Stillwater [2021] - Movie Review
A father landed in an unfamiliar country, surrounded by unfamiliar faces & culture, to give her daughter & himself a second chance!
by Bodhisattya Pal
Stillwater promised to be a thriller with tenseful hunt for clues, violent revenges & emotional flashbacks. Matt Damon was perfect to be a large, strong & violent father looking for the real culprit for whom his little girl is suffering in a foreign jail. But nothing like that happened; the movie followed a different approach! Stillwater is actually a real gentle movie where Damon is a 'yes ma'am' type calm American father with an eagle tatoo on his arm & an unusual job to do for which he is not 'trustworthy'! And this thing srprised me!
Stillwater doesn't consist of any chase sequence, any thrilling fight, any masterful court room scenes; its different; it actually consists of a process to survive in a foreign land, to love someone from all the heart, to make ownself a better human from a 'fucked-up' being! And for this, I loved this work more than I should!
Stillwater never tried to become one of those light speed thrillers or a slow burner; it tried to become unique in its own way and there lies it's beauty.
Offcourse it is a long movie, offcourse it could have been less than two hours easily but still it is one of the most finely crafted, well acted movie I have come across this year. I adore the relationship between the little french girl Maya & Bill, I adore the simplicity, I adore how Stillwater shifted its focus so gently, and, I adore this movie...
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