Stillwater reviewed by Anna Bogutskaya
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Anna Bogutskaya reviews Stillwater. A father travels from the United States to France after his estranged daughter is imprisoned for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
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Just watched this film today. It was amazing! The characters were so well done
Yes but it does get resolved very quickly in the last 15 mins.
Except for some similar plot points, the story really has nothing to do with the Amanda Knox case. Speaking of plot, it does go off the rails somewhat in the third act, but it still maintains its emotional core and overall credibility by never wavering from its unflinching examination of both the Damon and Breslin characters' basic integrity. Not a great film, but the acting is first-rate and it's certainly worthwhile.
Two points about the review:
1. Bill's daughter isn't accused of murdering another foreign student, but a local girl from Marseille, who was her girlfriend.
2. The review makes it sound like the film is this serious, ponderous, dour, deep watch and forgets to mention how surprisingly genuinely funny the film is.
I can only see Damon turning into Bourne and breaking his daughter out of jail...
Great film, but did anyone else feel like there were a ton of nods to the Bourne Identity? There's one shot where his daughter is floating in the water that seemed pretty deliberate to me, and then a whole lot of other shots where I'm not sure if it was deliberate or it was just because Matt Damon had his rucksack on one shoulder.
Bruce Willis was an oil rig worker in "Armageddon" and he saved the planet from an asteroid. So Matt Damon will save his daughter from France.
Finally got around to watching it and I liked it way much then I thought I would, but I can understand why it rubbed Amanda Knox, who is “an inspiration” for it, the wrong way. The problem is in the ambiguity of the story - it borrows a lot from the real life case, but does not address the real ugly parts of it at all, instead making it’s own points about human relationships. In itself it’s great, but Amanda Knox case was not about that at all, it was about misogyny, quality of police work and judicial system and the media coverage. The movie only heavily addresses racism (and accurately so), but only touches lightly upon the rest, which can be really frustrating for someone who lived through it all.
Its nice to get a different perspective aside from Mark's the odd time. Very insightful review.
Great review. I think I spotted a major blunder in the plot, almost nonsensical. At the end, the local police use the lock of hair of Hakin (the one Matt Damon gives to the former cop), to link the unidentified NDA found in the murder scene to a unsolved robbery occured a few years ago. (A robbery commited by Hakin). So...if the police already had Hakin's DNA from the robbery, how come they didnt match to the NDA found in the murder scene?
He was never caught fot the two crimes so they had two unsolved cases murder and a robbery both with a XDNA sample, but when they finally got a piece of Hakim they found that this person has something to do with the two cases so they reopened them…
Great film review. Love the boys but engaging team here as well. Edith getting Anna involved and afterwards you do feel you want to check it out for good or ill. Super job ladies.
Good review, well articulated.
Weird that Bourne forgot french and its familiarity with the streets as he’s been in an out since 2002.
Ah, but you see… you forgot about his amnesia…
This film isn't anything to do with Almost Famous! Zero stars.
matt damon
Great review Anna. 👍🌻
Anna great film review, Kermode you have met your match!
Match? I didn't know film criticism was a competition.
@@OtisF96 okay. I won't
I found the movie painful and unbelievable in many ways. The movie was obviously based upon the Amanda Knox story, but then flies off the rails with tortured story lines that make no sense. When Bill gives his daughter's letter to the lawyer, the lawyer just blows it off. Unbelievable! When Bill lies to his daughter that her lawyer was going to investigate the information in the letter, I was stunned. Unbelievable! When Bill sees Akim on the street drinking with friends, I thought Bill would collect the soda can and give it to the detective for DNA analysis. That at least would have been believable, but instead, Bill knocks out Akim, kidnaps him and holds him in a basement! Unbelievable! I did like the twist about the neckless. That was a nice touch.
Overall, I think this movie was made just so the crew could spend a few weeks partying in Marseille.
exactly what i thought about the dna! but i guess he didn't want him to disappear.....🤷🏾♂️but in the end the real culprit wasn't even needed, just reasonable doubt...so he didn't have to keep Akeem, just needed the dna....😞
@@DannyOmu reasonable doubt was what the family needed to free Allison, but the murdered girl deserved justice. The movie actually did not address this and I’m pretty sure the father was not focused on that at all, but I really wanted the actual murderer to be handed over to police, even if it hindered Allison’s case. It was upsetting that he was set free, but I don’t consider it a flaw script-wise, I liked the twist.
This file would greatly benefit from having about an hour cut from it. By the time the pace picked up I was praying for the end to come.
This file? Oh, this film. For a moment I thought you were suggesting to cut an hour from this review.
Good review. 👍
I really enjoyed the movie.
Just watched this film. It was decent enough, Damon was very good in it, but I just didn’t fully buy him, I feel Josh Brolin might have been a better fit for the role.
Imo, Josh Brolin is a bit too handsome to pass for an unremarkable everyman. I don’t mean it as a jab at Brolin, but I don’t think he would feel as genuine in this role as Matt Damon.
Edith is great. Love how she has watched every film being reviewed.
No doubt she makes the effort because she only covers the holidays, but great to see the back and forth
I thought it was great until the third act.
anna I would like to buy you an oat latte sometime
The performance are good. The movie is good. But it is a little too long.
So the trailer is misleading everyone again.
Couldn't tell if it Matt Damon or Leo Dicarpo.
Bogutskaya is possibly the only female stand-in for Mark and Simon that I can listen to, and makes some eloquent points. Edith -- I'm sorry I know she tries hard but -- I've never heard a perceptive interjection from her.
Kermode and Mayo have taken this binary stuff a bit too far!!
What? They're not even on the show this week.
Stillwater - the film where google translate and smartphones dont exist
So we cut past interesting scenes because of the smart phone? It’s a good point? Another thing ruined by smartphones? Lol I don’t know
Foxy Knoxy.