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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Adoration, an enthralling movie

By Jack Simmons

Adoration is an effort by producer/director Atom Egoyan to portray different angles of terrorism after 9/11. This includes revealing outward appearances that are deceptive, role of technology in initiating dialogue and moral ethics that govern terrorism acts.

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 girl does not know that her boyfriend has kept a bomb in her luggage. The security agents stop her. Sabine narrates this story to her students. Tom, who is greatly moved by this story, imagines himself as the unborn child. He expresses his vacillating feeling on a piece of paper.

Sabine, the teacher convinces Tom and takes his rumination on the video chat sessions on the web. His classmates and other people from all over the world, who participate in the chat sessions, give multitude reactions. The myriad reactions make us wonder whether the people do not have anything to do rather than just giving reactions on the video chats on the internet.

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 free online.

While Tom's character is merely a pawn in a grandiose narrative, Khanjian, who plays the role of Simone with lan gives speech after speech coming through as a highly talkative professor. Bostick plays the role of an inquisitive student asking too many questions. Blanchard and Speedman play a subtle and impressive role and so does Jenkins the dad who is misunderstood a lot. Skilful underlit lensing by Paul Sarossy enhances the mood and expert juggling by editor Susan Shipton is carried out with panache.

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