Interesting jumble of social messages in Adoration
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Adoration is a great movie, directed by Atom Egoyan. This movie highlights the various facades of terrorism. The role of technology and ethics governing the act of terrorism post 9/11 are depicted brilliantly in this movie.
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 girlfriend doesn’t realize she has been duped by her boyfriend who planted a bomb in her luggage and is stopped by the security agents. When Sabine, the teacher narrates this story to her students, Tom imagines himself to be the unborn child and expresses his ambivalent feelings on a piece of paper.
Tom is effectively convinced by Sabine to take his musings seriously and act the part in real life and Tom airs them on the Internet on various video chat sessions. The reactions pour in from various quarters including his friends and their parents. In fact he gets so many reactions that it makes you wonder if people don’t have any other job than to comment on video chats.
The plot is given a twist with Sabine visiting Tom’s uncle to find out the mystery behind the death of Tom’s actual parents. This is a welcome aberration from Egoyan’s fascination with uses and abuses of technology. Egoyan has however touched upon numerous concerns and handled them effectively. Watch how he has expertly touched various issues in this interesting film and watch Adoration 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.