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🎙️ EPISODE 614: 12.07.22
Well, I guess I have to write the review for Serenity now, one of the stranger and most random (non TRUE RANDOM) choices for a film to critique in a long while. This is a movie about fatherhood, about fishing, about the mafia, about video games, about the War on Terror, about domestic abuse, about A.I. becoming mildly sentient and altering real world events in insane and dramatic ways. But mostly it's a movie about fishing and catching the big one. Tuna. To be exact. You'd think they would have chosen as a sailfish or a marlin as the big metaphor fish, but no... they chose a tuna. And that's apt because this is the tuna of films that fall somewhere between the genres of thriller, mystery, sci-fi, drama and Matthew McConaughey overacting movies.
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Written and directed by Steven Knight — the man behind
Peaky Blinders and a bunch of other mostly good stuff, like the
Eastern Promises —
Serenity is an incredibly weird movie with an impossibly stupid twist (the brilliant son of a deceased war veteran designs a computer fishing game to escape the horrors of abuse and connect with a dad he never met only the directives of the game change from catching the big one to killing his abusive step-father and this — somehow? — spurs him, the son, to murder the guy in real life). Of course, we don't know this is all a game for about 80% of it. It's not until Jeremy Strong in the role of a fish-finder salesman coughs up the truth that McConaughey isn't a real person, just a character in a game who now needs to make a choice which will have consequences — again, SOMEHOW — that he couldn't possibly comprehend. I know you'll be shocked to hear this, but... it doesn't really come together! Alas, there's something here in all the goofiness and maybe because of said goofiness. Knight really swung for the fences with this one and who am I to shit on such a strange and bold effort?
Serenity is a 2019 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Steven Knight. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, and Jeremy Strong, and follows a fishing boat captain who is approached by his ex-wife to murder her abusive new husband. It was released on January 25, 2019.
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