A year after their son goes missing, a couple handle the loss in varying ways, growing apart from one another and their reality.A year after their son goes missing, a couple handle the loss in varying ways, growing apart from one another and their reality.A year after their son goes missing, a couple handle the loss in varying ways, growing apart from one another and their reality.
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- TriviaOlivia Wilde was cast, but then got pregnant. Director Reed Morano's response was to postpone filming, thinking that becoming a parent would only benefit the film.
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Adam: I know who you are. You're a teacher, at Essex County, right? I know, I know, cause I've seen you. My son goes to school there. Yeah, not teaching today, huh?
Sarah: No.
Adam: What is it, recess? My son's name is Adam. He's "special needs." You'd recognize him if you saw him.
Sarah: There's a lot of kids.
Adam: You know what this song's supposed to be about?
Sarah: It's about a fire lake?
Adam: Wow, you are a teacher.
Sarah: You send your son to a regular school?
Adam: Yeah, until they kick him out.
Sarah: You don't send him to a special education program, or anything?
Adam: No, he's... He's a foster kid, right? And the agency claims they didn't know about his condition. We thought we were getting a...
Sarah: ...normal kid?
Adam: Yeah right, okay, I'm an asshole, alright? But you know, look, it's a burden.
Sarah: They don't let you just dump him?
Adam: I'm glad you weren't my teacher.
Sarah: You should be.
Adam: Look, I mean... He's a sweet kid but if you're looking for Rain Man, or like a math genius, or a classical fucking pianist, you're out of luck.
Sarah: I heard that a lot of these kids, though, they're gifted. You just have to recognize what it is.
Adam: Oh, he's gifted in starring at the fucking TV all day. So am I. And what's your special talent? What are you good at?
Sarah: Well, I'm...
Sarah: [Sarah and Joe start to have sex in a hotel room and Sarah rides Joe even harder] Fuck! Fuck me! Harder! Oh yeah! Do that! Do that! Yes!
Sarah: [after Joe cums on Sarah's face, she starts to get dress] Is it three o'clock yet?
Adam: No.
Sarah: I'm supposed to pick up Adam. And I'm giving you a B+.
Adam: Well, I'm glad you weren't my teacher.
It's a look at the story of how a couple cope with the loss of their son, and the pernicious effects of grief over time. The title itself, Meadowland, seems to be the mental land where the suffering protagonists go to escape, the dream land that exists to maintain the last shreds of hope in the face of overwhelming pain.
It makes an excellent job of conveying the gradual deterioration of the ability to cope with not knowing, not being able to say goodbye and the juxtaposition of the need for closure with the incredible fear of accepting the inevitable.
It's brilliantly acted and well scripted. The pace is slow but filled with mounting intensity. The film holds its breath, never spilling into melodrama, but holding in an enormous sense of tension and conflict, thus creating a direct line of empathy for the situation of the main characters.
But it's not all doom and gloom, well it is all doom and gloom, but it examines that darkness at the place from which it emanates; love.
Poetic and sincere.
- Cathex
- Oct 28, 2015
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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