The law of attraction going real bad.. I usually check out the genre before I watch a movie. The Nest, we're being told is a drama, romance, well, for me it was a tragedy, literally.
The acting is nothing than exceptional, also the sound usage which includes lots of nuances of silence, mostly that kind of heavy silence that induces the feeling that something very bad is about to happen, it kind of made me feel for the characters from the very beginning.
Most of the basic story line can be called predictable, the situation of the chachters has been already experienced by most of us, in other movies, books or/and real life but.. The Nest has achieved to make it surprising, entertaining, gripping.
It amazed me that from the first moments of the movie, with the seemingly happy and idealistic, cozy routine line of family life the creators achieved to send signals that this is not the real thing, it's not the story because more is going to be reviled along the way.
It's also a romance, yes but not your average kind, not the kind that one would expect, for me it was a romance with everything from one's surroundings, people, animals, nature, objects, feelings, the nest one builds from and for love.
I watched The Nest yesterday, on the very first day of the year and I remember I had my notebook close to me, with a blank page (naturally since it was January the 1th.) so I can write down whatever comes to me about the movie but it remained quite blank until the fallowing day because I couldn't make out what I could say about it, I needed time to organize this experience. I guess it's mostly about how not to confuse one's self confidence and abilities with greed and blindness because there's only a thin line there like the case between love and hate, also present here by the way, and, of course gratitude (it can be a difficult one to spot and to hold on to).
It's a veritable experience, a story of beauty in all it's possible forms, an experience that "nails" one down in front of the screen, without feeling the need to check the phone or take a brake to go smoking.