Movie Summary of Adoration by Michael The Moviegoer.
ADORATION = **
“Delusions Of Terror”
Atom Egoyan is often drawn to stories about life after death. But not in the spiritual sense. He likes to examine the lives of those affected by tragic death. How they cope. How they move on. In his greatest work, 1997’s “The Sweet Hereafter”, Egoyan focuses on the lives of people in a small town who’s children have all died in a tragic school bus accident. In his latest film “Adoration”, he deals with a teenager who claims his father was a terrorist who used his wife to blow up an airliner. But it’s never clear if the boy is telling the truth.
Are we meant to be confused by this? Should this sort of trickery be used as a gimmick in a post-9/11 world? Whatever your feelings are on the subject, the film is somewhat of a bore. It will likely incite snores rather than roars. The jigsaw puzzle editing that worked so well in ‘Hereafter’ here just feels like a disjointed mess.
“Adoration” is beautifully photographed, and the cast do their best to play ball, but despite some good dramatic moments out of context, the final result will leave many people scratching their heads.
DVD Watch: The best film ever made about terrorists and airplanes is “United 93”, Paul Greengrass’ extraordinary dramatization of the events that took place on 9/11. The story is told as a matter-of-fact detailing of that tragic day, without any political preaching. Sad, tragic and disturbing, even though we know how it will end, the film has the feel of a taut, suspenseful thriller. If this film were a work of fiction, it would have been turned into an amusement park ride by now! I say that only because many people avoided ths film fearing it was a documentary. It’s not. It strangely works as an entertaining action movie, except that the bad guys win. Perhaps that’s why they couldn’t call it “Airport 2001”!
Michael The Moviegoer
