BLUE RUIN - Dwight Evans (Macon Blaire) is a downtrodden dude ill suited to the path he's chosen - the one leading to revenge against the man who killed his parents. He murders the culprit fresh out of jail, then enters a dark realm where little is as straightforward as he imagined. This is excellent, an understated number where the mechanics of the righteous retribution sub-genre get a sour going-over, one where no-one remains unscathed (and, to quote that lobotomised scientist guy in the radioactive alien car from 'Repo Man' for no particular reason - "everybody dies"). 'Mechanics' is possibly the key word for me here - event follows event as domino topples domino, all twists and turns working their way through with such strict linearity that you'll be wearing Dwight's half bemused, half terrified expression when you clock exactly how held by it all you are. In fact, although there's no 'meta' at work here, all the characters seem always to have their ears half cocked to the filmic ground, as if deep within the rumblings of their subconscious they can detect the whirring of a transcendent, noirish (plot) device of inevitability which will bring them all together, in perfectly inescapable fashion, to no good end. Anyway, it's wicked, you should see it, so get it. Peace.
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