Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon in INDIGNATION. Photo Credit: Courtesy Roadside Attractions
– By Cate Marquis –
Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars
Indignation is indeed one theme in the movie INDIGNATION, based on Phillip Roth’s 2008 novel of the same name, along with death, life, and the “what if” of choices made. Set in 1951, young college freshman Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman) is filled with indignation on several levels, even before coming to Winesburg College in Ohio from his working-class home in Newark, New Jersey. The Korean War, which Marcus avoids with his college deferment, is a looming presence throughout the story.
INDIGNATION perfectly captures both the look and the feel of a repressive, restrictive, conformist 1950s America. It was a buttoned-down time of tightly controlled emotions, with World War II still in the near past, Cold War commie-hunting in full swing and women safely back in traditional roles, and the youth culture and freethinking of the 1960s still in the future.
READ THE FULL REVIEW AT WE ARE MOVIE GEEKS:
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2016/08/indignation-review-2/
- By Cate Marquis - The Muny decides to wrap up it's 2026 season with…
(L-R) Sam Harvey as Sky Masterson and Matthew Schatz as Nathan Detroit in Stages' "Guys…
- By Cate Marquis - New Jewish Theater's "Job" is a searing two-person drama set…
Gregory Lee Rodriguez and Kyla Stone, in the Muny's MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. Photo…
Matt Newlin as Tennessee Williams, in First Run Theater's TENN at the Kranzberg. Courtesy of…
(L-R) Nick Rashad Burroughs, Jawan M. Jackson, Elijah Ahmad Lewis, James T. Lane, Daniel Yearwood…