Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) by Nickthecritick — 01 May 2022
Joe is a war veteran who has also survived many other battles. At home only his elderly and sick mother awaits him, with whom he has a relationship of great affection and patience. In a desolate New York full of secrets, whose noble profile always remains in the distance, Joe works as a mercenary for those who want to get rid of dangerous enemies but do not have the skill or the courage.
His latest assignment is to rescue Nina, the pre-adolescent daughter of a local politician, from a child prostitution ring: an abused and offended creature who mirrors the man's past. Joe appears and disappears, often armed with a hammer, as if he had never been there, slashing and chasing with the same hallucinated intensity the devastating memories, both of his childhood at the mercy of a sadistic father, and of the war crimes committed behind him.
the justification of a uniform. Joe's is a universe of lost children raised at the mercy of orcs and often become like them, a world in which man moves like an executioner, trying to patch up his life reduced to a puzzle of sensations and bad memories.
Truly wonderful film and full of anguish this film by Lynne Ramsay, which tells a story already seen but always does it by putting the camera in the right place at the right time. An extraordinary performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
This review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) was written by Nickthecritick on 01 May 2022.
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