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As a sexual abuse survivor, there is, quite simply, no film that has impacted me with the intensity, emotion and wholeness as Tim Roth’s «The War Zone,» a 1999 film that centers around an alienated teenager whose family moves out of London into the country. The teenager, masterfully portrayed by Freddie Cunliffe, must come to grips with a dark family secret between his father and sister. Watching Cunliffe attempt to, at first remain silent regarding this secret THEN simply attempt to control his emotions is one of the most emotionally harrowing experiences I’ve had while watching a film. While watching this film, I found MYSELF wanting to explode and scream and condemn those in my past. Under no circumstances is this a film that a sexual abuse survivor should watch alone. Period.

Of course, «The War Zone» of the title is the home, or even more specifically the family. This film is hauntingly realistic in its creation of a family built upon lies and betrayal and mistrust. Wisely, Roth chose not to censor the truth and instead presents the truth with a straightforward approach that is emotionally and physically exhausting.

The film’s father is portrayed by the incredible Ray Winstone, whose performance here is one of frightening simplicity. Winstone’s father is not a monster, but instead simply a father living in his own war zone who has betrayed all around him. It is a precise, understated performance that lays to rest all the myths and stereotypes about those who abuse sexually.

As Mum, Tilda Swinton gives one of her many wondrous performances in a performance that is horridly sad and dark. Likewise, Lara Belmont shines as a young teen girl who is resigned to her truth and lives life more as the shadow of her true self. In a supporting role, Colin Farrell continues his admirable dedication to independent film and brings greath depth to what could have been an insignificant role.

Roth directs much in the same way I direct theatre. It’s a rather «no holds barred» approach that is both exhausting and exhilarating. The cinematography for «The War Zone» is stellar with a sort of gray tone seeming to appear over much of the film giving this overwhelming sense of darkness even in moments of great light. It is as if Roth is reminding us that the truth of this family cannot be glossed over. In fact, the cinematography of this film reminds me of what I found missing from «Blue Car,» another film centering on sexual abuse that I greatly admire. «Blue Car» constantly felt like it was trying to temper the intensity of the subject by creating a lighter, brighter atmosphere. In other words, the production design never felt like it truly fit the subject. It’s not that I want an absence of hope. on the contrary, though, the hope must come from within the characters and not in the environment. For sexual abuse survivors, this is a key truth. even if they cannot change the truth of their lives they can change what is within them. Tim Roth beautifully portrays this by creating an environment of shaded colors and great intensity while allowing the characters to live out their own journey. It is a magnificent choice even as the young teenage male in question makes very challenging choices.

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It must have been something like this in medieval times, families living in isolation, cut off from neighbors, forced indoors by the weather, their animal and sexual functions not always shielded from view. Tim Roth’s «The War Zone,» brilliant and heartbreaking, takes place in the present but is timeless; most particularly it is cut off from the fix-it culture of psychobabble, which defines all the politically correct ways to consider incest. The movie is not about incest as an issue, but about incest as a blow to the heart and the soul—a real event, here, now, in a family that seems close and happy. Not a topic on a talk show.

The movie takes place in winter in Devon, which is wet and gray, the sky squeezing joy out of the day. The family has moved from London «to make a fresh start,» the mother says. They live in a comfortable cottage, warm and sheltered, life revolving around the big kitchen table. Mum (Tilda Swinton) is very pregnant. Dad (Ray Winstone) is bluff and cheery, extroverted, a good guy. Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) is a 15-year-old, silent and sad because he misses his friends in London. Jessie (Lara Belmont) is 18 years old, ripe with beauty. This looks like a cheerful story.

Roth tells it obliquely, sensitive to the ways families keep secrets even from themselves. Early in the film the mother’s time comes and the whole family rushes to the hospital; there’s a car crash, but a happy ending, as they gather in the maternity ward with the newcomer, all of them cut and bruised, but survivors. Back at home, there is a comfort with the physical side of life. Mum nurses her child, in kitchen scenes like renaissance paintings. Tom is comfortable with his sister’s casual nudity while they have a heart-to-heart talk. Mum helps wash her men at the kitchen sink, Jessie dries her brother’s hair in the laundry room, the family seems comfortable with one another.

Then Tom glimpses a disturbing part of a moment between his father and his sister. He challenges Jessie. She says nothing happened. Something did happen, and more will happen, including a scene of graphic hurtfulness. But this isn’t a case of Tom discovering incest in his family and blowing the whistle. It’s much more complicated. How does he feel about his sister, and about her relationship with her new boyfriend Nick? What about his father’s eerie split personality, able to deny his behavior and see Tom’s interference as an assault on their happy family? What about the mother’s willingness not to know? What about his sister’s denial? Does it spring from shame, fear or a desire to shield Tom and her mother from the knowledge?

And what about a curious episode when Jessie and Tom visit London, and Jessie almost seems to have set up Tom to sleep with one of her friends—as what? Consolation? A bribe? Revenge? The movie’s refusal to declare exactly what the London episode means is admirable, because this is not a zero-sum accounting of good and evil, but a messy, elusive, painfully complex tragedy in which no one is driven by just one motive.

When Tom is accused of destroying the family and having a filthy mind, there is a sense in which he accepts this analysis. One critic of the film wrote that a «teenage boy (from the big city, no less) would surely be more savvy—no matter how distraught—about the workings and potential resolutions of such a situation.» Only in textbooks. When you’re 15, what you learn in social studies and from talk shows is a lot different from how you confront your own family.

Incest is not unfamiliar as a subject for movies, but most incest stories are about characters simplified into monsters and victims. We know intellectually that most child abusers were abused children, but few films pause to reflect how that lifelong hurt reflects itself in real situations. The father here is both better and worse because of his own probably traumatic childhood. He must long ago have often promised himself that he would be different than his own father, that he would be a good dad—loving, kind, warm, cheerful—and so he is, all except for when he is not. When he’s accused of evil, he explodes in anger—the anger of the father he is now and also the anger of the child he once was. For a moment his son is, in a sense, the abuser, making Dad feel guilty and shameful just as his own father must have, and tearing down all his efforts to be better, to be different.

Unsurprisingly, «The War Zone» affects viewers much more powerfully than a simple morality tale might. It is not simply about the evil of incest, but about its dynamic, about the way it does play upon guilt and shame, and address old and secret wounds. The critic James Berardinelli says that when he saw the movie at the Toronto Film Festival, a viewer ran from the theater saying he couldn’t take it anymore and went looking to pull a fire alarm. Roth was standing near the exit and intercepted him, becoming confessor for an emotional outpouring that the movie had inspired.

Roth is one of the best actors now working, and with this movie he reveals himself as a director of surprising gifts. I cannot imagine «The War Zone» being better directed by anyone else, even though Ingmar Bergman and Ken Loach come to mind. Roth and his actors, and Stuart’s screenplay, understand these people and their situation down to the final nuance, and are willing to let silence, timing and visuals reveal what dialogue would cheapen. Not many movies bring you to a dead halt of sorrow and empathy. This one does.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert byl filmovým kritikem Chicago Sun-Times od roku 1967 až do své smrti v roce 2013. V roce 1975 získal Pulitzerovu cenu za vynikající kritiku.

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