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By
TERESSA ELLIOTT
Roy (Ryan Gosling) must deal with the death of his father (was he a suicide? The film is opaque on this and other
issues) and also being cut from the football team. He meets Gideon (David Morse) who gives him another chance to play
football and sports become a metaphor for growing as a person--as it has in many films before this one.
There are a few subplots that go nowhere and it's hard to care for the characters because we never really know them.
They tend to speak in what I think of as "indiespeak" -- cryptic pronouncements that don't further character development
but make the filmmakers look like they're making a cool, independent film.
A standard coming-of-age story, "The Slaughter Rule" doesn't break new ground. Although Morse and Gosling do creditable
jobs, you can skip this game. |
