Losing your own child is the biggest of all losses. Reservation road is story of both the family which loses a child in an hit and run and the guilt of the driver. Neither side has it easy.
Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix) and Grace (Jennifer Connelly) are mother and father to a small daughter and son. Dwight (Mark Ruffalo) is a divorced lawyer who tries any ways possible to hold on to his son who is now living with his mother. When Dwight is driving from a baseball game with his son, he accidentally hits a little boy on the road, and decides to risk everything and hurries away without stopping.
When the boy dies and the police can not find the driver, boy's father decides to take the case into his own hands. What is left is just a revenge.
Even though the subject is heartbreaking and the roles are brilliant, Reservation road still does not really convince. There are too many coincidences to make the story feel real. What's missing in the story is replaced by the extremely realistic fathers whose pain you can almost touch.
Directed by Terry George
Written by John Burnham Schwartz and Terry George, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz
Cast Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Mira Sorvino
IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831884/
1 comment:
Such a sad story which I wouldn't want to happen to anyone. Losing your child is just the most horrifying and frightening feeling of them all.
I felt a bit same with the storyline and I can still remember the scene where the parents were so unbelievably calm just minutes after their son was found dead on the street. That felt so awkward, since any real parent would be screaming or acting like a crazy person or crying her/his eyeballs out at that moment.
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