Blue ruin (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Jeremy Saulnier
	Actors: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Kevin Kolack
	Country: USA, F
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 01.12.2014, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: As Dwight (Blair) is informed that a double murder gets out of jail, he comes out of his outsider life to start a vengeance.
Review: The story is not that extraordinary. The cut and the photography (camera position, light) are very good and are done so that for each scene I had enough time to feel something was strange in this revenge. The slow rise in violence is done without long explaination and neither clearly. But it is done so that I felt the suspense. Slowly I was caught in the spiral of absurdity that is the story of both families. A bit like Locke, the atmosphere is the major strength of the movie, involving the cut, the rythm, the few dialogues. But the suspense is not as big as in Locke, maybe because the story is not explained enough.  The chronology of the dialogues reminded me the argumentation of Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore. That US Americans have many weapons at home but not as the Canadians. But that they are actually more violent. In the movie we see that for the anybody, even people apparently normal really the average man, the violence and the revenge is accepted as a normal fact. Tit for tat.
Rating: 5 /10