Dark Waters - chilling and great

Is it really that chilling or is it just slow and boring like michael clayton (which gave me one the best naps in a movie theater I've ever had)?

How long is the film? How come it doesnt say on fandango?

My favorite part in the trailer is when that guy says “That’s like saying ‘what if I swallowed a tire?’”

The funniest line I’ve heard in a long time.

Very good movie. I foind mydelf alittle bit increduloua amdnfrustrated at how ogstinate dupont was/is and also the herd mentality on their behalf. Kind of qlarming.  But morewo, the movie hust had a good way of staying matter of fact while conveying the compelling nqture of the story.

I am not a big fan of his acting style lately, I miss 2000-2007 Mark Ruffalo when his performances felt more nuanced and subtle. A great aspect of what am talking about would be Foxcatcher actually.

ah so this performance is more a return to form for Ruffalo.

yeah man. My brain is numb from marvel and the conjuring movies. I want some good old fashioned police and political thrillers. But not tinker tailor soldier spy that movie was terrible. I liked Den Of Thieves, 21 Bridges, Official Secrets, and this one.

I agree with Nora—Dark Waters is indeed "chilling," or haunting, and a very good movie. It reminds me of the Best Picture recipient Spotlight from four years ago, a mystery unfolding to expose an enormous societal scandal and its powerful concealment. But Dark Waters is quieter than Spotlight and literally darker. Director Todd Haynes' decision to film nearly every daylight scene in extremely overcast conditions—or at least to create that appearance—sometimes seems a bit much, but that decision also never fails to work. Indeed, what makes Dark Waters especially effective is its willingness to create a solemn look and ominous mood and just stick to them throughout the film. In other words, the movie never tries to be more—or less—than what it is. It just showcases the story and lets it speak for itself, largely avoiding narrative and visual devices that cue banal melodrama. As critic Jake Coyle writes, "Here, [Haynes] has sucked much of the Hollywood out of the social-justice drama, while leaving certain touchstones."

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Occasionally, the movie slightly wavers in terms of avoiding melodramatic devices (a gratuitous zoom at one critical juncture stands out), but it never does so too badly or for too long. There are certainly emotional scenes and moments, but they are muted and mature. Almost like "dark water" itself, the movie slowly seeps into cracks and crevices, quietly unfolding at diner tables and banquet halls, in court rooms and living rooms, in cities and countrysides, over the course of years and decades. Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins both deliver intricate, realistic, subtle performances, as one might expect, but the surprise is Anne Hathaway as Ruffalo's wife. Sometimes a liability to the films in which she stars, here Hathaway offers a sharp, stern, convincing performance, at once attractive and weary, doubting and supportive, intense and self-contained. 

In addition to Spotlight, another film from four years ago that one could relate to Dark Waters is the conspiratorial Concussion, starring Will Smith in perhaps his finest performance. But Dark Waters is much better than that middling movie, mainly—again—because of its maturity and general avoidance of melodrama and Hollywood cliché. Moreover, unlike Concussion or Spotlight, the subject matter in Dark Waters is so pervasive that it literally affects almost every human being on the planet. Dark Waters is a serious film for serious people, one that makes you think and feel afterwards while reminding you that gullibility is the genuine partner of greed.