Just finished watching this one and I don't know if I loved it or hated it.
Doing this review a bit different as I want to get everything off my chest now. Just don't hit the Spoiler buttons until after you've seen the movie.
Colin Farrell is a cardiologist who befriends a young teen, Martin, that shows a great interest in the field after his own father dies on Farrell's operating table. Colin has a perfect life with two perfect kids and a perfect wife in Nicole Kidman. He's wealthy, selfish, and spoiled to a point where he's careless. Martin's relationship with Farrell isn't as harmless as it seems though as he begins to amp up the stakes forcing Colin to make a choice no father/husband should ever have to make.
FYI, it takes 52 minutes to get to the point where the real plot begins. No joke.
Barry Keoghan is Martin and is creepy as fuck, but as perfectly cast as he is,
Kidman's character is pretty weird too. She shows off everything more than once (Great body to this day.) and seems to perhaps be a message about the weakness of men? Although, she also displays her own selfishness and weakness as well, and pretty much in the biggest possible way. Additionally, she seems to go back and forth between being a strong independent character and Colin's trophy. Her character arc is strange.
Speaking of sexual things, might as well mention Alicia Silverstone is in the movie as Martin's mother. There's also Colin's daughter, played by Raffey Cassidy (who looks a lot like Sophie Turner to me), , depending on the scene. Also, I had to confirm with Google that I was right to feel a bit gross about one of her scenes. (Yep. She's either 14 or 15 at the time this was made.) She's not nude and there's no sexual interaction, but still...
It's extremely well shot and the acting is outstanding, but it's very slow. It's also not a feel good movie. Hard to recommend because the story is so out there, but I was entertained.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”