Review of Brooklyn (2015) by Contii — 18 Feb 2016

A mediocre film carried by the outstanding performance of Saoirse Ronan. The film tackled the common and unoriginal theme of the classic struggle of home versus heritage. Brooklyn comprised of a plot viewers have seen many times before only this time with the setting of an Irish woman immigrating to America post World War 2.

To me, the plot was rushed, taking a story being told over a span of a year and a half or longer and cramming it into 1 hour and 56 minutes. Some films have demonstrated that a movie can have a plot that spans over a year or longer such as Forrest Gump or Aviator.

Sadly, this movie could not largely due to the poor directorial and screenplay works by John Crowley and Nick Hornby. A powerful performance by Ronan however who was able to take the lackluster screenplay of the film and turn it into such a powerful performance and a well deserved Oscar nomination.