Ignorant Movie Review: Red Road

Response to title: Red rum, red rum, red rum! And red = passion & deceipt.

Response to curbside poster: I forgot to look again, which worked out well as the image is littered with high praise.

Response post-credits: I am so glad we Olympians have something like the O.F.S. to bring us movies like this, what a masterpiece. Andrea Arnold takes what should merely be a cinematically beautiful drama and so artfully applies the elements of suspense that the audience is led through a series of paradigm shifts in the space of 113 minutes. The first clue of this impending and forceful transplant is immediately given in the opening credits as we are uprooted from our own temporality and brought to watch Glascow unfold itself into humanity. Not once did I feel like it let go of me, rather, at the end I only wanted to see it again.

The title holds true as red is everywhere, but other colors provide us equal insight into the film's subject. Notice how often strong colors overlay a stark white background; white being the symbolic color of purity and innocense these colors represent the mutable reality of a tabula rasa and mimic the audience's ever increasing pool of insight. Notice too the physical manifestations of these symbolic colors and their placement in the narrative: passion, deceipt, despair, guilt, anguish, acceptance, etc. Nothing feels unintended, and everything is in the details.

This is a breathtaking film and I encourage everyone to go see it at the Capitol Theater.

Rating: 4.85 out of 5 Oly Stubbies.

Film Haiku: Branches and a log
release their subject in fits

"Manuel Marcus".