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If you're at all familiar with the works of O. Henry, then you have some idea of what to expect in the narrative. There are twists, to be sure, but they ultimately amount to a tragedy of errors, and every character ends up in a much, much worse place than where they started. What's particularly grim about "Red..." is that most of them start from a place that's pretty freakin' depressing to begin with. Erica is a lonely, aimless drifter, on the surface little more than an emotional blank, but we glean little bits and pieces of her truer humanity here and there, and it ends up being just enough to break our hearts for her once we learn the truth behind her disconnectedness. Nate, recently "honorably discharged" after a tour of Iraq, has the cold exterior of someone who could either be a psycho killer or just a misunderstood loner, and he and Erica share so much obvious emotional damage that there's a brief glimmer of hope in the fact that they may in fact find each other. And Franki, the curly-haired modern primitive whose band is just about to build up some real momentum, at first comes off like the typcial self-absorbed rock wannabe, but as layers are peeled back we see that he, too, has a genuinely good heart, demonstrated in scenes where he cares for his cancer-stricken mother. These respective setups would normally play out as melodrama in a lesser director's hands, but Rumley is careful to keep things downplayed and wholly believable; it takes a little longer to come around and like each character, but they break through and eventually gain our sympathies. And it's right when we begin to root for them that the ground gives.
A distinctly three-act story, the first third concentrates on Erica. The second shifts to Franki, and this is where all the threads come together and we, the audience, realize that nothing good will come from the third, convergent act, Nate's final solution. The why's and wherefores that lead each character to the culmination are almost beside the point, which is why I'm not spoiling them, but be warned that the bleakness continues up until the final frame. And this brings us back to the underlying conceit: we're watching something that amounts to a slow-motion car wreck, one in which we see the inevitability of the disaster and are powerless to warn anyone involved. So what's the point of all this hopelessness? And does a movie need one to justify its existence? Fluff is fluff, easily ingested and just as easily forgotten, but it's so difficult to think of "Red..." as pure entertainment that it can't help but invite such questions. The fact that it manages to so provoke makes "Red, White and Blue" a worthy watch, but your willingness to deal with such questions will ultimately determine what value, entertainment or otherwise, you derive from the experience. At the very least, if you tend to avoid movies that will bring down your day, then you might want to give this one a wide berth.
Director:Simon Rumley
Writer:Simon Rumley
Release dates:20 May 2011
Cast,Noah Taylor,Amanda Fuller,Marc Senter
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