Review of Peacock (2005) by Daniel D — 25 Apr 2012
Cilian Murphy put in such a good performance in this film that, to this day, I still find myself thinking about how deeply disturbed his character was, and how well he translated the collision of two different emotional oceans within one person in one performance.
When something can worm into my brain that deeply, I think that has to mean there was some real art being made there, which has been made, which exists in this movie. Its major flaw is that the disturbed mentalities and situations presented in this film aren't a distraction from the already-despairing-enough realities of our livesâ"it's more disturbing matter to pile on our vast disturbation.
BUT, there are some lovers of art who aren't afraidâ"who are emboldened, even, with a rather pioneering spiritâ"when they challenge themselves to, in the words of Franz Kafka, "dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
" There are truths in the ups as well as the downs: most audiences just want the up-truths; this movie's got the market cornered on some of the down-truths.
This review of Peacock (2005) was written by Daniel D on 25 Apr 2012.
Peacock has generally received positive reviews.
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