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The Widowers (2014)
"The Widowers" is a Wonderful Surprise!
Superbly acted, well-written, and directed with a sober-but-humorously tender eye and heart, "The Widowers" is a wonderful surprise from start to finish. Grief counseling is a tough subject to make funny, but these filmmakers do it - and in the process they also manage to make a touching and enlightened (as well as enlightening) film, as well. Director Jonathan Scott Chin and writer Richard Lovejoy are a talented pair to keep an eye on in the future. Lovejoy also delivers a lovely, understated lead performance (as does co-star Kent Meister), and the supporting players all vy to steal the movie away from each other (especially the hilarious Jennifer Laine Williams and Ryan Andes). This is highly recommended independent cinema at its finest.
Elephant (2003)
Necessary film. I've read other comments--you don't get it.
We teach (and reward) apathy. Emotional abandonment is the norm today. Face it. We have no role models. We do not learn how to love from anyone. We learn two things: apathy and hate. This film tells that ugly truth. Many filmgoers can't handle that fact, because it is not dressed up in a formulaic film style that we've become accustomed to. Instead, we are left to do the math. I think it's both necessary and brilliant.