THE STORY:
Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood play Jim Stone and David Waters, two utterly dissatisfied cops who track down the location of a vault they intend to break into. With a female hostage (Sky Ferreira) in tow, they get to work whilst cracks continue to grow in their uneasy partnership.
A lethal combination and a superb dynamic; Cage’s bad jokes coupled with Wood’s disapproving looks make for some great moments of comedy gold. You almost miss that rickety rapport as things start to get a little more serious towards the third act of the movie. Still, all that chemistry works in a cringe worthy contrast to their onscreen characters, as never has it been more obvious that two people should not be working together, and on a heist of all things! Those who are familiar with Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno (2013) will appreciate that Sky Ferreira’s mostly mute portrayal of the female hostage is a welcome departure from the seemingly never-ending bone-dry sarcasm of her cannibal counterpart.
Sean Porter’s cinematography does a beautiful job of creating three different perspectives of the small world that suffocates these two underappreciated souls; the lonely wide shots – them against the world; the close-ups & two-shots – the world they have, the world want to escape; and the pensive scenic shots – dreaming of the day their world gets bigger. Wood’s world gets a little bigger when he feels sympathy for Sky’s female hostage, however misguided…
LAST WORDS:
It seems to me that The Trust could be another movie in a gradually growing line of crime films where I get the feeling the makers are trying their damnedest to emulate the pitch-black shenanigans of the Coen brothers’ Fargo (1996), and not quite getting there. That said, although the ending was far too abrupt, I felt the movie worked well as a whole and could stand up as its own confident piece. Most of the thanks go to the two leads; an odd pairing that, as it turns out, should’ve happened sooner. The soundtrack’s not half bad either.
Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood play Jim Stone and David Waters, two utterly dissatisfied cops who track down the location of a vault they intend to break into. With a female hostage (Sky Ferreira) in tow, they get to work whilst cracks continue to grow in their uneasy partnership.
A lethal combination and a superb dynamic; Cage’s bad jokes coupled with Wood’s disapproving looks make for some great moments of comedy gold. You almost miss that rickety rapport as things start to get a little more serious towards the third act of the movie. Still, all that chemistry works in a cringe worthy contrast to their onscreen characters, as never has it been more obvious that two people should not be working together, and on a heist of all things! Those who are familiar with Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno (2013) will appreciate that Sky Ferreira’s mostly mute portrayal of the female hostage is a welcome departure from the seemingly never-ending bone-dry sarcasm of her cannibal counterpart.
Sean Porter’s cinematography does a beautiful job of creating three different perspectives of the small world that suffocates these two underappreciated souls; the lonely wide shots – them against the world; the close-ups & two-shots – the world they have, the world want to escape; and the pensive scenic shots – dreaming of the day their world gets bigger. Wood’s world gets a little bigger when he feels sympathy for Sky’s female hostage, however misguided…
LAST WORDS:
It seems to me that The Trust could be another movie in a gradually growing line of crime films where I get the feeling the makers are trying their damnedest to emulate the pitch-black shenanigans of the Coen brothers’ Fargo (1996), and not quite getting there. That said, although the ending was far too abrupt, I felt the movie worked well as a whole and could stand up as its own confident piece. Most of the thanks go to the two leads; an odd pairing that, as it turns out, should’ve happened sooner. The soundtrack’s not half bad either.
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