Giants Being Lonely

The act that precipitates the ending is a pure mystery to me. I'd really appreciate a plot spoiler.

Giants Being Lonely is a film that people will either love or hate. It´s refreshing to see something different that truly encapsulates what it feels like to be young. This film does not chew your food for you, but leaves you to have a dialogue with it. I recommend everyone watch it because many wont understand but those who do will see the importance of a film like this. Looking forward to whats next from these young film makers.

This is a sophisticated film where every clue counts. I watched it several times and appreciated it more and more with each viewing. Abbreviated narrative and lush cinematography, it tells a tale not easy to absorb, with performances both intensely explicit and highly nuanced. There is an escalation of almost unidentifiable tension, and yet, after the crescendo, no trivialization through judgement. A classic drama mingled with the sweetness of love, love between adolescents, between adults, and between a mix of the two. And the painful reality that a single incident can be irreversible, its consequence everlasting.

Giants Being Lonely is both a paean to and nightmare of hometown life. The flashing-by visual beauty of the world captures the fleeting of time itself. We feel it set in amber. This beauty serves the emotional fevers of the teenaged boys on the ball team as well as the fevers and appetites of the starved, isolated adults of the town who feed on the boys. Amalia Culp's performance, almost mute but intensely expressive, as the coach's beautiful, terrorized, wandering wife especially stays in my memory.

A remarkable debut from a young talent to watch. Grear Patterson has done an exquisite job of capturing complicated relationships (romantic, familial, peer group), the ache of being caught up in currents beyond your control, feeling alone and invisible in a marriage, and the exhilarating terror of standing on the precipice of adulthood.