In one of his greatest short stories, Soldier's Home, Ernest Hemingway writes of Corporal Krebs, a Us marine returning from France to Kansas in 1919 unable to communicate his experiences of the war: "Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice, he had a reaction against the war and against talking about it." Returning to her own midwestern town after a year in Afghanistan, Kelli (Linda Cardellini) also has little to say to her blue-collar plumber husband Mike (Michael Shannon) and their children, but we never really discover her problem. She refers to "deployment" and "the war" in an abstract way, and can't bring herself to have sex with the troubled Mike, who has drifted into an affair. By the time she quits her stultifying job assembling parts for ventilator units in this rust-belt Ohio township, she's started to drink.
- 4/7/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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