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Pretty Good

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) and her lawyer husband Gerardo (Stuart Wilson) live in a remote home in a South American country still dealing with its recent dictatorship. Paulina is on edge haunted by the torture she suffered. One stormy night, Gerardo gets a ride home with neighbor Dr. Roberto Miranda (Ben Kingsley). Paulina recognizes his voice as that of her unseen tormentor and she takes him prisoner. Gerardo tries desperately to talk her out of the situation and agrees to be the man's defense lawyer as she tries him in her trial.It's a three-person play and everybody delivers. Weaver is amazing and Wilson is great. There are simply no words to describe Kingsley. Director Roman Polanski keeps the static location compelling and really relies on the actors to develop the climbing tension.

I went into this movie, not knowing anything it. And I'm glad I didn't, as curiosity had me right from the beginning. This is one of those claustrophobic thrillers set on an idyllic, isolated beach side location, miles from any town whatever. It's the perfect setting for this searing Q an A type thriller where our victim (Weaver) who was kept as a war prisoner by torturer, Doctor Meecher (a wonderful Ben Kingsley, as expected) turns the tables on her oppressor. As never seeing this guy, she only remembers him by voice, so it only bears that reliance, where if she's wrong she's in deep s..t. Her husband, an activist for the cause, who was driven home by this guy, on the account of a flat, is forced to go along with her in this hostage scenario. This is a tight thriller, because it's tight, and has a really real situation, where you totally understands the character's actions and wants. This movie never, ever, loses it's punch, and is just riveting viewing. The end and start have the same scene of our mains, observing a concert, where I guess all is forgiven, where it's really hard to forgive in this scenario, where Kingsley finally spills his guts, in the climactic finale, where finally the truth is told. Some things can't be forgiven and you gotta praise Kingsley's character for coming forward. Stuart Wilson, who we don't hear of nowadays, was an actor who gained my interest, where he vanished pretty quickly after this, doing the fizzer, Exit To Eden, prefore, was so good here too. A very strong performance. I really him in this. He's an American version of British actor, Bryan Marshall. This is a faultless and tightly constructed thriller and does warrant your viewing, if you want to stay in one night, and watch something really involving, and that DATM is.

Story: Emotionally disturbed wife of a human rights activist and minister of justice to be wakes up in night and hears her husband speaking to an unknown man. In his voice she recognizes a doctor who tortured and raped during the reign of military junta. She attacks him in night, ties him up and under a gunpoint she decides to proceed with a trial. Her husband must reluctantly go what she wants. And so trial which will affect all three protagonists for ever begins.Acting: Breathtaking, acting in this film is incredibly intense. All three actors are great and are believable in their roles.Direction and camera: Again as with acting the films is very intense in the feeling, it is slow but creepy and keeps viewer in doubts right to the end.Music: There is not much music in this film, I remember only the "Death and the maiden" which is of course beautiful. Conclusion: Great film with great acting and atmosphere.

Roman Polanski's film is raw and exciting as you are literally on the edge of you seat wondering just what is going to happen next.It is based upon a play, so there are only three characters, but that is all it needs.Sigourney Weaver is a torture survivor from a Latin-American country. Pick one, we have been complicit in torture in many of them. She is married to Stuart Wilson, who has just been picked to head up a new commission to bring torturers to justice, but only those who have killed. There will be nothing for survivors like Weaver.Enter the great Ben Kingsley, who just happens to pick up her husband after a flat tire. She recognizes the voice - or she says she does. The rest of the story is how she is convinced he is her torturer and captures him to force a confession.This is where it gets raw and powerful as she recounts what was done to her while trying to get a confession. Her husband is caught in that trap where you support your wife, but you don't quite believe her to be right.It was compelling, and all three actors made it a film that should have gotten wider recognition.