An American Crime

Camryn 2022-03-21 09:03:19

I wanted to see this movie for a long time, but it didn't arrive, so I only saw it last night.

It was quite shocking, I was very depressed when I watched it, a little crazy, and my heartbeat kept accelerating.

I feel that the reason why the film is so oppressive is that the important point is that the film never breaks out of hysteria, but is unusually calm, a kind of abnormal rationality. This kind of abnormal emotion is presented in the movie, but it is magnified in your heart to the point of distortion and struggle.

Looking back on life, we are just walking in such a siege, unable to escape some kind of entanglement with human nature. After watching the movie, I feel the powerlessness of the individual more deeply. It seems that we can never escape, and we are just drifting in a chain.

And some things are inescapable, all we have to do is to go far beyond, to cross at a transcendent height, and look down calmly.

So, we look down, we go beyond...

In addition, the acting skills of the actors in the film are amazing. And Catherine Keener is even more unsurpassable. She is stunned, stunned, and can be freely retracted, wandering between the sins of mother's love in her heart.

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An American Crime quotes

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.