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Chaos Walking is a weird as hell movie. Having sat on a shelf for literally years, even before the pandemic stated, and getting a quick theatrical release in the States, it finally hit VOD in Canada via eOne Films. Surprisingly, its not an unwatchable mess as some of the pre-release buzz stated. It is definitely strange and has a central stylistic hook that can be annoying but oddly compelling. Sometimes it sort of works, and sometimes it really doesn’t. Chaos is a bit of a mess but an interestingly oddball misfire, attempting to do something distinct. It doesn’t exactly succeed but it is unique.
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DESERVEDLY nominated for six Academy Awards, you can’t help but be swept away by this exquisitely tender and heartfelt story of a Korean-US family in pursuit of the American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.
Though totally fictional, writer-director Lee Isaac Chung was inspired by his own family and provides a fresh new take on the immigrant tale. It is a touching love letter to his own parents and their tenacity to forge a new life in the US and to provide their children with a more promising future.
The film, the produced by Brad Pitt and named after a peppery Korean herb, follows the pressures that a Korean family of four face as they move from California to a small farm in rural Arkansas and how their lives are upended with the arrival of the maternal grandmother (played superbly by Yuh-Jung Youn).
Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star in a scene from the movie Chaos Walking. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Murray Close, Lionsgate)
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NEW YORK (CNS) If you could read my mind, love/What a tale my thoughts could tell. So mused Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in a hit song from a half-century ago.
The downside of such a situation bedevils the hero of the dull dystopian science fiction drama Chaos Walking (Lionsgate). He inhabits a world where men s thoughts though not women s take audible and sometimes visible form, and thus can only be concealed with great difficulty. While that proves troubling for him and those around him, the effect on the film s audience is nothing short of torturous.
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