That was an excellent one.

A Major Disappointment

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Its cold atmosphere, the brutal last part. the freshness of performances. a case. discovered as a slowly show ended with a terrible gesture who, at first sigh, has not explanations or motifs but, after a time, small details recreates the meaning of the attitude of young Tony. behind the story, the performances are the leading reason for see Savage Grace. and, sure, the precise portrait of a family story. eccentric, slice of magazine gossip but useful for the fascination dose. a film about solitude. and love. and games. and the impecable art of Julianne Moore and Eddy Redmayne.

This is the approximately true life story of Bakelite heir Antony Baekeland starting at birth. His parents are swingers of a sort. His mother is not so much motivated by sex as by manipulating people. She enjoys humiliating her husband. Juliane Moore portrays the mother not so much as an cruel villain, but as someone very self-centred, selfish, with a low tolerance for boredom. She like to make a scene just for the entertainment value of it as for the fun of shocking the onlookers.Barney Clark plays Anthony at 12. He a weird kid, simultaneously infantile and precocious. His parents keep him isolated from other children, possibly because they fear homosexual sex play.Eddie Redmayne plays Anthony at 19. He looks completely different from Barney Clark. It was not immediately clear this new character was Anthony. He reminded me of Bill Gates with his way of speaking, deadpan and freckles. Redmayne has startling sharply angled features and very thick lips. At first I found him unsympathetic, but then warmed to him as his parents screwed him over.Dad steals his girl friend. Mom shares his boyfriend. I would think Anthony, who was an heir, would have bolted, but he did not. There is a scene when Mom seduces Antony by grinding her pelvis against his crotch until she comes then giving him a hand job. It was not so much seduction, as she decided, and he did as he was told. This is pretty raw.The movie meanders along without apparent direction other than parents behaving worse and worse, keeping Anthony socially isolated, and Anthony getting weirder and weirder. But it is a real life and real lives don't have scriptwriters.Much of the movie is not clear unless you read the closing credits which are in quite small type which tell the events that happened after the police arrived at the end.Hint: pay specially close to attention to anything to do with a dog collar or a pet dog that "died".

SAVAGE GRACE – CATCH IT ( B- ) The movie is based upon famous socialite Barbara Baekeland who was stabbed to death by her gay son Tony Baekeland. The premises of the movie is really promising & to be honest while watching the movie I didn't knew that it was actually based upon true story it was on the end when they started to tell what happened to Tony after killing her mother, then I came to know its based upon true story. The story is really complex, intriguing, interesting and extremely shocking, it will blow your mind like mine if you don't know what you are getting into. The two most shocking scenes for me were when the mother (Julianne Moore) and son (Eddie Remayne) are sleeping with the same guy (Huge Dency) and at one time all three of them sleep together and make out. That was like Dreadful to watch. The second sequence is a sex scene between Mother (Julianne Moore) & Son (Eddie Redmayne) (it was shocking and will leave you stunned and you will think, why the hell i didn't know what it's about). Well as the story was very complex, director got hand on good actors but sadly he couldn't convey the story convincingly though the movie's look is really artistic but its the phase and dialogues makes movie really effective and ground breaking. Julianne Moore as the rich spoiled socialite is fabulous; I think she did her best though she didn't get Award wining powerful moments in this twisted movie. Eddie Redmayne is really good, he tried his best to grape the complexities of the character at best. Huge Dency, well after this I realize that I don't like him as an Actor at all! He is just annoying to even watch now (I don't know why). I think the movie could have been better if we would have more into minds of Julianne and Edie's characters because on the surface things weren't as disturbing as what happened in the end. Maybe Julianne didn't wanted his son to be gay and tried masturbating or whatever with him but they should have shown in the beginning that Julianne didn't approved of her son being gay. Anyways the complexities of the characters were a lot more then for even the director to tell in the right way. It's always very difficult to tell a true story on cellulite. Watch it! If you have guts and brains to get trough such a shocking subject matter.

uh. codependency? is that what we call incest these days? the mother crossed the line and did something very damaging to the parent child relationship. what she did gave her son issues that he could not possibly deal with. i do not condone a taboo like incest but i thought this movie was riveting and often brilliant.for those uptight viewers who would never get it in a million years, this movie does not approve or condone incest. in fact almost the opposite. i mean look what happened.neither was the film mindlessly judgmental. i might be an uptight Christian prude, but i'm still grown up enough to recognize a film with depth and insight. i've seen Bertolucci's 'Luna' and many foreign films like the works of Pasolini, so in a way this was nothing new. i admit i was still shocked and freaked out beyond words (i had no idea what the movie was about), but i composed myself, regained my senses and realized this was a film of compassionate insights into a situation that is awfully hard to understand or relate to. i mean i loved my mother dearly but...i don't know, that was a little too loving in my opinion.i don't know what actually happened. i googled this whole thing and some say it stretches the truth some say it was entirely accurate from the son's testimony. whatever, it was a excellent film with incredible performances by the entire cast and a compelling (if not disturbing)screenplay.some people will turn this off and be afraid to watch. not me. through-out my life i have seen so many people behaving badly and so much decadence and corruption that i would'nt be surprised by anything anybody does no matter what their beliefs are. most people lie and well, i don't like what i see my fellow(an overstatement)doing so why would i hold anything against a movie like this. especially when other Christians and the church are so immersed in corruption and lies. remember Haggard and how he told us he was pure and clean, only to find he is seeing a male prostitute and doing meth.sometimes it seems like art and the movies are the last havens for truth and insight. i think i'll go watch some Sister Wendy. she understands art better than anyone and probably would size this one up instantly. whoever reads this, God bless, good luck with the world you'll need it. hang in there and always keep trying the best you can. there are still some of us left that "know".