After a year, Bobby manages to arrest Lou. Detective Bobby Andes (Michael Shannon) is assigned the case and they find Laura and India abandoned near a shack after being raped and cruelly murdered. After hitchhiking all night, Edward reaches the police in the morning. During the commotion, Ray (Aaron-Taylor Johnson) and Steve drives off with Laura and India while Lou forces Tony to drive the other car into the desert and leaves him there. During the night drive through somewhere isolated in West Texas, the family is being troubled by a gang of three men in a car, Ray Marcus, Lou and Steve Adams. Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal), his wife Laura and daughter India are driving to Marfa, Texas. The novel begins with a family road trip. The story of the novel, which is the second plot, is unraveled when Susan reads it. The package is a manuscript of his novel. In the main story-line, we follow Susan ( Amy Adams), an art gallery owner, who receives a package from her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal).
The seemingly unrelated plots have lots of correlations between them.
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It won't be a movie that'll appeal to everyone - it's a bit too dark and intense for that (and that opening credits scene though lol) - but for anyone interested in psychological thrillers, it's a must-watch.There are two different plots in the movie. Really well-done from a technical perspective as well, with some excellent cinematography and a beautiful soundtrack. Never thought he could pull off a disgusting psychopath character so well. Jake and Michael Shannon are excellent, as per usual, as is Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Amy Adams surprisingly wasn't as prominent as I thought she would be, given that she's the top billed actress but she was still great. In fact, the novel story was considerably more interesting than the "real" one - which I suppose was probably the point, showing how, for as much of a fancy, stylish life that Susan wanted, her existence is rather mundane and miserable.Īcting was fantastic all around. One of the tensest scenes I've seen in a while and totally made me forget that it's "fictional" in the world of the movie. Special shout-out to that opening scene of the novel on the highway - holy shit, that was nerve-wracking and hard to watch. Their messy breakup turns them into completely different people than who they thought they were - just really well done storytelling. It's a brilliant callback to when Susan claims that she's a pragmatic and cynical realist, while Edward is the hopeless romantic with his head in the clouds. I loved the contrast of the world of the novel, which felt grimy, raw and real, and Susan's "real" world, which had this strange artificial, fake vibe to it. "Enjoyable" is probably the wrong word because it's a thoroughly unnerving and bleak experience but it really was quite powerful. Really found it to be an excellent piece of cinema. But Jake Gylenhaal, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon = must watch.
Didn't really know much about it other than the fact that it was one of those "story within a story" narratives. Man, this one is definitely gonna stick with me for a while.
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