Should you watch Nocturnal Animals?
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Nocturnal Animals
Film · 2016
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
The sides of Nocturnal Animals
- A gallery owner reading her ex-husband's novel
- A story inside the story
- A night on a Texas highway
Nocturnal Animals is good for you if…
- you like cold, elegant images.
- you like a roadside scene that's hard to breathe through.
- you like a story within a story, where the novel Susan reads keeps echoing her own past.
Nocturnal Animals is bad for you if…
- brutal scenes in the novel Susan reads are too much for you.
- cruelty told without comfort is too heavy for you.
About: revenge · regret · art
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