Each one serves to enhance the color of world the Blackledges exist within, pointing out the violence of a land anyone else might expect to be safe traveling in. The physical restrictions remove the speed of information, requiring the characters stop, question, and explore in a variety of places. To those, I implore you to consider the physical restrictions (the film is set in the 1960s) and the psychological restrictions (the loss of a child). For some, this may appear as tedium or as though the film wanders from Point A to Point B. Wisely, Bezucha allows the story to take its time to get to where it needs to be, enabling the audience to identify and feel the ramifications. Actions have consequences and those consequences have weight. “Enjoy” being in quotes as Let Him Go isn’t a confection in the vein of Tombstone (1993) or Maverick (1994). So, truly, leave your expectations at the door with Let Him Go and you’ll “enjoy” this film all the more. Instead of experiencing the thing, we find ourselves waiting for a thing and that can detract from the act of watching. This is, of course, the folly of anyone who comes to, well, anything with preconceived notions. Given the description above, and with the cast involved, a certain amount of heroics and happy endings are anticipated. L-R: Kayli Carter as Lorna Blackledge and Diane Lane as Margaret Blackledge in LET HIM GO.Ĭoming into Let Him Go, I expected it to be a fairly straight, though prolonged, story of familial reconciliation after tragedy. Above all, it’s a story about the various stages of grief and the difficulty of letting go. In its totality, Let Him Go is many things: a crime thriller, a gothic western, a love story, and a family drama. It certainly helps that the cast is top notch, enabling the audience to look beyond who they are as people and envision them as Bezucha intends. There is pain, there is trial, there is loss, but there is also a bittersweet hope and nobility present that makes all it imbued with purpose. A slow tale exploring love and loss, this adaptation from author Larry Watson’s same-titled book is aptly described by Bezucha as a Greek tragedy in the “Making Of” featurette included in the home release. This being the case, quite a few might fit into the “wished I’d seen it the first go-round” category and writer/director Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go perfectly fits right into that slot. You can certainly try, but there’re bound to be a few that you miss either by choice or circumstance. Home › Recommendation › Home Release › Costner and Lane reunite in the crime drama “Let Him Go,” now available on home video/streaming.Ĭostner and Lane reunite in the crime drama “Let Him Go,” now available on home video/streaming.Įven in the Before Times, it was nearly impossible to see every film that was released in a given year.
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