full of madness, about one of the most urgent in our lives the — "the complexity of marital relations" — last place. On the basis of the earlier anticipation of the many revisions of the official trailer, posters and scrutiny rereading the story in the amount of a couple of short lines — it is safe to say that the movie has justified all waiting for me how the one hand, the devoted admirer of creativity of the legendary Nicolas cage, so simple fan and interesting movie.
First of all, the light in the most General outline of the plot of the film:
The film's prologue reveals to the audience a wonderful view of a nice small town with a lot compact houses lined up one behind the other, most of the walls which are home to a full and, on first glance, the perfect family, of which a key focus is on the family of Ryan.
Family Ryan — the typical American family is quite decent middle class living, consisting of successful and ambitious good family man — Brent Ryan (Nicolas cage), his wife beauty and beautiful mom — Kendall Ryan (Selma Blair) and two children part of an energetic and playful kid Josh (Zachary Arthur) and suffering all the problems of any younger youngster, bad my daughter Carly (Anne winters).
Family life Ryan, as and many families, it would seem, is no noticeable. Have a daughter that overcomes the desire to live free and boundless life of a modern young girl having fun with a guy stealing money from the mother and, gradually, forgetting the family and all of her values. In the other corner a mother, an exhausted, household chores and indifference of her husband and children, afflicted by the syndrome of "old Age — no joy." Near in its comfortable, quiet Desk huddled at the head of the family, the father, often covered by a nostalgia for the "the former" and passionately obsessed with the desire to create a modest entertainment area of joy in the midst of the whole matrimonial mess.
One day a habitual way of life for all families in including the family of the Ryans, is replaced by unimaginable nightmare. Suddenly the TV begins to broadcast strange unexplained signal, on hearing which, the parents, when their children begin to make over them in the most brutal acts of violence, the lion's share leaves a mountain of corpses of children.
In the midst of all that is happening the mad bloody chaos are and daughter Carly along with little Josh, with whom they recently loved and cherished dad and mom already hurry to deal with great pleasure...
Despite its such a modest duration of 83 minutes, this uniquely insane the movie succeeded in the development process of its ambitious plot to connect in a lot of the above genres, each of which demonstrates periodically, sometimes even in the most unexpected moments. You expect this could get ugly? But the filmmakers take You instantly the recent past, in which, for example, Pope Brant peacefully paternal talks with the son or as Brent sets out with rage and anger his monologue about the nuisance of family life, the longing for youth other sores.
However, in the process of viewing the viewer is able to observe not only a gripping Thriller from acts of cruelty and murder of children. In the course of watching the attentive viewer will pay attention and on, it would seem very awkward music, which, with one hand, do not combined with the nature of the developing plot, with the other, his absurdity adds some notes of sabornost, and shaking the picture (probably manual mode) in the style of "the first witness" is not allows the user to close eyes for a moment.
Along with the above, the creators of the film unobtrusive and addressed to unfortunately, inherent to many modern children indifferent, rough and the most terrible attitude to their parents. Scene stealing money from their own mothers, causing the external image of the characters-Teens in the style of "moth", drug use, and many other scourges of today's youth are quite capable to provoke a feeling of disgust of the audience to such characters. A few parent conversations, containing in itself so called "the cry of the soul", the desperation of the anesthesia of everyday life, longing for young and the fear of being left by the children sooner or later — all together and forms on the my opinion, the soul-touching drama, which no doubt can take place and in real life.
Thus, we note the same key features of the movie "Mom and dad":
- A unique combination and demonstration of a variety of genres with a modest 83 minute; duration;
- Emphasis on topical issues of modern life: "the complexity of relations in the family", "despair from everyday", "the vices of modern youth";
- Great cast: Nicolas cage for his outstanding performance as "loving" mad daddy was forced to endure a great many genuine sensations caused by his character and his on-screen wife Selma Blair made him a great company.
In conclusion we can only add that, of course, the film is not you'll be so brilliantly balanced script (because the prologue really too fleetingly passed and shipped literally after ten minutes with start in the depths of the main plot) and it to my opinion, unfinished and giving the misunderstanding of the epilogue are perhaps the main drawbacks of the film.
However, the view for interesting pastime; and, especially for an ardent fan of Nicolas cage, no doubt, mandatory. I am sure that every cinephile in the course preview with a delight to watch awesome game Nicolas cage and Selma Blair, and not exactly 'll remain indifferent from the start of the final titer.
PS love and appreciate your family
7 of 10
