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The Nightingale (2018)
Knowing full well that, at its core, this is an extremely brutal film to watch and, even steeling myself, it still was an emotionally harrowing ordeal to get through.
In fact, this has been THE hardest of @pahaK nominated films that I've experienced to date.
BUT, it is also thoroughly worth it. As a pahaK film usually is. Due to the prose and beauty to be discovered beneath the off-putting subject matter.
In this instance, it is the raw violence that remains a permanent, horrifying entity all it's own; there remains, though ofttimes dwindling, an exquisite light whose fragility is also it's conviction. Propelling our central characters forward. Even when they are unable to do so of their own accord.
A heart wrenching tale of senseless violence and the struggle for retribution that delves far, far deeper into who and what we are, in the most visceral sense. While giving a microscopic peek at what we could be. And should be.
Nowhere near the kind of film I enjoy, but one I truly applaud.
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- This is one of those films where I liked it on first viewing but I feel like watching it again might actually make me dislike it, but that's pretentious existentialism for you.
Last edited by edarsenal; 01-20-21 at 11:35 PM.
