The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
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Dreadfully Boring
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
While the film began, I was fascinated by the camera moving, the angle of camera, still pictures and freeze frame of its own. Just like enjoy the magical moment that every ordinary scene came into the ridiculous irony. It is a film about one kind of compensation, revenge and sacrifice. At first, Martin wanted the compensation from Steven, and what he wanted mostly was a substitute of a father. But it was in vain. Next, Martin cursed the Murphy family. It is his revenge. Lastly, the curse developed into the sacrifice. Steven had to kill one person to save the other's life. He had to do that. I wonder that the most sacred sacrifice is killing, because depriving one's life is the utmost punishment to human beings and the pleasant behavior for worshiping God. All the metaphors and the arrangements in this film made me think twice and feel interesting. That's why I subjectively liked it. So I gave it 10/10.
This movie I had high hopes for given the actors but it was just strange and didn't make a lot of sense. First off....are there really families like this? They seem cold and detached. Secondly why would you not call the police???? Why would you sacrifice your own child?? UNREALISTIC!!! Don't waste your time.
No purpose. Move along. There is no way this rating adds up. All the other ratings are 1s and 2s as they should be.
Not since Mother! has a director dared to be so inventive. But the risky choice to have the cast remove practically all emotion from their performance sucks the life out of the work. It is so disgustingly vulgar I would have walked out had I seen it in theaters. The choice of style also demands that the characters behave irrationally. Which some will likely have a problem with. But at the heart of the films issue is a total lack of empathy. A person can't be expected to feel for a character who has no emotion. The story takes place in a land of soulless robots and is void of substance. However, I would like to see more from this director. If he hones his craft and corrects his mistakes his future works could very well be masterpieces.