Indignation

Just a remarkably well made film. No real weaknesses, acting is on point and there are plenty of show stealing scenes. I felt transported, uncomfortable, trapped, awkward and I was all of these things while sharing the entire cinema with a grandma during repressed Jewish hand-job scenes.

A wonderfully twisted version of 'sexually-repressed-boy-meets-impulsive-girl' wherein the characters never make sense of the impact they have on one another until its too late. Performances are actually flawless and the film manages to be emotionally sophisticated in spite of its simplicity. Three dialogue driven scenes are all in the running for the best of the year. I haven't read Roth yet, but I may have to now.

Viewed July 29, 2016. I'd readily consider this one of the best adaptations I've ever seen, despite never having read the original novel by Philip Roth. This is because Indignation is so richly written that it feels like it has the scope of a great novel - every character is fully developed and real, and it winds its ways around multiple narrative and thematic threads without ever feeling digressive or purposeless. Very little happens in it, but it gutted me just the same.

This film took me by surprise. Much better than expected. Powerful and touching.

In the early 50s, a New Jersey Jew (Logan Lerman) goes to a Christian college in Ohio, where he falls tragically in love with a troubled fellow student (Sarah Gadon), whilst butting heads with the hard-headed dean (Tracy Letts). A poignant depiction of frustrated happiness and moral oppression, superbly written and acted (the scenes between Letts and Lerman are phenomenal), and modestly but effectively mounted by first-time director James Schamus.

Feels more like a brief portrait of a student's life than a story that comes full circle, and in that regard a little aimless. Definitely quality, especially those "stimulating" conversations with the Dean.

Compelling and thought-provoking. Especially the scenes with the dean and the chemistry between Lerman and Gadon are very watchable.

Although 21st century American society needs yet another film about the dangers of traditional models of authority (as opposed to letting young people "follow their hearts") like it needs another divorce or teen pregnancy, novelist Roth has managed to come up with an engaging and organic storyline that does exactly that w/out ever feeling clichéd, manipulative or even slightly false. The entitled intrusiveness of the dean feels particularly timely given the wannabe dictator running the country

Pacing seemed off also the dialogue often seemed off. Looks like most would disagree with that assessment. Ending felt far to abrupt, and force tragedy.

Prejudice and intolerance against the different. It seems human kind will never change. The confrontations between the student and the dean are stellar.

The novel is better for sure.

My favorite film this year....wonderfully acted with several very memorable scenes.

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above average for this kind of handsome wartime period piece, but falls short of its aim to distill the essence of the novel; cutting the fat out of roth only simplifies and normalises. the way emotional scenes are sometimes undermined by jarring cuts hints at the more savagely ironic adaptation it could've been.

James Schamus is 56 -- a little late, you might think, to start a career as a director. But as a long-time screenwriter (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), producer (Brokeback Mountain), and savvy film executive who championed such talents as Ang Lee, Todd Haynes and the Coen brothers, Schamus knows his way around the business and the art of movies. With Indignation, his fierce, feeling adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel, Schamus kicks off a new phase in his career with impressive finesse.

While he finds himself in, shall we say, interesting predicaments, I never quite warmed to the protagonist as a character. None of the adaptiations of Roth's novels that I've seen have been great, but overall, this is a good and well-acted little coming of age tale.

Filmen är baserad på Philip Roths bok med samma namn. Liksom de böcker av Roth jag har läst är filmen fylld med känslor som skuld, kärlek och indignation. Den är stark filmupplevelse och dessutom en mycket snygg sådan. Skådespeleriet är utmärkt. Rekommenderas!

Much of the story is ordinary and unremarkable, but the characters are anything but. Sarah Gadon is an absolutely gorgeous, unrelentingly desirable angel. Logan Lerman was pleasing as the lead. I really liked the masterful sequence of intellectual arguments during the meeting with the dean. I'll remember miss Olivia Hutton for a while. Entertaining and worthwhile. The ending kind of sucked though.

Inconsistent, but better than I expected from a Hollywood adapted screenplay. The story is more unusual than it first seems. The first, lengthy scene with Dean Caldwell is the best in the movie, and I wish the rest of it had that resolution and depth. There are nice strokes of psychological subtext elsewhere, but a lot of the Olivia stuff fell flat, for me. She just isn't fleshed out enough to save her from being just the troubled goddess cliche.

Should've starred the dean instead of the bland atheist cute boy. Yes your read well: Bland atheist cute lil boy.

An old-fashioned, highly intelligent tragedy of societal pressures that in the end made me feel properly oppressed.