{"id":40813,"date":"2020-08-05T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-quarantine-stream-destroyer-is-an-vastly-underrated-neo-noir-flick\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:00:00","slug":"the-quarantine-stream-destroyer-is-an-vastly-underrated-neo-noir-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-quarantine-stream-destroyer-is-an-vastly-underrated-neo-noir-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Quarantine Stream: \u2018Destroyer\u2019 is an Vastly Underrated Neo-Noir Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Quarantine Stream: \u2018Destroyer\u2019 is an Vastly Underrated Neo-Noir Flick<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Quarantine Stream<\/strong>, a new series<\/a> where the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching while social<\/a> distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Movie:<\/strong>\u00a0The Destroyer<\/em><\/p>\n

Where You Can Stream It:<\/strong>\u00a0Hulu<\/p>\n

The Pitch:\u00a0<\/strong>A near-unrecognizable Nicole Kidman is a hard-boiled cop haunted by a violent tragedy in her past.<\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Quarantine Viewing:\u00a0<\/strong>It still boggles my mind that\u00a0Destroyer<\/em> seemed to come and go without much attention. The film has a meager 74% on Rotten Tomatoes and was ultimately a box office bomb. And yet\u2026I\u2019m going to go ahead and throw the word \u201cmasterpiece\u201d out there. Because that\u2019s what this is. Director Karyn Kusama brings a mix of unbearable tension and melancholy pathos, crafting a harsh, brutal LA noir flick that features one of Nicole Kidman\u2019s very best performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m mad. I\u2019m still fucking mad. It\u2019s burned a circuit in my brain.\u201d So says Detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman<\/strong>), a hollowed-out, sun-burned mess of a human being. Erin is more or less confessing to her estranged, volatile daughter (Jade Pettyjohn), pleading with her; begging her to not grow up to be a miserable, angry mess she herself has become.<\/p>\n

Destroyer<\/em><\/strong> is a bleak, often brutal film. There\u2019s nothing rosy here, and Kidman goes to hell and back throughout the course of the narrative. Kidman has already well-established her talent, and her name often lends a certain credibility to whatever she\u2019s attached to. As a result, it seems like almost a cliche to point out how good she is, but make no mistake: she\u2019s\u00a0really<\/em> good here. Some coverage of the film focused on the heavy make-up burying Kidman\u2019s face, making her look bruised and broken. But there\u2019s more to the film than that.<\/p>\n

In fact, there are two simultaneous narratives. Jumping back and forth in time, director Karyn Kusama<\/strong> and screenwriters\u00a0Phil Hay <\/strong>and Matt Manfredi<\/strong>, follow Erin in the present day, when she\u2019s a hard-drinking, hard-living mess, and also a serious of flashbacks to a big case Erin was working on that went terribly wrong. In these flashbacks, Kidman looks more like herself, and we watch as Erin goes undercover with another cop, Chris (Sebastian Stan<\/strong>). The two strike up a romantic relationship, all the while trying to not give themselves away to the violent gang they\u2019re now embedded with. The gang is lead by Silas (Toby Kebbell<\/strong>), a total psychopath who clearly has his suspicions about the pair.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the two narratives collide, and along the way, Kusama sticks close to Kidman. The actress is in virtually every frame of the film, and she commands the screen with her blunt, raw performance. This isn\u2019t Kidman simply dirtying herself up for the hell of it; she throws herself completely into Erin\u2019s fractured, furious mind. When she delivers her speech about how \u201cfucking mad\u201d she is we can feel the anger radiating off the screen.<\/p>\n

Destroyer<\/em> isn\u2019t an action flick, although there is a tense, pulse-pounding shootout that gives way to a brutal fistfight. Beyond that, though, it\u2019s more of a slow-burn mystery, and perhaps that\u2019s what threw people off. Perhaps people were hoping for a cops-and-robbers style flick and were disapp<\/a>ointed at what\u2019s essentially a character drama. Or perhaps I\u2019m just a complete weirdo for thinking this is one of the best movies of the last five years even though most people seemed to have ignored it.<\/p>\n

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