1997 drama
Rating: 17/20
Plot: A lawyer rolls into a town dealing with a tragedy and tries to put together a lawsuit.
This was not the feel-good movie of 1997. It might have been the feel-bad movie though.
It's a very honest look at grief and what tragedy can do to a community's past, present, and future. It grips, kind of pulls you under its spell, and gives you all these fragments that, when you put them together, adds up to a devastating complete picture. The movie's not a puzzle. You don't really have to figure out how to put pieces together or solve anything. You're really given everything you need right at the very beginning, but the storytelling still has this abstract quality that makes it more like an impressionist painting than a straight narrative. And that's appropriate since grief is one of those emotions that really can't be defined in a specific way or with any clarity.
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