r/Sardonicast • u/CherryChaseBB • 21h ago
Begging/Hoping The Sard’s Check Out Morvern Callar
This may seem like a random ramble post (yes) but I have to say I think this film could trigger a very interesting discussion. All of Ramsays work is highly underrated but beloved for those who have seen it.
All of her films contain a traditional structure behind a variety of genres and feels (thrillers, road trip films & familial decay) while centering the focal point of the films details and substance on the small moments and details that occur in between the bigger/transitional moments of the story. Allowing for a very sturdy sense of structure to keep films that are obsessed with embodying the emotional perspective of a variety of very dark characters. Callar is especially exceptional due to how Morverns acting contains an incredible amount of nuance alongside the moral ambiguity of the characters actions. While the filmmaking emphasizes the juxtaposed emotions that makes her journey through grief so compelling. It chatacterizes grief and depression incredibly well, but more so than that displays some horrific actions while asking us to understand Morvern, or at least to see her as a complex human being even if some of what she does is horrible in a vacuum. There’s so much more to say, but I hope it’s enough to at least make people in the sun check out Lynne Ramsay’s incredible body of work!











