I am a big thriller fan and often watch them not just for the actors. Having heard for a while about NANCY I knew that I had to see it but when I saw it last January I felt baffled because here on IMDB is labeled as a thriller but it's not really one.
Nancy Freeman (Andrea Riseborough) is a thirty-something year old woman that lives with her mother in a condition of unease: not only she has to care for her mother that is gradually suffering from dementia but she doesn't feel connected to her and doesn't have great memories of her childhood. After Nancy's mother dies she sees on TV an announcement by a Leo (Steve Buscemi) and Ellen Lynch that talk about their daughter that went missing decades ago. Nancy confronts her face with that of the missing girl and Nancy convinces to be her, and so she goes to the Lynch couple for living with the Lynch family that accepts her like the lost daughter and when she finally discovers the truth she flees.
I liked the concept. Very few movies have been made about young people in search of true identity, and this is probably the first about someone who thinks to be a missing person. And the acting by Riseborough and Buscemi was good on a whole.
But some things confused me. First, Nancy goes to the Lynch household and without any real proof she claims to be their lost daughter and they accept her in the home. Don't you think that the Lynch couple could have called the cops for having a complete stranger going to live with them? Second, the fact that in the end left the Lynch household made me think that her 'sacrifice' of living with the couple was vain because she understood that she is not their daughter and has to live on her own.
Overall, a different movie with a nice concept that worked but just needed a better re-write. As it is, a worth seeing experiment but nothing more.
Nancy Freeman (Andrea Riseborough) is a thirty-something year old woman that lives with her mother in a condition of unease: not only she has to care for her mother that is gradually suffering from dementia but she doesn't feel connected to her and doesn't have great memories of her childhood. After Nancy's mother dies she sees on TV an announcement by a Leo (Steve Buscemi) and Ellen Lynch that talk about their daughter that went missing decades ago. Nancy confronts her face with that of the missing girl and Nancy convinces to be her, and so she goes to the Lynch couple for living with the Lynch family that accepts her like the lost daughter and when she finally discovers the truth she flees.
I liked the concept. Very few movies have been made about young people in search of true identity, and this is probably the first about someone who thinks to be a missing person. And the acting by Riseborough and Buscemi was good on a whole.
But some things confused me. First, Nancy goes to the Lynch household and without any real proof she claims to be their lost daughter and they accept her in the home. Don't you think that the Lynch couple could have called the cops for having a complete stranger going to live with them? Second, the fact that in the end left the Lynch household made me think that her 'sacrifice' of living with the couple was vain because she understood that she is not their daughter and has to live on her own.
Overall, a different movie with a nice concept that worked but just needed a better re-write. As it is, a worth seeing experiment but nothing more.