Feels sometimes like the great Kunsten at græde i kor, and other times as heavy as any Ulrich Seidl film, but it keeps it funny and moving and deep and interesting all the time in it's very weird and excellent way.
First thing: reading reviews here and everywhere, I know now, that Glaswegians believe that Mullan did an excellent job on portraying them in the movie; which is great, that's the way the movie makes you feel; I found myself visiting another town, another people, hearing them in another accent, but it felt familiar, real, uncomfortable, repulsed, angry, happy, etc.
This is the most important thing, the movie goes all the way deep in every emotion you can feel.
I was laughing since the first minute, almost every scene has its comedic point of view.
And ******spoilers ahead******** having a guy bleeding the hole movie made me super nervous, this is something, I haven't read anywhere, the tension keeps growing in every single story on the film, the girl in the wheelchair, the guy who wants to kill Duncan and the crazy brother in the church, it's like boiling and over cooking something in an old pressure cooker, it feels like it's going to explode, and when it does, it comes to the ridiculous but primary feeling of needing the family.
++++++++spoilers END+++++++++++++++ So it's a movie about the family, and the people surrounding you, but, they happen to be in Scotland.
I've been lucky to find excellent movies lately, I first watched Death at a funeral (the original one), Tucker and Dale vs Evil, A fish called Wanda, Office Space, Seven Psychopaths, and this, Orphans, is the one that made me want to write a review, why? because it's excellent and pure and it proves that humans are evolving but very slowly and it hurts.
First thing: reading reviews here and everywhere, I know now, that Glaswegians believe that Mullan did an excellent job on portraying them in the movie; which is great, that's the way the movie makes you feel; I found myself visiting another town, another people, hearing them in another accent, but it felt familiar, real, uncomfortable, repulsed, angry, happy, etc.
This is the most important thing, the movie goes all the way deep in every emotion you can feel.
I was laughing since the first minute, almost every scene has its comedic point of view.
And ******spoilers ahead******** having a guy bleeding the hole movie made me super nervous, this is something, I haven't read anywhere, the tension keeps growing in every single story on the film, the girl in the wheelchair, the guy who wants to kill Duncan and the crazy brother in the church, it's like boiling and over cooking something in an old pressure cooker, it feels like it's going to explode, and when it does, it comes to the ridiculous but primary feeling of needing the family.
++++++++spoilers END+++++++++++++++ So it's a movie about the family, and the people surrounding you, but, they happen to be in Scotland.
I've been lucky to find excellent movies lately, I first watched Death at a funeral (the original one), Tucker and Dale vs Evil, A fish called Wanda, Office Space, Seven Psychopaths, and this, Orphans, is the one that made me want to write a review, why? because it's excellent and pure and it proves that humans are evolving but very slowly and it hurts.