Movie #1554 "Indignation" --- based on one of Phillip Roth's final books, I found it to be well done, with strong acting by the lead and his parents and the jewish boys at his college. Prior to this, it's been a difficult task for Hollywood to put Roth's books on screen successfully. I have not read this particular book, but the film makes me want to because it seems a nice solid study of a kid who has worked at the family business all of his young life, and then he finds himself , as a jew, attending a christian school and having trouble fitting in --- even with the jewish fraternity. That is, until he meets a fragile, damaged young lady, who seems quite experienced and worldly. He's at the college to escape being conscripted into the Korean War, and the last moment of this film is gut wrenching, and perhaps makes the rest of the film fall into place. Can't say much more, but there's much less action than long discussions here --- and that is my major complaint --- there's a 20 minute scene with Tracy Letts, the principal at the school, that should have been cut, and a couple of other ones that needed better editing, too. But overall, the story in intriguing, and I would recommend it to those who don't mind a bit of a talky film about a kid growing up in the 1950s.
"INDIGNATION" 2016 1 hour and 52 minutes
When he's admitted to a rigidly Christian college in the Midwest, Marcus Messner also achieves another goal: to get away from his domineering Jewish dad. But Marcus' optimism is soon tempered by a nettling dean and signs of anti-Semitism on campus.
Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts,
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