Little Red Riding Hood... Oh that's sick, he's her father! This is Ang Lee, not Park Chan-wook.
Verdict
I couldn't recommend it with fervour, but Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is definitely worth watching. It’s borderline bland and boring, yet so resonant and still timely. Winter is here.
For people who like reading...
In this '90s film about the '70s, Lee boards us on a train from New York, departing for depression - a dreary, barren woodside New Canaan on the verge of a wintry storm.
A nuclear winter. The environment perfectly mimics its inhabiting nuclear units.
I’ve never seen a film deal with adolescent sexual exploration so naturally. Everything’s grey, people are pushing boundaries just to feel something. Sound familiar?
The social revolution unfolds with such undertones, numbing the viewer. At one point, I pondered if the death of a character would have any impact. Could this winter get any colder? At least then, I would feel something.
It did and I did.
*Cue Whitney: Didn't we almost have it all...?
Roll the credits
In addition to Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Allison Janney, already known at the time, we also get too see younger incarnations of:
Tobey Maguire
When he started getting "webby" hands, but for an entirely different reason.
Katie Holmes
B.C. Need I say more?
Elijah Wood
When he should have been more precious.
Christina Ricci
Before she started an affair with a serial killer à la Charlize Theron.
Sweet dreams...
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