I didn't really expect something "serious" on the Hitler / Big foot thing.
I would have guessed that the main character would go in some sort of weird mental state, imaginating all that, or suffuring from a mental disorder...
But no, it's actually serious and it feels plausible, at least for the Hitler part (it's rewriting history in a way), on Bigfoot, well, there's nothing real or factual to rewrite, so I just go with it, and it's fine.
It's definitely over the top, I mean the guy killed Hitler AND Big Foot !!! but I guess that's the point... Cause these two stories don't really matter that much, it could have been "The man who (insert something incredible here) AND (insert something even more incredible there)". The movie is really about choices, losses and regrets. Even the most formidable man on earth, capable of doing the most amazing things, can end up questionning his choices.
The way the story unravels really took me in. The flashbacks of the heroic actions contrast with the calm, slow and lonely life of the main character... And you start to wonder how such a great man can become an old, lonely, almost forgotten man.
Sam Elliot's character takes no pride in all his (incredibles) achievments, on the contrary, as his brother said, "He doesn't know pride" (or something like that), I felt it more like the choices he made ruined his life and there's more shame in that than pride. Sam Elliot acting is very convincing btw.
Greatnest is awesome sure.. but in the end, you're better of as an happy "average" then a great lonely old man.
This movie is not for everyone, but it got me thinking, I tend to be an over achiever (in a much more modest way of course) and it did resonnate in me. And that's my favorite kind of movie, the ones that stays in my head for some days...
Thanks for reading
But no, it's actually serious and it feels plausible, at least for the Hitler part (it's rewriting history in a way), on Bigfoot, well, there's nothing real or factual to rewrite, so I just go with it, and it's fine.
It's definitely over the top, I mean the guy killed Hitler AND Big Foot !!! but I guess that's the point... Cause these two stories don't really matter that much, it could have been "The man who (insert something incredible here) AND (insert something even more incredible there)". The movie is really about choices, losses and regrets. Even the most formidable man on earth, capable of doing the most amazing things, can end up questionning his choices.
The way the story unravels really took me in. The flashbacks of the heroic actions contrast with the calm, slow and lonely life of the main character... And you start to wonder how such a great man can become an old, lonely, almost forgotten man.
Sam Elliot's character takes no pride in all his (incredibles) achievments, on the contrary, as his brother said, "He doesn't know pride" (or something like that), I felt it more like the choices he made ruined his life and there's more shame in that than pride. Sam Elliot acting is very convincing btw.
Greatnest is awesome sure.. but in the end, you're better of as an happy "average" then a great lonely old man.
This movie is not for everyone, but it got me thinking, I tend to be an over achiever (in a much more modest way of course) and it did resonnate in me. And that's my favorite kind of movie, the ones that stays in my head for some days...
Thanks for reading