Tonom McCarthy is the director who gave us the Oscar-winning film spotlight, A movie worth watching. But this is something that needs to be forgotten: a chaotic, wrong-tuned, badly performed, director uncertain and frankly suspicious drama is such a bad thing.It is inspired by Amanda Knox caseAfter murdering her roommate in Perugia and British exchange student Meredith Kercher in 2007, the young American woman spent four years acquitted in an Italian prison. The film created a fictional quasi-Knox character, and stupidly convicted the fictional character of some kind of silly misconduct. The real Amanda Knox probably thought she should not be discredited.
The operation moved to Marseille, France. Abigail Breslin plays Alison Baker, a young woman from Stillwater, Oklahoma, a visiting American student who was convicted of murdering a lover and is currently serving a sentence there. Matt Damon Play Alison’s father Bill, a construction worker. He came to Marseille (presumably on a tourist visa, although he seemed to stay there indefinitely, working on construction sites). But now, he is busy solving the case, proving his daughter’s innocence, and catching the person who really did it.
While he was there, Bill-an all-American, family-loving man, he prayed and said grace, but it should be a “fuck”-began one of the most impossible relationships in the history of film, and began a romance. Love local stage actor and single mother Virgenie (Camille Curtin). This role played an important role in mediation between Bill and the locals, both as his translator and as his lover. Her young daughter likes Bill very much. But he and Virgeny are really not right together. Even in their closest moments, Damon and Cottin looked like they had just been introduced at a party in Los Angeles, and they had nothing in common.
Damon got into a terrible predicament in this movie. Of course, he must be compassionate—he must be Matt Damon—and this movie does not allow him to be anyone else. But just as importantly, he was a bit of a failure, his daughter did not trust him, and explained his extremely reckless violent behavior, which this movie never really admitted. He seems to be just a good dull boy, always wearing a hat, and faithfully appearing in prison visits.
During a football match in Marseille, Bill happened to catch a glimpse of the young man who was widely suspected of murdering his daughter, and began an inexplicable act of vigilance. Wow! No matter how this terrible movie is sliced, it is a very creepy, lecterian thing for Damon, and this drama cannot accept it.
Another bizarre note is the scene of Alison attempting to commit suicide in prison-apparently to assure us that she is also suffering. But this unfortunate incident was simply forgotten: there was no scene in which Bill and Alison discussed it. Is it lost in editing? This is really weird.
There are some good people in this terrible movie whose talents are wasted. The only thing to do now is to forget all this.
