Focus: a film

Willy Lomax meets that fellow out of The Crucible.

Funny nowadays to think of anti-semitism in the USA. Probably why that theme was chosen.

Shows how a pair of spectacles can make all the difference.

Vaguely reminiscent of Dogville, but more optimistic.

A few too many epiphanal moments.

Better than The Shipping News.

For a while there I thought it was going too be about homosexuality. That too was probably deliberate.

Were the principal characters’ inconsistencies consistent with our lived lives?

William H Macey, an impressive performance of its kind, but I’m irritated with the Yank thing of sticking a letter between first and last name.

The romantic scenes were naturally awkward, especially the initial ones, but in reality they probably would’ve been more so. The focus there was a little distant. After all, the principal focus was on courage and sometimes lack thereof.

The bad guys were too one-dimensional. They sometimes tried to provide extra dimension through facial expression but the storyline didn’t back them up.

The whole of the film was reduced to this – should we speak out or shouldn’t we? Should we fight or shouldn’t we? This narrowing was its strength, and its weakness.

The final scene struck me as painfully overplayed.