Young Adam

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Dave C A slow-burner, focused on the plodding aspects of industrial living, and the easy philandering of amoral characters, bored of their daily lot, seeking excitement in risks taken. The initially cool and amoral character, Adam, builds as we learn more about him, revealing an immoral, selfish, narcissistic and abusive person seemingly content moping, meandering, and moving around from one episode of sexual promiscuity to another. At the core of the story is an 'accident' that occurs with one of his previous partners, and the indifference he feels about what happened, gradually shifting to guilt and doubt as the fate of the accused unfolds. As we might expect, he dresses his cowardice and shame as something courageous and honest, but this has no impact on the outcome, and he defaults to his nomadic philandering and disappears after one more brief reflection Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/08/24 Full Review Gareth v A sluggish and grim movie that has a decent story to tell but gets lost amongst all the removing of clothes. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/20/23 Full Review peter s Not a movie as much as a suite of obsessive fantasies that are raw, crude and sexual in nature from a sadist. Disgusting and useless piece of dirt by a sad and dirty director. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Definitely didn't rile me up as much as I suspected it would. McGregor and Swinton are pretty sharp as usual and the film does exude the atmosphere of seaside Scotland. Those attributes carry the project. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review thomas l Strong performances from all four leads, does not offset an unsettling storyline with a disappointing ending that more closely mirrors the reality of today's society than anything Hollywood could come up with. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This was a hard movie to watch. Other than the boy I don't know that there was on character you cared even a little bit about. The characters were all pretty disgusting. It was about 90 minutes but seemed so much longer. So why did I watch it? David Mackenzie, the director, did one of the year's best flims, Hell or High Water. This is the third movie of his I watched and it is interesting to see how he has evolved. Again I thankful for rental dvd Netflix who has such a catalog of movies. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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