Posted: April 21, 2016 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeff Nichols, Joel Edgerton, Kristen Dunst, Michael Shannon, Midnight Special, Mud, Sam Shepard, Shotgun Stories, St. Vincent, Take Shelter, The Confirmation | 7,592 Comments »
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Midnight Special, the new neo-noir/sci-fi film, opens at night with a throbbing music score backed by hypnotic drums. It grabs you by your neck and just won’t let go for the next ninety minutes. At first, the story seems to be about the abduction of a little boy, but it soon becomes clear that it’s much more complicated than that. The boy was adopted by the leader of a religious cult that makes its base in a private compound in Texas and the ones who have taken the boy from them is the boy’s biological father and the father’s closest friend.
So what is really going on and why do so many people treat this child as if the future of the human race depended on him? And why are the FBI after him as well?
Midnight Special is the sort of film every aspiring screenwriter, director and producer should be seeing, but I often suspect aren’t. It should be studied and emulated. That is, if you really want a future in the industry, whether your goal is the tent pole films of a major studio, or the more personal films that one sees on the independent circuit. Read the rest of this entry »
