In God They Trust: The Shammasian Bros. Skirt Exploitation in Brooding Character Study
There are certain subjects the mere presentation of which conjures overzealousness parameters and thus automatically ends up feeling exploitative. Curiously, the marketing for the long withheld sophomore film Retaliation from the UK’s Shammasian Brothers, Ludwig and Paul, seems to have taken a route which suggests a problematic approach to a sensitive subject, an adult survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest seeks vengeance on the man who caused the trauma decades later. Starring Orlando Bloom and premiering back in 2017 at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Shammasian’s have in fact crafted a rather somber, unexpectedly tasteful character study of a conflicted protagonist left all alone to grapple with his significant demons.…...
There are certain subjects the mere presentation of which conjures overzealousness parameters and thus automatically ends up feeling exploitative. Curiously, the marketing for the long withheld sophomore film Retaliation from the UK’s Shammasian Brothers, Ludwig and Paul, seems to have taken a route which suggests a problematic approach to a sensitive subject, an adult survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest seeks vengeance on the man who caused the trauma decades later. Starring Orlando Bloom and premiering back in 2017 at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Shammasian’s have in fact crafted a rather somber, unexpectedly tasteful character study of a conflicted protagonist left all alone to grapple with his significant demons.…...
- 8/4/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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