Nebraska (Dir. Alexander Payne/2013)
Sideways Director
Alexander Payne has shown his share of conflicted men. In Nebraska, Payne’s most confident film to date, we travel across the
states as frail seventy-year-old Woody (Bruce Dern) is taken to Lincoln by his
considerate and compassionate son David (Will Forte). On the promise of
$1,000,000, Woody is convinced that spam in his letterbox is real, spurring the
road-trip - but as they take a detour to visit relatives, the pair realise that
blood lines does not guarantee kindness. Shot in stark black and white, Payne
directs Nebraska with a clear focus
on generational differences and modern expectations. While Woody reveals how
his Uncles help build his family home, his own brothers resent and argue that
they are due a “token” from his assumed jackpot. An alcoholic and distant
father, Woody is a broken man with his own cross to bear proving how an aging
father deserves dignity.
Rating: 9/10
Rating: 9/10
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