![]() Susan begins to read and Ford dramatises his manuscript right in front of us. (In Wright’s novel she is a college professor, not an art dealer, so the literary judgment was perhaps more cutting.) There is another terrible issue in their pasts, invented here by Ford. ![]() All of the parts of this film minus the performance from Jake Gyllenhaal and the screenplay by Tom Ford are so boring and divoied of life.She is astonished to receive, out of the blue, the manuscript of an unpublished novel from her first husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), whom she hasn’t heard from in nearly 20 years: a sweet, sensitive boy from her Texas hometown whose heart she broke twice over: by leaving him for her wealthy second husband, and by declaring he didn’t have the right stuff to be an author – that he was insecure and weak. We are also shown how lifeless and boring Susan is now compared to her flashbacks with Edward.Īll That being said though this film still isn't as impressive as it could have been. Susan laves Edward for a richer stronger man, but he doesn't love her and during one of her phone calls with him we learn that he is cheating on her. The third theme and final major theme is choosing happiness over success. His character Tony dies a good man at the end of the book, and we are left to wonder if the same thing happened to Edward, but the film leaves it ambiguous with Susan inviting Edward to meet her at a restaurant and Edward not showing up. That Theme being that good men will not survive in this evil world, they either die a good man or turn into a bad one. We are then left to imagen the rest of Edward's story through his book and build up our idea of who he has become through the theme expressed in his book. This connects to Edward's real-life story where Susane leaves him and aborts their child because her mom says he is too weak and convinces her to leave him for someone else. Tony is a good and sensitive man but because of this he isn't strong enough to save his wife and daughter. As Susan is reading this book, we see flashbacks to her and her ex-husband Edward and we begin to learn where he got inspiration for his story. The first idea it explores is where inspiration for art comes from. Where this film excels is with the themes and the way it develops them. ![]() Because of this there is a disconnect between the audience and Tony and we don't get enough time to focus on him resulting in a story that feels very half-baked and unimportant. The main reason for this is that Tony isn't real, he's just a character in the book Susan is reading. Paired with one of the best performances that Jake Gyllenhaal has ever given you would think it would be one of the greatest characters in cinema but unfortunately, he is not. The character transformation of Jake Gyllenhaal's character Tony is incredible and rivals the likes of Michael in The Godfather and Miles in Into the Spider-verse. Nocturnal Animals tells the story of a woman (played by Amt Adams) reading a book written by her ex-husband (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) about a man (also played by Jake Gyllenhaal) whose wife and daughter are brutally raped and murdered while he is powerless to stop it and shows his moral decent as he tries to get justice. Nocturnal Animals is an exceptional and very layered meta commentary of art when it comes to the themes and ideas that are developed but is incredibly bland in every other area. ![]()
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