You Were Never Really Here

This one will never be forgotten. Its richness lies in the silent details.

Kind of disturbing to watch but any film that can create that type of reaction is well done. Caution advised for those sensitive to taboo subjects.

Another impressive performance from Phoenix coupled with an artsy aesthetic makes this a work that you should see. I felt uncomfortable watching it, and not many movies leave me with that feeling anymore. It's also vague enough to keep you asking questions and dissecting it long after. I'll definitely be watching this again.

Extremely powerful and well shot+edited. However, this movie is not for everyone as it is not a point a to b type when it comes to story telling.

I thought that this film was really a gem. I really appreciated that we did not know that much about the main character and the director really slow-played our discovery of him.

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Swing away Merrill...swing away

"McCleary said you were brutal."

Joaquin Phoenix truly is brutal in this film. He gives a fantastic performance of this quiet and unhinged man for hire. Some beautiful cinematography and one of Johnny Greenwood's best scores makes this a beautiful watch. The editing is also amazing, what they show on an off screen really made the plot vague enough that we can fill it ourselves. The whole time while watching this I was uneasy but in a good way. Lynne Ramsay has another excellent film

"Joe, wake up. It's a beautiful day."

A rather unconventional thriller revolving around a kind of twisted action (anti-)hero protagonist mentally broken beyond repair, who seems inevitably drawn towards the kind of traumatic situations that gave him that severe case of PTSD in the first place. This is echoed by the girl he is hired to rescue, [spoiler]a victim of child prostitution and clearly doomed to become a similarly broken person.[/spoiler] Writer-director Lynne Ramsay is clearly more concerned with the inner torment of her characters than with the overall plot and achieves her vivid portrayal of their their messed up states of mind through purely cinematic language.

>Votto: McCleary said you were brutal.
Joe: ...I can be.
Votto: I want you to hurt them.

Wow, where to begin. I went in blind and I was thoroughly and pleasantly surprised by this film. I want to give props to the cinematographer (Thomas Townsend), the sound crew. The way they tell this story gets you sucked in and the emotions can punch you in the gut. I see some people think it is too slow, but why rush a well-paced story.