With 'The Inspection,' Jeremy Pope's performance brings life to the feature debut of Elegance Bratton. Our review:
All art is personal. Even when not autobiographical in nature, we leave part of ourselves in what we create. Whether it be a painting, a piece of music, or a feature-length film, the act of creation through any medium will always be tied to the creator themselves. It is in telling a personal truth that a work of art can be molded into something that comes alive unlike anything else.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY This all begins in 2005 when we see the 25-year-old Ellis already on the cusp of such oblivion. After being kicked out of his home at 16 when he came out, he has spent the subsequent years struggling largely on his own and is now living in a shelter in New Jersey. After watching news coverage about the war that America had recently begun with the invasion of Iraq, he decides he will enlist to become a marine.
Where things become somewhat uncertain is when we pull back from that into something more conventional. Specifically, the scenes where we are no longer with Ellis as our grounding point end up feeling hollow. One comes when Laws is challenged by his fellow instructor Rosales when they are out of sight of their trainees.
What ensures we get back on track is how willing Bratton is to grapple with the more thorny aspects of his time in the service. Without tipping off anything about the ending, the purpose he found in enlisting is always tempered with a more tragic undercurrent. This is both in how he had to repress so much of himself and, even before he got there, why it was this path that he felt he had to go down.
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