Adoration is a great movie, directed by Atom Egoyan. This movie highlights the various facades of terrorism. The role of technology and ethics governing the act of terrorism post 9/11 are depicted brilliantly in this movie.
The dialogues in this movie create stimulating ideas. The plot contains motivated social message, which are unfolded intriguingly. The hero of this story is Tom, a high schooler. He is very much distressed by the legacy of his dead parents. His teacher Sabine prompts him to play the role of a grown child of a girlfriend, who becomes pregnant and was betrayed by her boyfriend. She needs to start a journey to Israel.
The betrayed girlfriend is taken by surprise as she is stopped by the security agents. Tom imagines himself to be the child born to that woman and writes down on paper his feelings even as Sabine is narrating this story to her students.
Tom is effectively convinced by Sabine to take his musings seriously and act the part in real life and Tom airs them on the Internet on various video chat sessions. The reactions pour in from various quarters including his friends and their parents. In fact he gets so many reactions that it makes you wonder if people don't have any other job than to comment on video chats.
As a deviation from Egoyan's intrigue with potential uses and abuses of the technology, a dramatic twist is added to the plot in the form of Sabine's visit to Tom's uncle in a bid to unravel the mystery of Tom's parents. The number of concerns and ideas that Egoyan touches upon is commendable. See Egoyan's great effort - watch Adoration for free.
The role of Simone is played by Khanjian with a passion as she gives myriad speeches in her role as a talkative professor. Character of Tom is just a pawn in the grandiose setting. As an inquisitive student Bostick has done a good job asking too many questions. The character of the highly misunderstood dad Jenkin is portrayed very well and the roles of Speedman and Blanchard is subtle and effective. Technicalities are handled well too with Paul Sarossy's skilful underlit lensing adding to the excellent ambience and mood of the settings. Editing is also managed in a professional manner by Editor Susan Shipton.
The dialogues in this movie create stimulating ideas. The plot contains motivated social message, which are unfolded intriguingly. The hero of this story is Tom, a high schooler. He is very much distressed by the legacy of his dead parents. His teacher Sabine prompts him to play the role of a grown child of a girlfriend, who becomes pregnant and was betrayed by her boyfriend. She needs to start a journey to Israel.
The betrayed girlfriend is taken by surprise as she is stopped by the security agents. Tom imagines himself to be the child born to that woman and writes down on paper his feelings even as Sabine is narrating this story to her students.
Tom is effectively convinced by Sabine to take his musings seriously and act the part in real life and Tom airs them on the Internet on various video chat sessions. The reactions pour in from various quarters including his friends and their parents. In fact he gets so many reactions that it makes you wonder if people don't have any other job than to comment on video chats.
As a deviation from Egoyan's intrigue with potential uses and abuses of the technology, a dramatic twist is added to the plot in the form of Sabine's visit to Tom's uncle in a bid to unravel the mystery of Tom's parents. The number of concerns and ideas that Egoyan touches upon is commendable. See Egoyan's great effort - watch Adoration for free.
The role of Simone is played by Khanjian with a passion as she gives myriad speeches in her role as a talkative professor. Character of Tom is just a pawn in the grandiose setting. As an inquisitive student Bostick has done a good job asking too many questions. The character of the highly misunderstood dad Jenkin is portrayed very well and the roles of Speedman and Blanchard is subtle and effective. Technicalities are handled well too with Paul Sarossy's skilful underlit lensing adding to the excellent ambience and mood of the settings. Editing is also managed in a professional manner by Editor Susan Shipton.
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