Author: Stefan Pape
To approach spirituality on screen and maintain a sense of enchantment is a hurdle many a filmmaker have fallen over; to evoke these feelings of rapture without veering into mawkish territory. However as we saw in Collateral Beauty last winter, it’s not an easy balance to get right – and it’s one that Stuart Hazeldine has struggled with, in his unbearably ethereal drama The Shack. The good news is folks, it’ only two and a quarter hours long.
Sam Worthington plays Mack, who we learn from the offset was behind the murder of his father, poisoning him when the aggressive domestic abuse got too much. Forever feeling in God’s debt, the now middle-aged father of three is convinced that when his daughter is abducted and consequently killed, it’s his punishment for his own past sins. Receiving a mysterious letter directing him to a shack in the middle of nowhere,...
To approach spirituality on screen and maintain a sense of enchantment is a hurdle many a filmmaker have fallen over; to evoke these feelings of rapture without veering into mawkish territory. However as we saw in Collateral Beauty last winter, it’s not an easy balance to get right – and it’s one that Stuart Hazeldine has struggled with, in his unbearably ethereal drama The Shack. The good news is folks, it’ only two and a quarter hours long.
Sam Worthington plays Mack, who we learn from the offset was behind the murder of his father, poisoning him when the aggressive domestic abuse got too much. Forever feeling in God’s debt, the now middle-aged father of three is convinced that when his daughter is abducted and consequently killed, it’s his punishment for his own past sins. Receiving a mysterious letter directing him to a shack in the middle of nowhere,...
- 6/9/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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