Nitram

A new Psychological drama/thriller based on real events from Australia about a mentally ill individual who caused one of the biggest massacres in Australia, where he shot 35 people. Nitram lives an isolated life full of frustration because he can't fit in anywhere. That changes a little when he meets a wealthy older woman, but this relationship leads to tragedy. His loneliness and anger grows and this will lead to one of the biggest massacres that took place in Tasmania in 1996. The film is slower, focuses on the psychological development of the main character and it's quite disappointing that the expected massacre at the end doesn't happen, so 22 July and The Hater are two classes above for me. For those who like these genre films based on true events, this one is worth a watch, but not shocking enough in my eyes. Story 4/5, Action 0/5, Humor 0/5, Violence 1/5, Fun 3/5 Music 3/5, Visuals 3/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 2/5, Emotion 3/5, Actors 3/5. 6/10. (11/01/2022)

This is a rather raw probe into the life of a socially maladjusted man. Right from the opening minutes, it is clear that Nitram is not going to be a hero you want to root for. Even though the story flows at a rather leisurely pace and there are no torrents of blood or emotional pressure, I dare say that the overall film is much more hard-hitting than if it were the other way around. Caleb Landry Jones fully deserves recognition and accolades for his absolutely perfect portrayal in the title role. (80%) (04/11/2021)

How cathartic, after all the motivational, reduced, updated bio-shit, to be able to rely again on Kurzel and his description of a hideous dirty world where nothing is right and nothing is fair. Nitram doesn't shy away from its Tasmanian Forrest Gump, but neither is the film willing to portray his environment in a way that offers him any way out of his situation (despite the fact that he's a rich guy who travels the world freely), which is why the film's denouement ultimately relies on gun-control advocacy, simply because it wants to convince us that the conditions for creating lone gunmen will always be there and therefore the only way to reduce them is to reduce the number of guns in society. This premise, however, stumbles a bit with the comic scene of illegally purchasing automatic weapons. But I still think that addition was an afterthought, and Kurzel and Grant had to protect them in order to secure money for their next inspection of the irrevocably damaged mind. Knowing that sometime between The Snowtown Murders and Nitram, Kurzel managed to convince Fox he could start a crowd-pleasing franchise based on a successful computer game amuses me like little else. Hopefully the eggheads will forget about it and the next Star Wars will be made by, say, the Safdie bros. (17/05/2022)