Chroniques et points de vue:From :While it may sound like some brutal warrior metaphor for life, this story of a high school boy facing up to the complexities of the adult world is a tender drama about troubled souls. Amiable, good-natured Roy (Ryan Gosling) keeps life at arm's length until renegade coach Gid (a paternal David Morse, who nurses his own emotional wounds) scouts him for a rural six-man football league--a rough, unforgiving game as much rugby as traditional gridiron action--and brings out his hibernating alpha-wolf. Roy also gets lessons in love from 'older woman' Clea Duvall, but this is not your usual coming-of-age film. Set on the forever plain and under the magnificent sky of the Montana high desert, and photographed with the crispness of a winter morning,
The Slaughter Rule offers an unsentimental portrait of a world in which winning is secondary to simply surviving till the end of the game.
--Sean Axmaker
Disponibilité: Usually ships in 24 hours
Produits similaires:
la suite
Produits similaires:
L'avis des consommateurs
Note moyenne:
-
Heartbreaking
Ryan Gosling is a wonder!!! The scenes between Ryan and David Morse were so intense that I was moved to tears several times.Both gave heartbreakingly beautiful performances.
Sadly a much misunderstood movie...
Note: 
-
Uneasy relationship between coach and quarterback
Overall, I liked this film for many of the reasons already mentioned here. It's a high school sports movie that brings to mind the scores of films that have been made in this genre (e.g., "All the Right Moves"), and it tries mostly successfully to work against that genre's conventions. It also explores the male-bonding that underlies the relationship between coach and player by bringing together two males who are both outsiders, each needing the other to fulfill a sense of purpose in lives that are otherwise going nowhere.
Whether the coach's need for "friendship" crosses a boundary is an ambiguity that, from the point where you first see it, makes the film not an easy one to watch. And the filmmakers have created a tension there (sexual or otherwise) that their film doesn't totally resolve -- which is maybe appropriate in the hard-bitten world of the movie, where football is played under bleak winter skies on snow-swept, frozen fields. Endings are often difficult, and this one feels somewhat contrived and melodramatic, but the overall film remains strong, and its moody narrative sticks with you long afterward.
Morse, as the coach, has played this kind of character before and portrays well a man of both pride and weakness, who has experienced hurt and failure. Ryan Gosling is wonderfully natural and plays the young protagonist with what seems to be complete understanding. His affair with an "older" woman may seem a nod to convention, but the relationship is written and played for the truth in it -- that his immaturity makes him less than what she's hoping to find in a man. Equally memorable is the cinematography, capturing the Montana landscapes in wan winter light. The music is perfect.
I like films that are not quite predictable, show me a world I don't know, and play with conventions, expectations, and ambiguities. This one held my attention from beginning to end.
Note: -
* wasteland ...
I bought the DVD because, sadly, I had missed the screenings and couldn't find it for rental anywhere. The Jay Farrar music and the Indians were the reasons for me seeing it. To be a little critical, it came off as Cohen-brothers lite; if you strung together all the slower sequences of Blood Simple and Fargo, you'd have this movie. I did like the fact that nothing followed convention, and the hopelessness of living was conveyed well. I could've done without the scene near the end where a Native drives up in warpaint, hair flowing, on a motorcycle - it's like things turned into a Sherman Alexie story all of the sudden.
Note: -
A thought-provoking and iconoclastic thrill
A curious film. I think I knew where it was going about a hundred times, and it surprised me each time by NOT being the guy-gets-girl film, or the Renegades-vs.-old-high-school-buddies film, or the coach-comes-back-to-take-the-coveted-trophy film, or a thousand other bad combinations of cliched, stale "Americana" moviemaking. In fact, by virtue of NOT being a boring trip following in the wake of a trend already being rehashed, it caught be off-guard and by surprise. For those who have seen it, you'll admit that the scene when Roy is in Gid's apartment before the game is about the farthest thing from what you thought the movie would be.
And this is not to say that the film's quiet strength lies in its simply being "different". Like "Tender Mercies" and "Ramblin' Rose" (come to think of it, Duvall could have done a good Gid), this movie sneaks up on you and slowly reveals itself in moments so powerfully alive the viewer is transfixed. Human misery and torment flow endlessly between the characters, echoing the title and theme: we each seem to need our own "slaughter rule" to end the misery in our lives, but the ones in the film can't find their own limits until long after they appear to have been crossed.
The acting is superb (especially Morse, who adds just enough sinister kindness to his role), and the cinematography brilliant. The music, composed by indie-folkster Jay Farrar, is flat-out beautiful. This film has obviously shocked a few here, and it will continue to do so, and therein lies its beauty. As a conversation piece and thought-provoking film, "Slaughter Rule" is this generation's Great Unheralded Masterpiece.
Note: 
-
* Very Disappointing ...
I only bought this film because I was impressed with Ryan Gosling in Murder By Numbers, and reviews of The Slaughter Rule were interesting. I ONLY kept watching it because I hoped it would get better. The movie did not live up to its hype. Ryan and Morse were good, but the film had no substance. Clea Duvall was dry and the relationship between her and Gosling seemed forced with no chemistry. The film could have stood to show more of Kelly Lynch and Ryan Gosling interacting as mother and son. People claimed the scenes between Gosling and Morse were full of sexual intensity. Well I didn't see any of that. Just one clumsy scene when they end up in a lame shouting/hugging session. Also the football scenes were way too long and predictable. It was obvious that the naughty sex scenes were thrown in to wake people up who had dozed off. Unfortunately most people still dozed. This movie isn't worth your time unless you're a HUGH Ryan Gosling fan. If not you'll be bored to tears.
