Nightingale

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01/13/2020 Disturbing. Fabulous performance. Feel shaken. See more 03/02/2018 David Oyelowo is superb! See more 02/19/2018 stellar acting solo seemed like theater See more 02/09/2017 An interesting film set in one house with one actor. David Oyelowo gives such a powerful performance here, an actor to watch out for. Even though I found it interesting I didn't love it, you can tell that it is based upon a play it just has that feel. See more 12/31/2016 I have worked in an early childhood classroom as an assistant teacher. In these situations it is good if everyone works together. Yet there is often someone who wants, and can easily get, attention by being silly. He, I think it is usually a he, will draw others to him by his silliness and can, of allowed, become a really controlling factor in the room. We like the novel, something different, someone shaking things up and the people who can provide this get attention and are held in some sort of esteem by the group. I open with this because I'm thinking about mass entertainment and wondering if having the class clown or the one presenting something novel, or out of the ordinary, get center stage is, in the long run, a good thing generally. Because this is the situation with mass entertainment, where corporations seeking profit through attention have presented us with endless numbers of class clowns, constant killers, psychos, power junkies. Their stories are the ones we watch, the ones that are interesting, exciting, riveting. I don't really know what the world felt like before mass motion picture entertainment, How many murders, or murderers did people see in olden times when maybe a theater troupe came through town and maybe we got out to see what they had to offer once a week, or month, or year. Now they are there daily, nightly, constantly. This type on mass electronic entertainment is a very new thing in human evolution. Nightingale takes us to the extreme again. Here we have a solo movie about a very isolated man who has murdered his mother in the house in which they live. I'm not spoiling here, that is how the thing starts, he has already murdered his mother before we join him, before we invite him into our living room as he rides in via a trillion dollar entertainment corporation electronic infrastructure. This is a solo acting piece with actor David Oyelowo. He has, as I said, killed his mother and he talks and talks. He gets to talk out loud a lot of the time because he is using webcams recording video that he is either uploading to youtube, or not, they never make that totally clear until the end where he refers to people's comments on presumably his earlier uploaded videos. Anyway, he is a sad lonely man and he falls more apart during the 83 minute running time of this thing. His one ray of hope is that his old army buddy will show up for a special dinner, someone he is clearly in love with. This night turns into Charlie Chaplin on a Gold Rush New Year's Eve but instead of the relatively subtle reaction of The Little Tramp at being stood up, of course this guy goes into a rage. This is what this product is. It kind of offers nothing. It is nothing. It doesn't show us anything new about the human experience. The thing is a oddball in the corner demanding attention for his own benefit and providing us, the community, with nothing. Is it great, powerful acting? Not particularly because I don't think that it is a harder job for the actor to be extreme than to be subtle. See more filippo v 11/25/2016 L'andamento monotematico del film rende la pellicola fin da subito noiosa e ripetitiva. L'interpretazione dell'attore principale è notevole ma solo questo aspetto non riesce a reggere una trama che non decolla. Il messaggio non mi è arrivato e nonostante un'idea sfruttabile "Nightingale" non lascia il segno. See more Read all reviews

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