Even though I don’t have any affinity with Japanese culture as such and mostly ignore Asian films, I couldn’t resist giving “The Outsider” a chance. Not only because of the fact that Jared Leto is playing in it (a colorful actor who reminds me of Johnny Depp and because of his ro...
The Outsider After struggling to be taken seriously as the Joker in “Suicide Squad” and being the arguably least impressive component of “Blade Runner 2049,” Oscar-winning actorJared Letohas another big swing-and-a-miss with “The Outsider,” available on Netflix today. Contrasting the flai...
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as an outsider, as I am a white guy who is not a practitioner of any of the religions depicted nor a decedent of any of the ethnic groups in this film. Now this means that I am likely missing a lot of the historical and cultural contexts that the film is using as shorthand. But ...
To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for ...
Outwardly unexpressive but inwardly volatile, Jongsu (Yoo Ah-in, “The Throne”), a young delivery man, aspires to be a writer but does not write. He asks himself, “What kind of story can I write?” but he is an outsider looking to the world to provide a story for him. “To ...
this is Jonah Hill’s directorial debut. We all know Mr. Hill and his raunchy sense of humor from his acting in such movies as KNOCKED UP, SUPERBAD, and THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, and here he flashes an intimate knowledge of what it’s like to be an outsider … those on the fringes...
The “outsider” is a beloved mythic trope in our culture, from Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield, to “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Easy Rider,” to the Beat generation. These figures remove themselves from the constraints of conformity, refuse the comforts of middle-class life, live by...
the progression of any conversation – a sign of both poor editing and writing. The one cast member that copes well with the material she’s afforded is Mischa Barton who plays Samantha, an outsider who is eventually placed in frequently horrible situations. Managing to channel an inner sense ...