Light of My Life

Feels like The Road but with more talking and less cannibalism. Luckily the leads are both talented and have good chemistry.

Seems like it's really trying to be a movie about the anxieties of being a single father raising a girl who is approaching puberty. Never really clarifies to what extent such anxieties are the result of the world's having regressed and to what extent they could be overprotectiveness: a generous interpretation would say that this lack of clarity is in fact subtlety. Still, there is something a little cloying about everything here, which tends to go nowhere, despite the principals being very good.

The slow pace and focus on the father and daughter and not what is going on around them really works for this movie.

A good story about a pair of good people avoiding other people to stay together and alive. Like a lot of similar themed films this one skirts around the edges of why the world is as it is and to the films benefit that makes it much better than if everything was explained.

It took 10-15 minutes to do ANYTHING (seriously, it was mostly just a story being told) and I thought I was going to hate this, but then after that the slow pace won me over and it never committed anything that bad again. I felt for the dad and his kid, thought it was tense when it had to be, good music and cinematography. I guess it doesn't do anything that substantial or original but what it does it does well, minus the beginning. The last line of dialogue was really touching.

Finds beauty in human relationships instead of wallowing in their suffering like a lot of these post apocalyptic films do. The indoor fight scenes at the end are shot surprisingly well.

Congrats to Casey Affleck who wrote, directed, produced and starred in this quiet, sensitive, emotional and intense drama, involving a loving father and daughter.

One of the best drama movies. The story the father told and the story his daughter told back are priceless. What is Love? What is survival? Cassie Affleck made sure to provide some pretty good answers there. This movie deserves all the credits. The acting, the script, the overall atmosphere.

Forgot to rate this. If I had to guess, I’m pretty sure I would’ve given it a 55-65 or so, so I’m putting it at 60 for now.

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ultimately too simplistic and sweet, which may be the product of affleck's need to repair his tattered image, but my idea of a comfort blanket is this post-apocalyptic father-daughter trudge pitched somewhere between LEAVE NO TRACE, THE ROAD and the telltale walking dead games.

Touching movie. With some great shots and feel. I could help but feel that the violence was misplaced and masturbatory... B

Affleck and Pniowsky have very good chemistry in this talky drama. But the fight scenes towards the end were good too!

A very watchable confluence of Children of Men and The Road filmed in the style of a Van Sant movie. What it lacks in novelty, it more than makes up with a tense, minimalist scirpt, great performances from the entire cast, and cinematography that's nothing short of arresting. I particularly enjoyed how a lot of the dangers in this film's dystopia are left implicit. It lets the imagination run rampant and makes for a much better thrill ride than any gore-effects-laden splatterfests.

It gets almost soporifically slow in a couple of sequences, but the two central performances give the film all the life and poignancy it needs.

How do I go back in time so this can be new to me again

Compelling work here from the leads, and Affleck's directorial choices made sense to me. The limited focus evokes McCarthy's The Road (which was even more mysterious vis a vis the cause of the world's troubles), while the father-daughter camping reminds me of Granik's Leave No Trace (though Affleck chooses to focus exclusively on the two main characters, where Granik goes for something broader). I appreciated the hopeful open-endedness of the conclusion here. Very childlike in that way.

It really felt like the weakest isolationist, vagabond stories of its type, mainly because it overindulges Affleck as a 7 minute per scene monologue artist of omniscient greatness for his daughter, and the film values conversation above living life and there being drama. After nothing happened for 60 minutes I turned it off. I never really liked Affleck but now I dont think I will watch another movie with him as a lead again.