Adoration (2008)

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Siskoid
Egoyan's Adoration is line with his earlier films - a non-chronological structure that makes the film unfold like a mystery for the audience to solve, human relationships filtered through a proxy, Arsinée Khanjian's participation, and a family secret that haunts the protagonists. Adoration is about Simon, a teenager who lost both his parents at a young age, and who, as part of a school project initiated by an oddball teacher (Khanjian), creates a fiction in which his father was a terrorist who had once attempted to explode a plane with his pregnant wife on board. It's the first of several "emotional proxies" used by Egoyan throughout the film as the boy works out his feelings about how his father's role in both parents' accidental(?) death. Of course, Simon becomes the subject of debate on the Internet, with various live video chat rooms coming in to expose this raw nerve in our society's skin. As usual, Egoyan creates an extreme family situation, but manages to find a truth we can all recognize about trauma and healing. 10 years 4 months ago
Neville
Too much emotion, too many ideas, and too little coherence. 12 years 8 months ago