Finger Food: Matthews Attempts to Mount a Western in Modern Colonialist Trauma
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time to develop the perspective of an indigenous South African population driving the story of their attempted genre thriller in debut Five Fingers for Marseilles. But while pains were obviously taken to keep the development of their central characterizations intact, this Western infused melodrama hemorrhages the tension it so feverishly attempts to distill in the groundwork of its first act.
As a narrator explains the development of a region thanks to a railway system, the displacement of the natives to a hilly terrain renamed Railway finds the inhabitants dependent upon the transportation system for economic well-being.…...
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time to develop the perspective of an indigenous South African population driving the story of their attempted genre thriller in debut Five Fingers for Marseilles. But while pains were obviously taken to keep the development of their central characterizations intact, this Western infused melodrama hemorrhages the tension it so feverishly attempts to distill in the groundwork of its first act.
As a narrator explains the development of a region thanks to a railway system, the displacement of the natives to a hilly terrain renamed Railway finds the inhabitants dependent upon the transportation system for economic well-being.…...
- 9/19/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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