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REVIEW: Shotgun Stories (2007) |
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Written by Mike
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
Shotgun Stories (2007)
Directed by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs and Natalie Canerday
With a film like Shotgun Stories it's kind of difficult to know where to begin a review. I could start with an attempt at a whitty comment, or make a statement about how I can sympathize with the main characters of this film having grown up in semi-similar circumstances but I think things would be best served if I just got right down to it. Shotgun Stories is a dark tale about two sets of half-brothers who all share the same father... but a completely different man. The older set, Son(Shannon), Boy(Ligon) and Kid(Jacobs) Hayes had a father who was a mean, drunked, violent man that left his sons to be raised by a mean and hateful mother. The second set of boys, Stephen, Cleaman, John and Mark Hayes, had a father who was sober, kind and actually gave them all real names. Son, Boy and Kid live in utter poverty, Son being the only brother with a house while Kid lives in a tent in Son's back yard and Boy living in his van. Their half-brothers however seem to live a much better life thanks to their reformed father which only adds to the resentment directed towards them from the less fortunate brothers.
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