Move rec: The Secret Life of Words

It's not very often that I'm so blown away by a movie that I have to hop on my LJ and rec it, but I watched The Secret Life of Words last night and loved it more than I've loved any movie in a long time. If you don't mind slow-paced, kinda art-house-ish films that hint at plot points more than explaining them, I highly recommend it. A hearing-impaired factory worker with severe social phobias, who doesn't talk unless she absolutely has to, takes a job as a caretaker for a blinded, badly burned roughneck on an oil drilling rig in the North Sea. He can't be moved because his condition is too unstable, so she comes to live on the drilling rig with a small group of men from different countries, all of them at loose ends because the rig's been shut down due to the fire, each with their own story and secrets.

Trigger warning: you should probably be very careful watching this movie if you would be triggered by (or simply don't want to see) [sexual-content-related spoilers] a character describing brutal rape and torture in detail; the events are not shown, but the physical scars and emotional aftermath are.

There's a trailer at apple.com (it's kinda spoilery; I'd recommend watching the movie unspoiled if you're like me and don't want any hints about how things turn out) and ( another link to a page on the movie that I'm putting under a cut because the subject matter is a plot spoiler -- but it's very interesting if you've seen the movie or don't mind spoilers )

Move rec: The Secret Life of Words

It's not very often that I'm so blown away by a movie that I have to hop on my LJ and rec it, but I watched The Secret Life of Words last night and loved it more than I've loved any movie in a long time. If you don't mind slow-paced, kinda art-house-ish films that hint at plot points more than explaining them, I highly recommend it. A hearing-impaired factory worker with severe social phobias, who doesn't talk unless she absolutely has to, takes a job as a caretaker for a blinded, badly burned roughneck on an oil drilling rig in the North Sea. He can't be moved because his condition is too unstable, so she comes to live on the drilling rig with a small group of men from different countries, all of them at loose ends because the rig's been shut down due to the fire, each with their own story and secrets.

Trigger warning: you should probably be very careful watching this movie if you would be triggered by (or simply don't want to see) [sexual-content-related spoilers] a character describing brutal rape and torture in detail; the events are not shown, but the physical scars and emotional aftermath are.

There's a trailer at apple.com (it's kinda spoilery; I'd recommend watching the movie unspoiled if you're like me and don't want any hints about how things turn out) and ( another link to a page on the movie that I'm putting under a cut because the subject matter is a plot spoiler -- but it's very interesting if you've seen the movie or don't mind spoilers )