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Details etch a portrait of family grief over suicide,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Imaginary Heroes: Drama. Starring Emile Hirsch, Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels. Directed by Dan Harris. (R. 112 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Imaginary Heroes" includes a strong narrative spine, with intriguing and big things happening throughout -- surprise virtue inside a family drama. But this virtue is obscured somewhat by the movie's insufficient narrative drive. As it stands, it is possible at different points to go into a waking trance while watching it, the way in which one does on long driving trips, only to snap back minutes later to locate that nothing has happened. Two teenagers is going to be talking about life. Minutes later, they will be talking about life. If there will be something less interesting than a set of teenagers smoking pot and ruminating about existence, it's difficult to assume what that could be.
What saves "Imaginary Heroes" is its essential truthfulness about families, which it reveals, not only in the broad movements of its story however in the small details. For instance, a parent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], played by Jeff Daniels, grieving and guilt-ridden over his son's suicide, takes to passing each evening in his car, hearing radio stations. That's specific and odd enough to achieve the ring of truth. There's even a touch of poetry in the picture of a guy who can't stand to be in their own house, walling himself removed from every contact and every physical reminder of his misery.
The performances are also of top quality, beginning with Emile Hirsch, who plays Tim, younger brother of a gifted swimming star. One fine day, young Tim, stunned, walks into the kitchen tracking something on his shoes. His mother begins to complain,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], then realizes that her son is in shock and that the substance on his shoes is blood. This is an economical way of communicating the catalytic event of "Imaginary Heroes": The older brother -- his father's pride and joy -- has blown his brains out.
For that father, who believed his son was destined to have an Olympic gold medal, the son's suicide may be the death of each and every cherished vision for the future. It is also a rebuke and a supply of guilt, since his late son hated swimming and made it happen simply to please him. For the mother -- played by Sigourney Weaver -- the son's death is not the only source of grief. Additionally, there are the loss of her marriage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which was probably suffering to start with, but which soon becomes unbearable, when her husband retreats into an angry bitterness and starts acting bizarre, insisting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for example, that a plate (with food) be put out for the dead son at every meal.
Mainly, the image follows Tim, who experiences life with the painful understanding of being the lesser son, whose presence isn't any consolation for the grieving father, and whose continued existence, actually, might even be an annoyance. Tim retreats into his music -- he is able to take part in the piano -- and into his relationships with friends. First and foremost, he benefits from a healthy relationship together with his mother, who, though she's messed up somewhat herself, understands him and offers the type of unconditional love that his father is incapable of. If the brother was dad's favorite, Tim is mom's favorite, and the difference between mom and dad on that score might,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in fact, be the determining factor between one son's life and also the other's death. That mother-son bond, seemingly casual and glancing but really nourishing and deep, is convincingly rendered by Hirsch and Weaver.
"Imaginary Heroes" happens during the period of a year, checking along with Tim, his college-age sister (Michelle Williams) and the parents, because they maneuver,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], together and separately, within black cloud of grief that informs every contact. Sometimes the film's tone wobbles into farce, that is inappropriate, and often the storyline treads water,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as though mimicking,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in tone, every somber family film since "Ordinary People." But,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ultimately, it gets to an authentic and surprisingly powerful place.
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