Take Shelter

Family is the most important part of our lives. But what if you protect your family too much, that your mental statement becomes worse? This is what Take Shelter wants to bring up, how humans are effected by our mental condition. Take Shelter won the 50th Critics Week Grand Prix, at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Does Take Shelter make an impact with this heavy subject, or is it too much to handle?

In Ohio, Curtis LaForche ( Michael Shannon ) tries and live a good life with his wife Samantha ( Jessica Chastain ) and his deaf daughter Hannah ( Tova Stewart ). Everything is going good, untill Curtis begins to have apocalyptic dreams, where people he loves is harmed in his presence. And it´s getting worse, he also have visions of terrible storms, as he begins to build a storm shelter in his backyard. Not knowing what is going on, he visits a counselor at a free clinic, to hopefully get some answers.

This is what film making is all about. To find a simple story and build something unique and powerful with the right tools. Take Shelter is so good, i could not get enough watching Michael Shannon´s life fall apart, he does a fantastic performance. You can tell director Jeff Nichols does not want a typical mainstream production, he wants to hit you straight in the face and tell the truth about life. And that is the biggest strength with Take Shelter, it feels so honest and naked, you just sit there hoping for more. I´m very close of giving this one a full rating, it gets a bit slow in some scenes, still, this is one of the best movies i have seen lately. A must have in your movie collection.

Rating: DDDD