Unable to call in the authorities since Jed hasn’t done anything illegal, Joe tries different tactics to rid himself of this pest, a gangly, forlorn figure with long stringy hair and poor hygiene. It’s a love and complicity shot through with God’s blessing, and it isn’t long before he begins calling Joe at home asking him to meet, standing outside his flat and approaching him in public, all with the aim of coaxing Joe to acknowledge the obvious and “give into it.”Ĭalmly rational on one hand but self-involved, quick tempered and, as Claire points out, “overwrought” on the other, Joe tends to be short and dismissive with Jed, an obvious misfit and loner who simply won’t be denied no matter how brusquely he’s treated. When they come upon Logan’s broken body on the plain, one of the group, Jed (Rhys Ifans), who asks a reluctant Joe to kneel down and pray, feels something pass between them.
Then there is Joe’s need to believe that he wasn’t the first to abandon ship.īut one man present for the calamity knows exactly how he feels.
But there is the conflicting suspicion that, if all the other men had held on rather than let go, everything would have been fine. Since the balloon later floated down with the young passenger unscathed, there’s the sense that the dead would-be rescuer, a family man named Logan, perished for nothing. In the chaotic action that quickly follows, several men in the area, including Joe, run up and grab the basket and dangling ropes to try to hold it down.īut when a sudden gust of wind lofts the balloon and the screaming boy suddenly upward, the men more or less simultaneously let go - except for one, who some moments later loses his grip and hurtles fatally to the ground as the others watch aghast.Īs upsetting as the incident is, it’s difficult for Joe to know how to react or what to feel. There is a young boy on board and a man on the ground desperately trying to rein it in. On a day when Joe Rose (Craig), a vigorous-minded science professor, has brought his longtime girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton) to the countryside for a picnic, the sight of a runaway hot-air balloon disrupts the idyllic English summer atmosphere. Yarn is triggered by a bizarre accident that dramatically changes the lives of everyone in its proximity. In its unusual synthesis of somewhat abstracted compositions and latent powder-keg emotionalism, “Enduring Love” sometimes reminds in a good way of such ’60s British art films as the Losey-Pinter “Accident.” Stylistically, the film is very alive, with Michell hanging back at times, only to repeatedly snap the viewer to attention with dynamic handling of scenes that cut to the core of how the protagonist’s life is being attacked and corrupted by his unshakable nemesis.
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