Uma História Americana

Ewan não poderia ter escolhido um assunto mais difícil? O final do filme desperta emoções e até comove alguém, mas tudo antes está fora do lugar, vazio e não diz nada. Ewan é apenas um personagem emocionalmente simpático, a sua atuação não é suficiente para um personagem tão complicado. Jennifer muda de humor como se não pertencessem sequer a uma personagem, e a filha perturbada não funciona de todo. Um filme mal dirigido e dramaturgicamente completamente fracassado. (30/11/2016)

I was looking forward to a movie about the destruction of the American Dream, but I can't help it, it just didn't work out, and you're left with a fairly empty narrative where the actors tried, but it still wasn't enough. An excellent trio of actors in the lead roles, yet you still feel like it's very dull. Here, the script and set design failed, being incredibly restrained and not wanting to show anything more. (16/03/2017)

American Pastoral is a somewhat peculiar film that could have been very successful but remained somewhere halfway there. The whole time, I was incredibly annoyed by the behavior of the daughter Merry, played by Dakota Fanning. I guess that's why I couldn't really empathize with the story. My emotions got a bit shaken only at the very end. The clear message of the film for me remains that loving one's child unconditionally, no matter how dreadful their actions, does not pay off. It can take us to the very edge of the abyss from which there is no return. (65%) (04/06/2021)