Movie #851 "The Burning Man" was a strange film. I think it was in my queue because I'm a big Matthew Goode fan (the dead boyfriend of Colin Firth in "A Single Man"). What I didn't like about this film was the excess of sex scenes in it (most seemed gratuitous), the way we hate the main character through most of it, the memento-style editing with just one scene on top of another all in mixed order, and the biggest complaint was that I didn't know the central core was about grief. If you want to see this film, even after this review, please note that he and the film are driven by overwhelming grief. I think the film went on and on without us knowing what it was all about, and thank goodness, I guess, because if it was straight through from beginning to end, people (and I) would have turned it off before they got to the end. So the editing was done on purpose --- I gathered that halfway through, and by that time I was watching just to find out what all the scenes I had seen meant. So in that way, it was different; otherwise, the story line is pretty much the same as most on the subject of grief ---- guy can't handle it --- left with a son and can't console the little tyke because he is wallowing to much in grief ---- and he has a bad temper to boot, so he constantly sees things being burned (thus the title) I liked that the film was done in Australia (haven't seen many that come from there), and I liked Goode's acting, and some of the photography and its style (looked like "Drive" a Ryan Gosling film a couple of years ago), but really, you don't need to see the film. It is so raw on what you go through when you choose to go home and die on your own (with no hospital help) and what that does to your caretaker, that it is really tough to watch and not recommended to many people.
Burning Man2011NR109 minutes I give it 2.8 stars out of 5
Tom, a charismatic but moody chef at a chic Australian restaurant, has trouble controlling his temper, an issue that finally comes to a head when an angry outburst at his son's birthday party draws the police.
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