Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Red Road (2006)

It was a strange international night on Sundance. After Sheitan (French), Red Road (Scottish) came on. It's better than the former, but still not good.

This one is about a woman whose family has apparently been killed: her husband and he young daughter. She hasn't allowed their ashes to be scattered or buried or memorialized, causing strife with her in-laws. She monitors surveillance cameras (of which Scotland seems to have a lot) as a job and one day sees the man who killed her family. She's upset because his jail sentence was apparently reduced for good behavior. She proceeds to stalk him, talk to him at a party she infiltrated, and then have a sexual relationship with him. After having sex with him, she beats herself up and cries rape. She then drops the charges because she, still spying on him at her work, sees his daughter try to find him at his apartment (on Red Road). She then confronts him about telling her exactly what happened when he killed her family. Turns out it was a drunk driving accident. That's it. No cold-blooded murder. No drug deal gone wrong. No husband dealing with bad guys behind her back. An accident. I know it must be traumatizing to lose a husband and a young daughter but, really, it's a movie, make a more interesting choice. She then decides that her in-laws can memorialize their son and granddaughter. The end.

This one is no good at all and there isn't an interesting reason to watch it.

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