A member of the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), she regularly contributes to RogerEbert.com, Variety and Time Out New York, with bylines in Filmmaker Magazine, Film Journal International, Vulture, The Playlist and The Wrap, among other outlets. Having been raised by a Jehovah’s Witness family who views mixing another person’s blood in their son’s body as toxic and morally wrong, Adam firmly mirrors his parents’ beliefs and declines the procedure, accepting his fate. But director Richard Eyre’s film still poses sophisticated questions around family, religion, marriage, law and the delicate boundaries that can or cannot be crossed in each institution. The religious metaphors are laid on a little thick by the end, but McEwan and Eyre aren’t out to make a definitive point about Fiona’s judgement, more to just marinate in the complicated, sometimes absurd, and very necessary moral world we’ve created for ourselves in modern society.
The film raises some intriguing questions about faith, morality, etc. Overwhelmed by the new possibilities of life, the now spiritually whole but religiously doubting Adam grows an infatuation towards Fiona; writes her profound letters and follows her around while she deals with her growing set of problems at home, intensified by the high-pressure rehearsals for an upcoming concert. She's assigned a tough case, a young man, raised as Jehova Witness refused a blood transfusion that will save his life. The Children Act stages the clumsiness of belated domestic confrontations with the very coldness that’s kept its characters from having discussed their emotions for decades and from having had sex for almost a year.
*Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. They more often act as the literal or figurative hands of fate, something for louder and far more cinematic lawyers to rail at or against. One of three McEwan adaptations this year (see elsewhere for my thoughts about one of the others, On Chesil Beach), The Children Act doesn’t really make an impression. Her behavior seemed unbelievable to me (especially considering the fact that we find that his parents actually are not opposed at all, we find, but only go through this entire legal process so they won't be held responsible by their religious group and be "disassociated"). Sophisticated and challenging, “The Children Act” continues this trend for filmgoers who would like to flex their intellectual muscles and engage with serious themes that don’t revolve around crudeness or kids in masks and spandex. Soon enough, another one of those extreme cases presents itself; one centered on the 17-year-old Adam (the terrific Fionn Whitehead of “Dunkirk”), who needs an urgent blood transfusion to survive his battle with leukemia. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.
and the Terms and Policies, Another Round, review: a sozzled Mads Mikkelsen turns day-drinking into an art, Think Dominic West is bad? The power of the film is diluted slightly by an insistence of adherence to the source but the fine performances shine through. Adapted by McEwan from his own novel and bolstered by an expressive performance by Emma Thompson (astounding even by her consistently high standards), “The Children Act” is perhaps a bit stilted in the overt way it sometimes attempts to spell out its arguments. As Fiona is about to embark on one of the most challenging cases of her career, Jack (Stanley Tucci) her neglected and increasingly frustrated husband, makes a shocking revelation, sending her into an emotional tailspin. That of a young man of firm religious conviction faced with a painful death unless he eschews his religious commitment. I loved the author's previous Atonement so this book was a real disappointment for me.
Filmmaker Richard Eyre delivers a slow-moving drama that ultimately works best as a showcase for three above-average performances... Emma Thompson once again proves she's our finest actress working today. For one thing, it didn't even seem consistent with a true religious belief...if they didn't think that God would see through this ploy, then it seems their religion did not mean much to them, yet they were supposed to live every moment in compliance otherwise and have raised this young man to be so zealous that he would also refuse the life-saving treatment? | Rating: 2.5/4 The film is carried through a lot of this by the sheer quality and watchability of Thompson’s performance. “We were surrounded by Secret Service and police and internal security.”.
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