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Today's film is one of the most upsetting I have seen in a long time.

I am still quivering.

The thing is that it has no bloodshed. No violence at all.

It simply tells the true-ish story of a greedy scum of a home developer that sells then takes back new homes from gullible people whose desire for a home and a nice way of life overpowers their good sense.

99 Homes (2015)

Is a muckraker of a film that does not let up. At times it felt unbearable to continue to watch the avarice and meanness involved in the Florida house game.

The acting is intense. I am watching this because it has Andrew Garfield as a guy who takes a job with the asshole who took his home. He is the devil's apprentice who sees the evil in what is going on. Legal evil.

This is not a happy film. It is unpleasant and painful to watch.

Goal accomplished, Garfield is a full on naif who falls into the trap of becoming his own oppressor.

That he sees it happening is even more painful as he is helpless to help himself or the others who he is hurting.

I do not know if this film even got distribution. It is so hard to watch I could see people leaving the theaters.

But it is extremely well done. Indictment by a thousand cuts. Little by little we sink lower in the slime.

Laura Dern is in this film, worn and tired of being shoved around. Michael Shannon is becoming the master villain of our time. Handsome but with a hard core burn of nasty, he all but draws hisses from the crowd as he goes about his shitty business.

I could never watch this movie again. It is too immediate and painful.

If there was a need for a film to show the housing crisis and the economic displacement of a wide swath of people this is it.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films