This is my version of how the two trailers for Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)...and Melancholia ( Lars Von Trier) can be screened as one....I edited them after seeing Take Shelter.... both films with similar themes for paranoid Americans and the wider world ,sounding and looking unified.
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TAKE SHELTER REVIEW
(Tim Francis)
This is a 2011 drama/thriller written and directed by Jeff Nichols.
Starring Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain and Shea Whigham.
The storyline is simply portrayed with Curtis, (Michael Shannon ) a protective and caring family man, experiencing bad dreams and what may or not be, hallucinations. He eventually assumes he is suffering from a mental illness and sets about building an expensive storm shelter at the back of his house to protect his wife and deaf daughter, from an impending typhoon-type catastrophe. This causes problems with his wife and working colleagues and is fired from his job for using equipment without permission. Resulting in the financial and emotional meltdown of his family.. Samantha ,his wife (Jessica Chastain) and Hannah (Tova Stewart , deaf also in real life)…and his friend Dewart (Shea Whigham).
The tension etched by the soundtrack and eerie visuals lead us through this part horror/art-movie in an unsettling way. The viewer is rooting for Curtis to share his paranoia and apocalyptic visions with someone.. There is always a lot going on behind his eyes in a slow methodical mental anxiety conveying the fear of some impending doom.. This slow-burn parable of a film guards it’s mysteries in a way that unleashes the metaphorical cultural fall-out of America’s financial collapse ,in equal measure with a sense of widespread fear that is gripping the world’s consciousness. The dire appeal of Nichol’s second feature ( a disciple of the Terrence Malick school ) is not the disturbing , portrait of one man’s descent into madness, but the palpable sense of danger from a sense of not knowing exactly what it is and sharing the dread. Trading on Americas biggest vice….Fear…The current anxieties about climate change and financial collapse and the End Times of the Mayan calendar angst will surely result in a series of low-budget ,deep ,.paranoid movies. …Of which this reviewer has many works-in-progress…………THERE’S A STORM-A-COMINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG…….
