Three Minute Review

Title:	In the Bedroom 2001
Director:	Todd Field
Plot:	They said the plot was about a young man, an older woman and her ex husband.  It's really about the pain of loss and what we do in the name of closure.

If Kevin Costner did poetic painful movies, which spoke in long pauses and showed little of the character.  If he focused instead on the barren surroundings of how we view life, when we feel some very important piece of us stolen, he would have directed In The Bedroom.  We can only blame Costner for Waterworld and The Postman though.  Todd Fields is to blame for this over indulgent movie which neither paces itself or practices any restraint for the benefit of pacing, over what I can only consider was the intent to convey the pain and the ache of loss and smoldering rage. 

And I rarely have any interest in saying a movie is just shit.  I much prefer to take hard looks at why I didn't like the movie and if others may like it for the exact reason I did not like it. So I often spend time taking on the perspective of what the movie was about and why you may like and dislike it.  In The Bedroom just wore out my Serious-Indie movie patience.  At one point my girlfriend got up to make soup, twenty minutes later I commented on how I noticed she did not ask me to pause the movie. She replied that she didn't think it was possible she'd missed anything, considering the speed of the movie. 

She picked the phucking movie.  On top of all of that, it is packed with a number of actors who I love to see working and doing what they love and I can't blame any of them.  They did fine, but the movie itself suffered from what I like to sum up as "It could have been thirty minutes shorter and probably a great movie."  Notice though how I don't give away any of the plot. If it sounded like a good movie to you, you may in fact like it.. I didn't.