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I found this film quite disturbing, so much so that I considered turning it off half way through, but it was so compelling that I had to continue watching it until the end.
The lead character Curtis, who is a good solid working man with a loving family, starts having terrible nightmares that include a ferocious storm where it rains oil and various people attacking him and his family. In response to these nightmares he builds an elaborate storm shelter in his garden. Everyone thinks he's crazy, but is he? Perhaps he is a prophet who is accurately predicting an impending cataclysmic event? Perhaps the film is simply depicting what it's like to go insane? Perhaps the film has no meaning at all and director Jeff Nichols is just messing with our heads so that simple folk like me go to bed feeling disturbed?
You watch the film and tell me.
Nigel.
The lead character Curtis, who is a good solid working man with a loving family, starts having terrible nightmares that include a ferocious storm where it rains oil and various people attacking him and his family. In response to these nightmares he builds an elaborate storm shelter in his garden. Everyone thinks he's crazy, but is he? Perhaps he is a prophet who is accurately predicting an impending cataclysmic event? Perhaps the film is simply depicting what it's like to go insane? Perhaps the film has no meaning at all and director Jeff Nichols is just messing with our heads so that simple folk like me go to bed feeling disturbed?
You watch the film and tell me.
Nigel.
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