The megawatt Hollywood star marks her return to our screens in this quiet, compelling war drama
Jennifer Lawrence to be something she is not usually allowed to be on screen: quiet. Lawrence plays Lynsey, an American soldier who’s suffered a brain injury while in Afghanistan, and is returning to her hometown in New Orleans. But before that, she must adjust to everyday life, outside of a war zone with the help of a very patient carer Sharon . She learns how to move her body, she starts to drive again, she does some vague memory games .
writer Ottessa Moshfegh – is intelligent, with a few good lines. Her doctor asks her about how she sustained her injury, prompting Lynsie to go into excruciating length about her accident, which involves explosions, brain bleeds, human flesh on fire – the stuff of unimaginable trauma. “Tell me, how are you sleeping?”, the doctor asks. “Not great,” Lynsie deadpans. There’s that Lawrence attitude, the edge that was transfused into sarcastic GIFs which powered the internet for much of the 2010s.
The film, as with many films where not much happens, is almost impossible to spoil, and some may find it too glacial. Not everything here is perfect: the writing is sometimes so minimal it comes across as lazy rather than understated, Lynsie’s recovery seems awfully neat. A few moments – including a reunion with her brother – come out of nowhere in the last half hour. But it’s worth it to watch the two leads’ relationship grow and falter.
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