*Originally written November 11th, 2016*
"American Fruit Pastel?"
I'm a huge fan of Ewan McGregor, people even say I look like him for some weird reason, but I was interested to see how he would do directed. And he did a pretty okay job.
I'm just not entirely sure what the point of this was. It's not what I expected at all. While it's was engaging and really interesting at times, it was also fairly flat and lifeless at others.
After watching this and Big Fish, Ewan McGregor really needs to stop doing American accents. It's.... it's bad. It was great to see Dakota Fanning again though, this time playing a rebellious teenage daughter with a stutter.
This was bleak and depressing as hell. It has some moments of genuine sweetness, although these moments are placed in flashback form at a moment of where it just makes you feel like shit for maximum manipulative effect.
As a director, McGregor has made a good looking film with an interesting look at politics, race and teenage rebellion in 1970's America, but in the end, the film just didn't have a lot to say and I'm not sure what it was trying to say.
6/10 Dans
American Pastoral is out now on DVD in the UK
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