Review of Nocturnal Animals

It is always best if you do not read anything about a movie or watch any trailers and go right into it without any expectations. You will have an experience of a lifetime if the movie is well crafted. Though horrific and violent, cinematography is visually stunning and shot in style, quiet crafty to add. Events that occur in the course of time is depicted well with the use of darkness and color to explain the mood of a particular sequence or a scene. I felt a sense of apprehension and uneasiness when edward's wife and daughter are captured by nefarious bunch of crooks. It seemed very real and did not feel like edward was narrating it as part of his fictional novel. Narration lacked clarity and seemed flawed since the script tried to draw a comparison between the gruesome events that unfolded in fictional novel and the writer's pain endured due to failed relationship. It seemed completely unfair and imbalanced to create an analogy of a painful relationship with murder, rape of a teenage girl and her mother. Acting was top notch as always from michael shannon, jake gyllenhal and amy adams. The ending scene when jakes character walks outdoor with blood smeared on his face after shooting his family's murderer seems distinctly similar to the climax sequence in the prisoners.