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Eye Of God

1997, Movie, R, 84 mins

Eye Of God: Review

EYE OF GOD
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Grim and unsparing, this small-scale drama about religious fixation and obsessive love takes its own sweet time telling a haunting story of strangled hopes, seething anger and explosive violence. A teenager is found walking by a deserted road side, mute and covered with someone else's blood. An avuncular sheriff (Hal Holbrook) coaxes the story out of the traumatized youngster, and the film slips back and forth between the present and the recent past to tell a tale of inevitable tragedy. Lonely, orphaned waitress Ainsley (Martha Plimpton) lives in her parents' house in a dying town, and begins corresponding with Jack (Kevin Anderson), who's found God in jail. They get married shortly after his release, and his rigid and possessive nature begins to poison their relationship almost immediately. First it's just pressure to attend church with him, then Ainsley loses her job and he forbids her to get another. Finally he demands that she stay in the house all day until he gets home. Ainsley's pregnancy brings matters to the boiling point: Jack is thrilled at the thought of consolidating his fantasy of family life, while she feels trapped and desperate. First-time writer-director Tim Blake Nelson elicits fine performances from the entire cast, including the young leads and veteran Hal Holbrook. The film's narrative rushes headlong toward inescapable tragedy, building inexorably toward a climax that's diminished neither by its inevitability nor Nelson's decision to spare viewers the last gory detail. This is truly an instance in which imagining is worse than seeing. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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