Nebraska Review

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Shine Mathew
  • 4.5/5
Bleak, brooding and intense - this is black comedy at its finest.

Old age has never looked this bleak and yet so humorous in a long long time. Nebraska is a black and white indie movie about an old man who mistakenly assumes that he has won a lottery and is adamant on claiming his prize. The man's sons try telling him the truth but he doesn't listen, and so he sets out on his journey to claim the prize with his son.

Nebraska is a mixture of a road movie and a deeply contemplative human drama. Bruce Dern delivers a stunning performance as the central character Woody Grant who is hard of hearing and is slow to understand things in his senile years. On his way to claiming the prize he stops by his old town and meets his old friends and families.

The movie is a slow paced drama about old age, yet it maintains a consistent tone of black humour and wit even in the most serious situations. The soundtrack consisting of calming guitar tunes is a great addition to the movie, it puts the viewers in a calm reflective movie June Squibb takes the cake with her bold, quick-talking snappy lady character who doesn't care about what others say about her. The ending is one of the sweetest things that I've seen recently. This is a movie that stays with you long after its over.

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