dianeseattle
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I just watched "Molly Bloom" on Netflix and will be trying to sift through the thickness of the dialog in order to review it, and will post it here.
But one actor in the movie, Chris O'Dowd, probably gave the best performance of his career, and it was a highlight of Molly Bloom.
You may know O'Dowd from Bridesmaids, where he played Officer Rhodes. Or you may know him front television in Get Shorty. Or maybe you know him from the series Family Tree on Prime Video. Or you may have seen him mis-cast and utterly wasted in the overrated waste of time film, Jessica Jones.
I know him because of his indescribably amazing performance in Calvary, with Brendan Gleason, many years ago. That's the reason I recognized him in Bridesmaids. And even though The Troubles and Irish Catholicixm and masculinity are as foreign to me as being black, or being a man, or the million other things I could never comprehend or be, being sexually molested by a minister is not. And there's a particular horror of injustice when the minister goes on to have a life with kids and money and is respected by everyone in the community, even though he has destroyed your ability ever to have a normal sex life and should have been executed for it. Yes, I think pedophilia should be a capital crime, and I have hundreds of friends who would agree with me, sadly.
But that's not entirely what the film was about, and Chris O'Dowd's performance and reason for living (as Jack in the movie) is far more complex than a single horrific violation would make it.
Chris O'Dowd, in Molly's Game, gives a performance like no other. I have never seen him manage an accent where his Irish brogue didn't peek through, but he does Brooklyn proud, and the words the author put in his mouth help him a lot with that. I was impressed and delighted.
If you watch Molly's Game and see how he does, you might take the opportunity to rent Calvary as a bookend, and because it's bold and important.
But one actor in the movie, Chris O'Dowd, probably gave the best performance of his career, and it was a highlight of Molly Bloom.
You may know O'Dowd from Bridesmaids, where he played Officer Rhodes. Or you may know him front television in Get Shorty. Or maybe you know him from the series Family Tree on Prime Video. Or you may have seen him mis-cast and utterly wasted in the overrated waste of time film, Jessica Jones.
I know him because of his indescribably amazing performance in Calvary, with Brendan Gleason, many years ago. That's the reason I recognized him in Bridesmaids. And even though The Troubles and Irish Catholicixm and masculinity are as foreign to me as being black, or being a man, or the million other things I could never comprehend or be, being sexually molested by a minister is not. And there's a particular horror of injustice when the minister goes on to have a life with kids and money and is respected by everyone in the community, even though he has destroyed your ability ever to have a normal sex life and should have been executed for it. Yes, I think pedophilia should be a capital crime, and I have hundreds of friends who would agree with me, sadly.
But that's not entirely what the film was about, and Chris O'Dowd's performance and reason for living (as Jack in the movie) is far more complex than a single horrific violation would make it.
Chris O'Dowd, in Molly's Game, gives a performance like no other. I have never seen him manage an accent where his Irish brogue didn't peek through, but he does Brooklyn proud, and the words the author put in his mouth help him a lot with that. I was impressed and delighted.
If you watch Molly's Game and see how he does, you might take the opportunity to rent Calvary as a bookend, and because it's bold and important.