Straight Edge Life

From imdb: A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician (Penn), a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro).

I didn’t know Penn was playing a mathematician. It’s not important I guess. But I guess I can understand why they included it in their plot outline. As far as “plot” goes, this is pretty accurate. Because this movie doesn’t really have a plot. It’s a movie about intense physical acting. It’s about emotion and transition and collision above and beyond any plot. Above any story. It’s about storytelling.

You go and see this movie and you may or may not even care about plot, but you’ll care about the characters. You’ll watch the inevitable approach of chrusing pain and feel for those on the sharp end of the knife. Not many movies do this to me. And it’s taken me a couple of weeks to find out how to put all of this into words. It’s a good movie.

And if I do say so, Naomi Watts deserves high credit for her performance in this movie. As does Benico Del Toro and Penn. But Watts especially.