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Midnight Special Movie Review (2. How far would you go to protect your child? What if saving. him meant letting him go? Jeff Nichols’ brilliant “Midnight Special” weaves.

John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, and Stephen King bouncing throughout. So many modern blockbusters err on the side of hand- holding. There’s this bizarre concern by Hollywood. It is a breathtaking. Romantic Horror Movies Entertainment (2015). Advertisement. Nichols, who also wrote the film, plunges us into the action. Two men—Roy (Michael Shannon, who has appeared in.

Nichols film) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton)—are in a motel room, watching a. The boy is in between the. His name is Alton. Jaeden Lieberher), and he’s special. He’s so special that an entire religious. Calvin Meyer (Sam Shepard).

As Roy and. Lucas flee into the night with Alton in the backseat and wearing night vision goggles. Calvin’s. compound is raided. It turns out everyone is looking for Alton. The FBI brings in a specialist to meet with Calvin’s flock. Paul Sevier (Adam Driver), trying to figure what they know about the boy. It turns out that the cult of Alton. It also. turns out that these numeric sequences mean something to the government, and.

Finally, the numbers seem to be pointing. Alton, Roy and Lucas to a specific location. Lucas is one of the recently converted—through a special power that Alton has to convey something transcendent through beams that shoot from his eye—but Roy's devotion is purely parental.

Both men need to get Alton there in. The drive of Roy, Alton’s father, is made clear in an early. He sees their license plate.

Roy and Lucas draw on him. Is. their mission important enough to kill a cop? Roy’s drive to do what he.

Lucas’ purpose as committed? And how will Alton’s mother, played by Kirsten. Dunst, respond? It’s a testament to Nichols’ direction that we trust that we are in the. Advertisement. And the final destination for that journey, while I would. Alton being “special” could easily be read as an allegory for a sick child, one who is not like. There is also an undeniable story of faith buried in “Midnight.

Special”—about believing in something unseen, something greater than ourselves. Stone captures the natural world almost as another character (as he did in “Take Shelter” and “Mud”) and makes a work of art out of a sequence that hinges on a sunrise.

Nichols and Stone's compositions are completed by Wingo’s score, which often drives us to the film’s emotions as it goes daringly dialogue- free for large chunks of the action. In the end, that’s what I take away from “Midnight Special”—the.

It is images from the film that pass through my. Nichols is. the rare filmmaker who understands that this is what we take away from the best. Sure, we quote our favorite lines and do impressions of characters, but. Sometimes forever. Movies On Blu Ray Dvd Patti Cakes (2017).