WRAPPING 2009: MY SON MY SON WHAT HAVE YE DONE

MY SON MY SON WHAT HAVE YE DONE -Sabers and pickpocket ostriches! Michael Shannon is on a kind of roll in taking and handling with very lean efficiency these very bat maddie characters. In Revolutionary Road, Shannon's character John Givings tells Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio), "Plenty of people are on to the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness." In William Friedkin's 2006 film, "Bug" Shannon played a paranoiac drifter that introduces Ashley Judd's character Agnes to a claustrophobic nightmare of reality as a grand conspiracy of bugs begin to infest their lives.
My Son, My Son ... will be a lot of fun for many of us. Great loads of humor, very macabre, american gothic material fresh out of the pages of O'Connor and carried in a barrel to the ostrich farm by Werner Herzog.