Outside In is a needed progression from
Lynn Shelton who can’t make a satirizing film to save her life apart from Laggies though that movies message for
women to find a rich man to lean on and though outside ins portrayal of
imprisoned men being painfully and wrongfully white, outside in delivers us
what Lynn Shelton should been doing it the first place.
Certain lines here and there
throughout the movie makes the films atmosphere feel realer and realer and
express Lynn Shelton’s slight talent in creating realistic interactions with
her characters. The real location of Granite Falls also lends its natural
beauty and Mundane yet quaint infrastructure to sell the realism of this story
with the differentiating housing structures of it’s characters.
Lynn Shelton does her best
writing here, subtlety exposing ones jealously and uncertainty with bursts of a
character’s joyous explanation and opposing characters short handed questioning
responses of disappointment accompanied with sharp core lines towards
someone’s shaming truth. Lynn Shelton can’t hold back dialogue wise with this
recent entry.
Edie Falco plays her most
vulnerable role yet being charming and rest assured while uncertain and broken
at the same time. Jay Duplass, though stereotypical at times plays ex convict
Chris with a painstaking sincerity, that’s hard to watch but believably so. And
Kaitlyn Dever gives a bold portrayal as Edie Falco’s daughter, playing her
confident and troubled but human is every way.
Outside In has a few flaws in
its directing but considering Lynn Shelton’s past films and her unfinished
style in general, Outside In is her most gritty film yet but just as satisfying
as Laggies.
- Maurice Jones
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