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I have never written a review in my life but felt I had to here. Michael Shannon…and this guy has not won an Oscar why?? Movie was excellent but this guy is incredible! Also the first time I have binged watched an actor. I went from Midnight Special to about 5 other of his movies all weekend. Took me a few movies in to realize this was the same guy from Iceman and Superman. His presence onscreen just sucks you into all his characters. He literally steals every scene he is in. “There is a STOOORM’ C’MING!”. .. I reached that scene about 3 times. Probably one of the best actors of our generation and not many people even know who he is, which is probably a testament to how good he is. He is like the Steven Spielberg of actors. Every movie he is in was amazing. Then you realize HE makes every movie he is in amazing. Anyway, let me get off this guys nuts, and go back to watching some more of his movies.- Hopps
No, despite the claim of other reviewers, he is not “disturbed,” any more than Richard Dreyfus was disturbed in Close Encounters. He is “disturbed” if you presume he’s hallucinating.. We are privy to what he sees, as is his young daughter, but we are not just sharing his hallucinations. Nickols’ challenge is whether we have the strength of our convictions, like Curtis, in the face of a consensus that says we’re hallucinating. Will we say, “Well, I saw it, but since no one else saw it, my reality has been voted down, so I didn’t see it.” Is reality contingent on consensus? That’s what Nickols is asking here. By the way, delusion and hallucination are often conflated. Delusion is logic based on a fantasy. I’m behaving quite rationally if it’s true that the FBI has implanted an RF chip in my cranium. Hallucination is a sensory mistake. I’m confusing my dream state with my waking state, or I’m seeing Banquo at the dinner table. I think Nickols means us to know, in the end, that Curtis is not nuts.
I agree that this is a masterpiece, and that 4 stars is woefully short. One could bookend this movie with Jeff Nichols’ latest, Midnight Special. See both and you’ll understand why.- Jack Rice
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon
Directors: Jeff Nichols
Writers: Jeff Nichols
Producers: Adam Wilkins, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Chris Perot, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Colin Strause
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: February 14, 2012
Run Time: 120 minutes
