Am just not certain that it's as indelible or timeless as it's being marketed -- can remember plot points easily enough, less so key moments, barring Li'l Kendrick's comic dissolve into waterworks, the look on La Farmiga's face at the climactic Chicago scene, and Clooney with the blow dryer and the cut-out. A good film, just don't know that it's a great or particularly original one, though it unquestionably strikes an exposed topical nerve in present-day America.

Samantha Morton, lighthouse-eyed as ever, brought enormous immediacy and affecting conflict to her pivotal widow -- she must play Maria Falconetti while she's still the right age.

Funny that that had never occurred to me. Morton could do it easily.

The most effective scene for me was the one where Kendrick had to fire someone over the screen.
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, Well, I would tend to agree, plumb forgot about that. As much as i love The Clooney, and found La Farmiga typically expert and multi-valent, Li'l Kendrick's Natalie felt freshest as a character and performer, to me, anyhoo.

I'm tellin' ya, I think it was mistake rushing The Hurt Locker to dvd. It still had some theatrical life left in it considering all the awards and nominations it's getting.

i've only seen it on my Mac, three imes. Wonderful film.

That Serious Man bit is a gas. Wish it would make a difference. Maybe it will.

Nah.

I rather hesitate to call it an Important Film -- except it kinda sorta is, and instantly stands among last's year's strongest offerings, intense, restrained, trenchant and involving.