Adoration [Blu-ray] Overview
What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and internet chat-room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find the truth about his dead father. From Academy Award-nominated director Atom Egoyan (1997, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter) comes a story of a young man who must question everything he knows in order to learn who he is and who his father was. Adoration presents a world where there is no such thing as us versus them and the truth is never as simple as right and wrong.
Adoration [Blu-ray] Specifications
Adoration is welcome addition to Canada-based Atom Egoyan’s (The Sweet Hereafter) oeuvre that slows down and examines our fast-paced, technology-laden information age. Egoyan’s new film, like his politically charged Ararat, thematically tackles the fears and suspicions surrounding international travel, and attempts to expose what those fears are rooted in. Adoration riffs off of an actual failed terrorist attempt in 1986, for which a Jordanian man tried to pack explosives in his wife’s bag before boarding an airplane. In this film, brooding teen, Simon (Kevin Bostick), is implored by his French teacher, Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), to tell his peers that his father was a terrorist under the same rubric, as a drama exercise. Simon, whose parents died in a car accident, is living with his Uncle Tom (Scott Speedman), and is also close to best friend Hannah (Katie Boland), though neither confidant learns of Simon and Sabine’s fiction until the escapade has spiraled out of control via internet video chat rooms. The film has a characteristically Egoyanian contemplative stillness throughout, and the mood remains heavy. Scenes of familial interaction, alternating between flashback and invented memory, weave a tale in which Simon’s fantastic plot is as palpable as the real one. Often, narrative is relayed through internet conversation, as Simon sits in his dark room debating ethical concerns amongst, at first, his friends, then teachers, then Jewish populations who take offense at the cultural insults Simon implies. While the film conveys how quickly information is disseminated in today’s media, it more seeks to address and question the validity and quality of our news, and our eagerness to judge what we know little about. --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
What makes this movie so different from the previous film Egoyan, the
Accessibility of this film. It seems that some of Egoyan rough
Finally, the edges are beveled. Gone, finally, some are
annoying self-confident, self-artistic and self-proclamatory
Iconoclasm regulator and Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter.
With each new film, Egoyan and mature small (fortunately
suddenly all at once and then), some of the self-conscious film school
Hokumthat his early films (especially reviewers sores)
although not to the extent that the performance of his earlier films
unwatchable or missing in terms of cinematic quality. This seems
to be what a Canadian, I noticed that David Cronenberg
is almost exactly the same trajectory of combines
(his films on time and are also a big fan of Cronenberg
Egoyan, as I am).
This film is more concerned that you and you try to do without
preconceivedIdeas and prejudices, and is one of the most
effective film, in fact, in presenting the thesis that the
"Enemy" (eg, Arabs, Muslims, etc.) are in the position of humanity
and subtlety, and intellectual achievement. What separates
This film greater transparency film is that ideological
The film tries to highlight the global humanity, without any deduction
a particular group or protagonist (or self --
Protagonist). When I critique (withoutway
whole plot), I could say that by the end of the film
I'm not sure Egoyan is completely neutral and a PC, and
seems that pages with a pro-multiculturalism philosophy to adopt,
although in fairness Egoyan, I do not think he takes ethnic
Pages (in this film, anyway) with a particular party
the various conflicts in the Middle East (a suspected
his Armenian background wanderer to move with
batch and the precariousnessArmenians have sometimes
were found in the Middle East, has a great influence on
to carry out his political opinions and social film seems
some of these out, but so thin and neutral).
A can simply leave this film, the guidance of an injury
without feeling as if they were attacked by ideologically
opposing points of view, because in his honor, Egoyan pigs
thinking and not condescending to us (in this film, "I agree with
Often among the directors. Kudos to Egoyan
asking us to believe, but compared to us in any case, even if
We have not chosen.
This film is handled very well filmed, and after
applied for the usual high standard of film Egoyan.
As I mentioned earlier, the film is simple
some of his early films, such as peer
were terrible, and Hokieconfident. This film is not.
It 'nice to have done well, simple, artistically and thoughtfully
and well worth the costs they see in the movies
the purchase or transfer of well-made DVD.
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