The Hunter (2011)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A specialist is hired by a biotech company to track, kill and despoil possibly the last surviving Tasmanian tiger, but as he works in close proximity to green campaigners, local rednecks and potential competitors he also finds himself drawn into the lives of the widow and two children with whom he lodges.
Review:
Like The American this is a film about a professional with whom we should have no sympathy coming to realise that he can no longer stomach the cost of what he is doing. The direction is slow, repetitive and forensic in its detail, and Dafoe makes for an absorbing subject, with his iPod of baroque classics and scruples about how he takes his bath. Ultimately both he and his prey face the intractable truth that the animal, so coveted for its mystique and the biological secrets it houses, is better off dead, and it were better he than someone else who pulled the trigger. An interesting moral paradox on which to end; a pity that the reunion with the boy is not cut three shots or so earlier on the medium close-up of Dafoe's face.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A specialist is hired by a biotech company to track, kill and despoil possibly the last surviving Tasmanian tiger, but as he works in close proximity to green campaigners, local rednecks and potential competitors he also finds himself drawn into the lives of the widow and two children with whom he lodges.
Review:
Like The American this is a film about a professional with whom we should have no sympathy coming to realise that he can no longer stomach the cost of what he is doing. The direction is slow, repetitive and forensic in its detail, and Dafoe makes for an absorbing subject, with his iPod of baroque classics and scruples about how he takes his bath. Ultimately both he and his prey face the intractable truth that the animal, so coveted for its mystique and the biological secrets it houses, is better off dead, and it were better he than someone else who pulled the trigger. An interesting moral paradox on which to end; a pity that the reunion with the boy is not cut three shots or so earlier on the medium close-up of Dafoe's face.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A specialist is hired by a biotech company to track, kill and despoil possibly the last surviving Tasmanian tiger, but as he works in close proximity to green campaigners, local rednecks and potential competitors he also finds himself drawn into the lives of the widow and two children with whom he lodges.
Review:
Like The American this is a film about a professional with whom we should have no sympathy coming to realise that he can no longer stomach the cost of what he is doing. The direction is slow, repetitive and forensic in its detail, and Dafoe makes for an absorbing subject, with his iPod of baroque classics and scruples about how he takes his bath. Ultimately both he and his prey face the intractable truth that the animal, so coveted for its mystique and the biological secrets it houses, is better off dead, and it were better he than someone else who pulled the trigger. An interesting moral paradox on which to end; a pity that the reunion with the boy is not cut three shots or so earlier on the medium close-up of Dafoe's face.