"The absolute authority and force of Daniel Day-Lewis carries this movie in the end, and what a pleasure to see his return to the screen. Without him, though, it might have been harder to take this film's rather redundant, laborious dramatic gestures and its macho-sensitive narcissism. Even with Day-Lewis, in fact, there are tricky moments in the dialogue, and at the end of each of the two big speeches you might imagine a drama teacher saying: and scene! Yet Day-Lewis's"
"He is supposed to be playing a former army sergeant here. I'd put his rank higher than that. It is a movie that Day-Lewis co-wrote with his son Ronan, who also directs. It's about a father coming to terms with his neglect of his son. We must make of that what we will. Day-Lewis plays Ray, a man living an ascetic, hermit existence in a remote forest hut somewhere near the coast in Britain in the late 1990s, radiating angry integrity and self-reliance,"
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a dominant, watchable performance as Ray, a reclusive former soldier living in a remote coastal forest hut and cultivating his father's anemones. Ray's estranged brother Jem brings Ray back to a family he abandoned: wife Nessa and teenage son Brian, who has joined the army and faces violent trouble. The film, co-written by Day-Lewis and directed by his son Ronan, centers on confronting past abuse, the reasons for Ray's military exit in Northern Ireland, and the need to expunge toxic masculinity and heal familial neglect. The drama is uneven, with laborious gestures and occasionally awkward dialogue.
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