So after our little week off last week we are back! I'd like to say back with a bang, but I'm sorry to say that this week's offering was more of a damp squib.....
The Woodsman.
So, Kevin Bacon stars in this really very dark movie. Walter (Bacon), a convicted paedophile, serves his twelve year sentence, then after release tries to get back to some kind of normality, whilst fighting his mental demons.
And that's about the long and the short of the story. That's what it's about, there's nothing much to it. There's a love interest and there's some distraction when he spies another paedophile in the neighbourhood, but that is all.
I don't think I can eulogise much over the film, the story was extremely dark. The subject matter is abhorrent. And there was little or no plot.
Having said that, the acting was really good, enough to carry the weak story through to the end.
All in all, not a great film.
IMDB had this to say;
After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.
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