It's nothing to say.
He is, shall we say, weird.
Martin has freckles, long fluffy hair, a strangely pale, almost translucent body.
His buddies call him Nitram, swapping the letters of his name.
Obviously, the boy is off the mark.
At his age, he continues to throw firecrackers to impress the neighborhood kids.
When he was very young, he had been seen on television after he had been burned by fireworks.
The news will soon talk about him.
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He doesn't listen to anything.
People call it “slow”.
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He doesn't like it.
The family is distraught.
The father, dilettante or spineless, depending on your point of view, seems overwhelmed by events.
Depression awaits him.
The mother is more fart-dry.
His love bangs against the windows.
She smokes cigarette after cigarette, watches the teenager sink into a universe to which she does not have the keys.
A dull anger boils in him.
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Boredom hangs over this small town.
No wonder the hero is considering a trip to Los Angeles.
He only brings back tourist trinkets.
With
Nitram
, Justin Kurzel
(Macbeth)
retraces a news item that has plunged the country into mourning.
He describes an unbalanced immured in his loneliness that nothing would perhaps have been enough to save.
The daily grinds over him.
He passes the mower to help, plays with an air rifle.
It could have been a good bugger.
At funerals, he dresses anyhow.
The astonishing Caleb Landry Jones lends his soft figure to this poor hero who drives around in a yellow Volvo with a surfboard on the roof (he never uses it, prefers to dream in front of the waves).
The girls barely look at him.
The others whisper them under his nose.
This can not go on.
He suffocates in his striped overalls, raids the local gunsmith.
We will not recount the only way he found to erase these traces of childhood which lit up his face at times.
The film is poisonous, tense like a bow.
It rustles with terrible evidence.
Nitram. Drama by Justin Kurzel. With Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Judy Davis. Duration 1 hour 50 minutes.