The Savages – 2007
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hofmann, Philip Bosco
Rating: 
As cheerless and gloomy as it may seem, still the experiment is so genuine and true. This movie depicts a dark, deeply sorrowful, life reckoning experience.
Those of you who have already gone through such will intensely reminisce with it in an either far less distressing aspect or a much painful one. And those who still are yet to familiarize when one of life’s unwelcomed pop quizzes may not like watching…
The movie follows the story of the separate lives of two siblings; John & Wendy Savage after the sudden phone call they receive about their helplessly sick father and the journey of sorrow & owe they are about to embark.
Both Savages are kind-hearted and humbly talented Drama Experts, literally and metaphorically, with a grayish slack view of life and their inner-selves. Unexpected feelings open up to the unexpected call they receive reinventing their ill-fated childhood memories of a dysfunctional broken family where the mother was out of the picture and the father was ruthlessly in it… a situation that’s so common in occurrence and uncommon in consequences.
The movie transfers a feel of their pasts through the unbalanced side of the Savages’ personalities. However, the main purpose here is how they will deal with what they have in hand… How they will redirect their lives to revolve it around their dying father who was never around.
Wendy’s feelings rise up to surface where she is on the edge of her breakdown for how awful she felt for leaving her father behind, while John’s emotions secretly embellish through wisely embedded hints offered to the eye of the beholder by the director, Tamara Jenkins. Jenkins was never interested in the colorful shades of life. Instead, she was always keen to portray human endures of life’s unfortunate encounters… more like speaking for the less likely to stand out in life.
The movie redirects unlikely feelings to a better place, where hatred and blame is out of the picture; a lesson to be taught through the eyes of John and Wendy for when it came to the end of it… all they had for the Once-Hateful-Then-Helpless father was Love!
Jenkins’s choice of such a touchy and passive subject wasn’t the only acknowledgeable act that made the movie seem so meaningful. The choice of the talented appearances of Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman tied up the links for a one fine movie!
A movie about not only one, but several emotional ventures life will put out to you… so I’d refer to this emotional package as a must watch…
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