Down to the Bone

Down to the Bone Review

This is a movie about pain. I happen to like movies about pain because I get to go on the inside and see what people are really feeling. Usually, in the course of our daily lives, we just get to see the rather bland exteriors that people are willing to show us. We don't get much insight on what's really going on with them. A film like "Down To The Bone" provides the viewer a sharp, piercing intimacy. The viewer becomes the close personal friend of the main characters because they share everything with us. I really like that.

Of course, the acting and the writing in a film like this has to be first-rate in order to sustain the illusion that we are entering into the lives of these characters. Luckily, everything about this movie achieves genuine artistic success. The movie sucks us into the lives of some rather desperate, unhappy people and we are glad to be along for the ride.

Despite the downbeat nature of this story, there are some signs of hope by the end. We won't want to slit our wrists at the conclusion of the film because we won't be depressed to the point of absolute despair. We might even feel a little better about ourselves. We see the characters in the film cope successfully with their deep personal pain and maybe we'll learn to cope more constructively with our own.

I was very entertained by this movie. I've seen it several times and I could stand to see it several more times. Nothing about it is boring even though much about it is dreary. It is cinematic realism and it's fascinating.

Down to the Bone Overview

A working class mom in a stale marriage struggles to hide her cocaine addiction and blossoming affair while raising two sons.

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