Quick Hit: A movie with a beautiful performance by its leads, decent performances by its supporting characters, but one that makes me wish that Hollywood believed in all nice guys.
After a priest puts up her tuition for a semester, things start to brighten for Eilis. She meets a young Italian gentleman, Tony (Emory Cohen). Things start to go well for her in America. It is a wonderful bit of film-making here, because the colors in the movie change. Eilis starts to wear brighter clothes. The sets have more light. It’s these little details that aim this movie toward greatness.
back to Ireland. There, she is treated better than she has ever been treated. She is offered a job at Rose’s old firm. She meets a young man, Jim (played as a wonderfully tragic figure by Domhnall Gleeson – who is just in everything recently) (and I mean everything – The Revenant, Ex Machina, Star Wars Episode VII, Black Mirror, Anna Karenina, Frank, AND of course, the Harry Potter franchise) who is looking for someone to settle down with. He is a well to-do lad who seems like there is much more to him, and treats Eilis with a wonderful amount of respect. So, I am going to go on a small rant here, and it is probably going to be the only thing I dislike about the movie. I have to discuss some things about the ending (nothing groundbreaking) that are slightly spoilers. So, just in case, here is my trademark spoiler break. ***********************************************spoilers*****************************************************
really think Eilis is going to tell Tony about her escapades back home? No. Nothing she does in this movie makes us think she is going to tell her HUSBAND that she essentially dated another man back home. We don’t even know for sure that she told poor Jim she was married. She leaves the dude a NOTE! What is this middle school? Ugh.
Once I got over my anger about the previous stuff, I had to think a bit about my rating. Overall, this is a pretty good movie, and I think the acting is good enough that everybody should watch it. Apparently the Academy agreed, since they nominated her for best actress. Anyways, I give this movie a B+.
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