Nocturnal Animals,
based on the novel by Austin Wright, written and directed by Tom Ford
Nocturnal Animals was nominated for a series of
important awards and has won sixteen prizes…
This is a story within a story, presented with
grace, in a stylish manner by the fashion designer…
Who is also a writer and a director
Tom Ford!
The splendid Amy Adams is Susan Morrow in this
film
In “real life”, she is married to Armie Hammer-
wonderful this year in Call Me By Your Name-aka Hutton Morrow.
One night, as Amy calls her husband who is away
on business, he keeps talking about his busy day.
We see him in the company of an attractive,
young woman who climbs to his hotel room, late in the night.
While on the cellular phone with his wife,
Hutton tells the elevator attendant to press the floor number.
As they reach the said floor, the man in the
lift gives the game away:
31st miss…
There is a long pause because Susan
understood what is going on.
However,
the main show takes place in the book given to her by her ex-husband, Jake
Gyllenhaal.
The excellent actor plays two personages:
Tony Hastings and Edward
Sheffield.
The
former is the ex-husband who wrote Nocturnal Animals, dedicated to his former
wife…Susan.
He used to call her a Nocturnal Animal, because
she seldom sleeps…at times, she gets no sleep at all.
In the book, Edward is driving his wife, Laura,
and their daughter, India- what a beautiful name.
While on the road in Texas, hoodlums start
creating trouble, tail gating and finally pushing the family off the road.
The villains claim they are the injured party
and they want Edward to admit to that and face consequences.
They talk about the flat tire and they offer to
help, only to kidnap the mother and daughter and force Edward to drive another
car.
One of the brutes takes the demolished man into
the wilderness and abandons him there, returning with the leader of the gang.
Ray is a disgusting red neck, with a very violent
nature and murderous instincts that determine the fate of India and Laura.
Near the middle of the film, we learn that they
are brutally raped and killed, with the daughter suffering worse than her mother
does.
The unique Michael Shannon- nominated for an
Oscar for this performance- aka Bobby Andes is in charge of the investigation
Nevertheless, this interesting thriller is not
just about making the killers pay for their abominable crime.
It is probably more about the remorse that will
haunt Edward for not having tried to do more to save his family.
Granted, it is difficult to play the
game of what if and chances are that he could not change the outcome of the
horrible murders.
The only thing left now is to either
forgive and move on or search for revenge, a payback that may be on offer.
Bobby Andes suffers from cancer and
he only has one more year to live, hence he has nothing to lose.
He wants justice to be done in this
case…
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