Thursday, September 26, 2013

Blue Ruin

Revenge can be sweet.  Revenge can be cold.  Revenge can be tasty.  In the case of Blue Ruin, revenge is senseless.  Dwight is a ruined man, devastated by violence against his family, wasting away his life as a drifter.  When the killer is released from prison, Dwight embarks on a homecoming of sorts for revenge.  Things immediately go awry when he neglects to consider that even the killer, too, has a family...

This film exemplarizes the pointlessness of revenge.  I appreciated it.

Blue Ruin
2013, 92 minutes, directed by Jeremy Saulnier

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