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Doubt
Doubt makes my life easy. If you like serious talkies and fine acting, you'll love it, no question.
Doubt is not a movie for the masses. You need to immerse yourself in it, and not get bored by long periods of dialogue. If that sounds like you, go and see it before the Oscars so you can decide who to cheer for (all four are up for gongs). Will you find a movie this year with a better spread of supreme acting? I Doubt it. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - definitely not for the jocks. To enjoy this film: sit back and watch the best in the business at work.
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Doubt has a simple premise that it skirts around without ever wanting to directly talk about it, like seeing a rectangle
on the wall where a picture used to hang. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the jovial priest suspected of "improper behaviour"
with one of the boys in the school - suspected, that is, by the two nuns Amy Adams (flimsy but golden-hearted) and
Meryl Streep (stick up her arse). Streep's character is one of those achingly awful harpies who start with a conclusion
and then work backwards, clinging to the original idea with all the tenacity of a terrier in a tub of toffee, rejecting
any possibility that she could - perish the thought - entertain the slightest Doubt.
That's as far as I can go with the plot, but to be honest the story is just a clothes horse on which to hang four quite
superb performances. I sometimes get the feeling that anyone who criticises Meryl Streep is instantly whisked away by a
horde of winged avenging angels (she does look spookily like Death in her nun's habit), but fortunately I need take no
such risk as she's captivating in the lead role, as are Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The fourth garment on the
clothes horse is Viola Davis - her role only lasts a couple of scenes but it's memorable enough to net her a Best
Supporting Actor nomination in the upcoming Oscars. There isn't a scene in the whole movie
that isn't beautifully delivered, and the 104 minutes fly by in a way that most action movies would kill for, let alone
a heavy tome such as this.
