“Joseph Chambers Integrity”: Film Review | Tribute 2022

Keep studying the men who started them. Murder of two girlfriendsWriter-director Robert Machoyan and lead actor Klein Crawford will return to acting. Joseph Chambers Integrity, a moral tale in which the danger to the protagonist’s family this time is a direct consequence of his own actions. The new film doesn’t quite achieve the narrative complexity or power of its predecessor; He is also not ashamed of a sense of self worth at times acting out. But the artistic rigor of this adventure is astounding, as is Danish sound designer Peter Albrechten’s invaluable contribution to sculpting a haunting atmosphere.

No less important is the work of cinematographer Oscar Ignacio Jiménez, who caused such a scandalous situation in the Utah winter. Murder of two girlfriends And it does so again here in Forest Alabama, which is captured in powerful images that expressively place Crawford’s main character alone in the menacing wilderness.

Crawford hails from this part of the country, and far more than his first collaboration with the director, it feels more transparent as an actor’s showcase than a multidimensional drama. In addition to producing with his wife, Crawford takes costume and set credits and hands them over to his own children, signaling a personal desire to explore the dark corners of the male psyche.

Just like the previous film, this film also features a harrowing script that depicts the events of one day. Joseph wakes up long before dawn and prepares to hunt deer. His wife Tess (Jordanana Brewster) expresses concern that he is too inexperienced to hunt alone and asks him to wait until his friend Dug (Carl Kennedy) is released with him. But Joseph is stubbornly proud.

He and Tess have just moved to their hometown of Pell in the foothills of the Appalachians to raise their two children in a safe place away from the city’s influence. He sells insurance, but thinks to himself that he should be able to support his family if the world falls apart; whether this means economic or climate collapse or some other form of social chaos is unclear. Even the mustache left behind after Joseph shaves his beard at the beginning of the film means he’s trying to create a more masculine personality in a new environment.

Doug also stops Joseph from leaving, but still lends him his truck and rifle. Joseph goes to a private estate that has a hunting license and travels through the woods, finding several places to sit and wait, but shows what little patience and composure a deer hunter needs. Even his clumsiness with carrying a rifle makes him a poorly trained rookie.

Albrechtsen spreads inconsistent atmospheric gasps and chills and swirls with the elemental noise of twigs, birds, animals, trees breaking twigs and twigs, accompanied by an orchestral score by William Ryan Fritsch. This slanted soundscape, with its haunting installation notes and countless hints of hunting accidents, is a sign of disaster in American cinema and literature.

Joseph’s boredom pauses during which he sings about the King of the Mountains, imagines a baseball game in which he is a star, and slides down the rocks of the river. But it becomes inevitable when he finally notices a deer, chases after it, then turns around and blindly throws it when the noise behind him startles him.

This unplanned action, just a moment in Joseph’s life, changes everything instantly, and his fantasy of himself as the surviving savior is shattered. Machoyan long interrupts the hero’s stunned reaction — agitation, panic, nausea, tears, anger — blurring the line between the character’s dilapidated state and Crawford, who returns his working muscles to the extreme man’s prolonged improvisation. But the movie gets more interesting when Joseph goes into brutal injury management mode.

This implies that he would alternate between justifying his actions by complaining and reminding himself that it was an accident before deciding to cover up the evidence. But he is shocked by other facts that exacerbate his dilemma and also evaluates him as a fake who is not there, with hunting clothes bought from the catalog. In the long middle section, presented primarily as a solo exhibition, Joseph confronts his inadequacies as a man.

The film’s dramatic impact will depend on how much you invest in Joseph’s moral crisis, which subtly echoes the more existential crisis of a man who knows nothing but selling insurance, possibly worthless assets in a world on the brink of disaster. This is a script that seems to be more suited to a short story format than a narrative feature, and I found it a little thinner than the ever-evolving stakes and sustained emotional impact. Murder of two girlfriends.

But Crawford’s commitment is impressive. Joseph returns home, not saying anything to his wife and children, although he is clearly surprised. Machoyan then heads back into the woods to reveal the events of the previous day, zooming in to show Joseph’s relationship with the local police chief, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in a final scene that ends in sudden ambiguity.

Joseph Chambers Integrity A little disappointed after the last collaboration between the director and the lead actor. But it’s still raw and distinctive, almost entirely on Crawford’s shoulders. However, more attention is paid to sound and its descriptive purposes: the sowing of fear, the study of the subconscious, and the study of the dark and frightened depths of the mind.