A bleak, slow burn thriller about a man with rage issues who's pushed to the brink when he finds out his wife -- who he's temporarily separated from -- is in a relationship with another man.
She's not cheating on him, exactly, because their mutual arrangement allowed for them to see other people. But he's not as into the separation as she is, and his sense of failure, as a husband and father, threatens to come to a boil. The best and cringiest scenes of the film are those between the dad and his teenage daughter, while a confrontation with his wife's boyfriend late in the movie sends the film teetering a bit into overwrought melodrama.
The ending, which looks like a happy one on paper, is actually deeply unsettling when you let it sink in.
And this movie isn't going to help change anybody's mind about rural America being a dismal, depressing place to live, where aggressive white men who don't know what to do with their anger and America's gun culture make for a volatile stew.
Grade: B+
She's not cheating on him, exactly, because their mutual arrangement allowed for them to see other people. But he's not as into the separation as she is, and his sense of failure, as a husband and father, threatens to come to a boil. The best and cringiest scenes of the film are those between the dad and his teenage daughter, while a confrontation with his wife's boyfriend late in the movie sends the film teetering a bit into overwrought melodrama.
The ending, which looks like a happy one on paper, is actually deeply unsettling when you let it sink in.
And this movie isn't going to help change anybody's mind about rural America being a dismal, depressing place to live, where aggressive white men who don't know what to do with their anger and America's gun culture make for a volatile stew.
Grade: B+