{"id":312165,"date":"2021-07-30T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:06:00","slug":"watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stillwater with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41a79ad12b5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41a79ad12b5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Stillwater_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Stillwater Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Christy_Lemire\" >Christy Lemire<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-stillwater-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Stillwater_2021\" >Stillwater (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Stillwater_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Stillwater Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/stillwater-movie-review-2021\/stillwater-movie-review-2021.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Beneath the weathered baseball cap and bushy goatee, the parade of plaid shirts and the polite replies of \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d there\u2019s a whole lot more to Bill Baker. Sure, he listens to old-school country in his pickup truck while driving between manual labor gigs and he never fails to pray before a meal, even if it\u2019s tater tots and a cherry limeade from Sonic. It seems perfectly natural to him to keep a couple of guns in his run-down Oklahoma home, and he never misses an opportunity to watch his favorite college football team.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>But there\u2019s something simmering within this collection of red-state stereotypes, and \u201cStillwater\u201d is at its best when it explores those complexities and contradictions. Beefed-up and sad-eyed, Matt Damon brings great subtlety and pathos to the role, especially when he cracks his stoic character open ever so gently and allows warmth, vulnerability, and even hope to shine through on his road to redemption. But Bill\u2019s tale of hard-earned second chances is one of many stories director Tom McCarthy is telling in \u201cStillwater,\u201d and while it\u2019s the most compelling, it also gets swallowed up almost entirely during the film\u2019s insane third act.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>, which McCarthy co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain, Marcus Hinchey, and Noe Debre, loosely takes its inspiration from the case of Amanda Knox, the American college student convicted in 2007 of killing her roommate while studying abroad in Italy. Eight years later, Knox was acquitted. \u201cStillwater\u201d moves the action to the French port city of Marseilles and introduces us to Bill\u2019s daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), after she\u2019s already served five years of a nine-year prison sentence for the murder of her lover, a young Muslim woman.<\/p>\n<p>Allison insists she\u2019s innocent; Bill resolutely believes her. And so \u201cStillwater\u201d is also the story of a father and daughter trying to mend their strained relationship as he makes frequent visits to chat and do her laundry and she pretends to care as he prattles on about Oklahoma State football. (The college campus is in\u2014that\u2019s right\u2014Stillwater, Bill and Allison\u2019s hometown. But as you\u2019ve probably guessed by now, the title refers to our hero\u2019s demeanor, as well.) \u201cLife is brutal,\u201d each of them says at one point, and one of the more intriguing elements of \u201cStillwater\u201d is the notion that being a screw-up is hereditary, which pushes against its feel-good, Hollywood-ending urges.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more\u2014so much more. Because the primary driving narrative here is the possibility that Allison can prove her innocence based on jailhouse hearsay about an elusive, young Arab man. Here, \u201cStillwater\u201d becomes a procedural reminiscent of McCarthy\u2019s Oscar best-picture winner \u201cSpotlight,\u201d as Bill knocks on doors and follows one lead after another, talking to people who either help him or don\u2019t in his efforts to exonerate his only child. In this vein, it\u2019s also about the racial tensions and socioeconomic disparities that exist in both France and the United States, and the blindly confident swagger with which some Americans carry themselves overseas\u2014even someone like Bill who is, to borrow from the Tim McGraw song, humble and kind.<\/p>\n<p>And for a big chunk of its midsection, it\u2019s about a middle-aged man forming an unexpected friendship\u2014and then a makeshift family\u2014with a single mom and her little girl. Virginie (a vibrant and charismatic Camille Cottin) and her daughter, Maya (an adorable and steely Lilou Siauvaud), give the widowed Bill a shot at righting the wrongs of his past. Virginie and Bill initially connect when she offers to help him in his investigation by making calls, translating and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly serving as his guide through an ancient\u00a0city he\u2019s barely gotten to know. The relationship makes zero sense on paper\u2014she\u2019s a bohemian actress, he\u2019s an oil-rig worker\u2014but the small kindnesses they show each other allow them to forge a bond, and allow Bill to reveal more about himself and his tortured history, piece by piece. It sounds cheesy, but surprisingly, it works.<\/p>\n<p>This is far and away the strongest section of \u201cStillwater,\u201d and if the majority of this film had focused on this understated dynamic and the quiet hope of better days to come, it would have been more than satisfying. The performances here are lovely, and Damon enjoys distinctly sweet connections with both Cottin and Siauvaud. But then it takes a significant turn into darker territory toward the end, with twists predicated on major coincidences and reckless\u00a0decisions. \u201cStillwater\u201d also becomes a far less interesting film as it slogs through its overlong running time. While it\u2019s fascinating to consider Bill\u2019s self-destructive streak rearing its head once again, even after it seems he\u2019s finally found some peace, the way it plays out is so\u00a0wild\u00a0and implausible, it feels like it was ripped from an entirely different movie and grafted on here. Within this eventful stretch, there\u2019s also a suicide attempt that\u2019s tossed in almost as a baffling afterthought, as it\u2019s never mentioned again.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the cacophony of all these plot lines converging and the weight of the messaging being conveyed is almost too much to bear. Details get spelled out and characters explain their motivations when maintaining an overall air of mystery\u00a0would have been\u00a0far\u00a0more effective. Whether or not Allison is guilty isn\u2019t the point; enjoying a\u00a0moment of stillness and\u00a0solitude in the\u00a0afternoon\u00a0sunshine is, even if it&#8217;s\u00a0fleeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now playing in theaters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christy Lemire\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/christy-lemire\/featured_Christy_Headshot.jpg\" title=\"Christy Lemire\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Christy_Lemire\"><\/span>Christy Lemire<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> &#8220;Ebert Presents At the Movies&#8221; opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor.   Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stillwater movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/stillwater-2021\/large_stillwater-poster.jpeg\" title=\"Stillwater movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stillwater_2021\"><\/span> Stillwater (2021) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"R\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated R for language. <\/p>\n<p> 140 minutes <meta content=\"PT140M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/tributes\/ron-popeil-1935-2021\/thumb_Screen_Shot_2021-07-29_at_8.47.58_AM.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 21 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/sitting-in-the-undefined-philip-ettinger-on-the-evening-hour\/thumb_04_100D.4edit.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/connection-is-the-answer-edson-oda-on-nine-days\/thumb_nine_3.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/festivals\/art-alone-endures-a-parisians-take-on-the-2021-cannes-film-festival\/thumb_d37c2c1579fb04f50ef7cd2ef0d9f74bed9bbdd0.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/stillwater-movie-review-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Stillwater Online&#8221; Beneath the weathered baseball cap and bushy goatee, the parade of plaid shirts and the polite replies of \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d there\u2019s a whole lot more to Bill Baker. 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