Tomato Red (2017) Reviews

• Four- or Five-hundred Lines of Really Good Free Verse Poetry

  ex76172017-05-03

  The same author's Winter's Bone had a big impact. I saw it on DVD or Netflix and was duly impressed, but not nearly so much as with this lackadaisically paced, (beautifully filmed, I guess), truly poetic telling of some not-improbable (in fact, very lifelike-seeming) marginal SW US characters doing what they have to in the face of a sociopolitical environment that is obviously, to an almost comical extent, thoroughly stacked against them! Bravo, everyone - actors, writer/director, casting, DP, editor(s) - and keep up the good work!

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• Blood, Pain, and The Horror!

  gpknopp2017-05-02

  What a beautiful movie. This movie made crass and smelly, trailer folk attractive, and ethical. The editing and cinematography are impeccable. I loved the pacing, particularly the rhythm of the of the character development. The cinematography and sound are incredible. Oh, and social relevance. It reminds me of Winter's Bone in the context of its outlook. Lower class struggling Americans, oppressing by this shitty economic system that exploits everybody who can't afford no lawyer. But instead of smelling like cheap soap and cheap booze, they smell like the desert they live in. Freedom lovers everywhere are oppressed, right?

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• Don't miss Tomato Red.

  peoplepower-588-2273562017-05-07

  This is just one of hundreds of new films I've seen in the last few years, and one of the better and more memorable. I've seen thousands of films, and (imho) this one ought to be rated at least 7.4; and for those of us whom especially appreciate good writing and fine performances tempered with deft direction, maybe 8+. The story summary at IMDb is close enough, but misdirects with clichés, which together with the low budget almost led me to pass it by. Instead, I'm lifted by the reminder that truly good stories just need good storytellers.

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• Friends come from anywhere

  nogodnomasters2017-12-01

  Sammy (Jake Weary) gets out of prison and thinks he hit rock bottom when he runs into Jamalee (Julia Garner) and her brother Jason (Nick Roux). He teams up with them because he has no where else to go. He meets their mother Beverly (Anna Friel) who works as one of the town's prostitutes...out of her home. She feeds everyone. These are the people who were too poor and trashy to be in "Winterbone." There is a constant showing of a train giving us a tiring "wrong side of the tracks" symbolism. The film attempts to make a statement about class, class struggle and staying in the class you are born into, but falls short of anything that Marx could recognize. Guide: F-word. sex. no nudity.

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• Tomato Red

  hunter_michaela2017-05-11

  I'm generally biased against American films and their lack of subtlety but think I would watch any independent film with Julia Garner in it, she's that good. I also really enjoyed the honesty of the main character in his acknowledgment of his position in life. Sometimes a narration in a film comes across cheesy, and it was at times - but it was paramount to the film that the marginalized be given a voice. The cinematography is stunning also.

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