Another "unconventional" film In our time, when bread and circuses are given to the people, we are increasingly moving away from the real world, in which there is a picture inverse to that presented to us by most modern films. The Chronicle is a film that shows life as it is. Without embellishment, without any distortion of reality.
The reality of the impersonally ill people and the people who are with them. After all, these are not only relatives, but also those who care for them - doctors, nurses, coming social workers. Those people who do not earn millions and billions, but those who allow to brighten up the last days on this mortal earth, those who are ready to show care when relatives are not up to their dying loved ones, those who will do all the dirty work for the same relatives.
We know these people, we know this job, but a lot of people don't like it.
They are a kind of plague doctors of our time - where death is, there they are, but they live and do what others dare not do.
To be honest, I have not visited such places in a long time and have not encountered such people. I hate it too.
I was looking for movies with Tim Roth (yes, I like his acting work) and quite accidentally came across this movie.
To my surprise, the film that received the Branch (albeit not the best film, but nevertheless) was not localized here, in eRefia, but partly it pleased me - it is much more pleasant to watch films in the original to hear the intonation, tonality, emotions invested by the actor in his role.
There is very little dialogue in the film, the text spoken by the actors is very stingy, more attention is paid to the director’s show of life. There is no embellishment here - the usual, so to speak, everyday life of a social worker.
David is a social worker who once had a wife, son and daughter, everything he needed for a happy life as a healthy adult. Then there was a disaster, after which the whole life of David went downhill. His wife put him before a choice, and he decided to leave so as not to hurt his relatives.
He became a very private and difficult to contact a person who is simply not able to conduct a little bit of simple dialogue - the stress was too strong, but becoming a kind of doctor, he needs a minimum for communication - it is enough just to perform his duties and only occasionally contact with his relatives and superiors. And he does his job honestly, doing all he can and should for his patients. Minimum dialogue, maximum action. I can't call it acting, it's just reality, it's what people don't talk about, it's what people like David do, day after day.
David misses his daughter very much, follows her in FB, but only towards the end of the film he manages to overcome a certain barrier that did not allow her to even call - he was able to meet with her and establish at least some communication that he needed.
I can’t say I’ll want to revisit the film, perhaps because of its complexity, maybe because of the urgency, maybe because of the ending.
But one time the movie is really worth watching. Just because you need to know that there are really good "other" movies out there, and maybe the movie will make you live. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?
9 out of 10
For the ending I didn't like.