A boy gives a surgeon a gruesome choice.
We see a child collapsing, failing to walk, and collapsing again.
A girl crawls down a flight of stairs.
Barry Keoghan plays Martin in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
A boy pulls his lower half along a hardwood living room floor.
A surgeon acknowledges he was unable to save a psychologically disturbed boys father.
A revenge story, then.
I feel sickly after I watch it.
At first the surgeons friendship with the boy seems positive.
He seems to be mentoring him and helping him deal with the loss of his father.
But the boy is dark.
Thats when the boy reveals his secret and gives the surgeon a gruesome choice.
The Killing of a Sacred Deercomes in through a side door.
It doesnt promise or deliver jump scares or a barbarian killer with a knife hulking toward the screen.
Rather than scary, itsunsettling.
It gets under your skin and dares you to start to scratch.
Whats so compelling about this movie is how…oddit is.
Even the way this kid eats spaghetti is just egregiously weird.
It won best screenplay at Cannes when it came out.
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star.
Why arent you watching this movie yet??
The Killing of a Sacred Deeriscurrently streaming on Max.
