Interesting jumble of social messages in Adoration
Adoration is a great movie, directed by Atom Egoyan. This movie highlights the various facades of terrorism. The role of technology and ethics governing the act of terrorism post 9/11 are depicted brilliantly in this movie.
The provocative ideas and lofty, ambitious social message comes packaged in a fascinating muddle. The story is all about Tom, the high schooler who is troubled by the legacy of his dead parents. He is instigated by his teacher Sabine, to act the part of the hitherto grown child of a pregnancy girlfriend who was betrayed by her boyfriend as she embarks on a journey to Israel.
The betrayed girlfriend is taken by surprise as she is stopped by the security agents. Tom imagines himself to be the child born to that woman and writes down on paper his feelings even as Sabine is narrating this story to her students.
Sabine is able to convince Tom to take his musings further and airs them on the video chat sessions on the Internet. There are myriad reactions on this both by Tom's classmates and other people from around the world. The long winding reactions make one wonder whether people have anything to do other than commenting on video chats.
As a deviation from Egoyan's intrigue with potential uses and abuses of the technology, a dramatic twist is added to the plot in the form of Sabine's visit to Tom's uncle in a bid to unravel the mystery of Tom's parents. The number of concerns and ideas that Egoyan touches upon is commendable. See Egoyan's great effort - download Adoration for free.
The role of Simone is played by Khanjian with a passion as she gives myriad speeches in her role as a talkative professor. Character of Tom is just a pawn in the grandiose setting. As an inquisitive student Bostick has done a good job asking too many questions. The character of the highly misunderstood dad Jenkin is portrayed very well and the roles of Speedman and Blanchard is subtle and effective. Technicalities are handled well too with Paul Sarossy's skilful underlit lensing adding to the excellent ambience and mood of the settings. Editing is also managed in a professional manner by Editor Susan Shipton. - 23815
The provocative ideas and lofty, ambitious social message comes packaged in a fascinating muddle. The story is all about Tom, the high schooler who is troubled by the legacy of his dead parents. He is instigated by his teacher Sabine, to act the part of the hitherto grown child of a pregnancy girlfriend who was betrayed by her boyfriend as she embarks on a journey to Israel.
The betrayed girlfriend is taken by surprise as she is stopped by the security agents. Tom imagines himself to be the child born to that woman and writes down on paper his feelings even as Sabine is narrating this story to her students.
Sabine is able to convince Tom to take his musings further and airs them on the video chat sessions on the Internet. There are myriad reactions on this both by Tom's classmates and other people from around the world. The long winding reactions make one wonder whether people have anything to do other than commenting on video chats.
As a deviation from Egoyan's intrigue with potential uses and abuses of the technology, a dramatic twist is added to the plot in the form of Sabine's visit to Tom's uncle in a bid to unravel the mystery of Tom's parents. The number of concerns and ideas that Egoyan touches upon is commendable. See Egoyan's great effort - download Adoration for free.
The role of Simone is played by Khanjian with a passion as she gives myriad speeches in her role as a talkative professor. Character of Tom is just a pawn in the grandiose setting. As an inquisitive student Bostick has done a good job asking too many questions. The character of the highly misunderstood dad Jenkin is portrayed very well and the roles of Speedman and Blanchard is subtle and effective. Technicalities are handled well too with Paul Sarossy's skilful underlit lensing adding to the excellent ambience and mood of the settings. Editing is also managed in a professional manner by Editor Susan Shipton. - 23815
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