Review of The Beaver (2011) by Daizy L — 10 Sep 2011
This movie takes the risk of asking hard question, then succeeds by not coming up with either pat or Hallmark answers. There is no easy answer to living with or being a depressed person and I was frankly amazed at the satisfying yet not schmaltzy ending.
Jodie Foster, director and star, stunningly portrayed a woman confused by what her husband has become and wants it all to go back to way things used to be....sans the Beaver...but we can never go back.
..we loose people, we get tangled up in blue, and then we become something else...and the movie sets up that premise right in the beginning. Mel Gibson was brilliant and for those people who refuse to see his films because of what he says A) while drunk or B) while having a supposedly private vicious argument with his lover, all I can say is--your loss.
This review of The Beaver (2011) was written by Daizy L on 10 Sep 2011.
The Beaver has generally received positive reviews.
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