Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
I do love slow-paced thriller films and this is exactly that. Having said that, there is something that makes me uneasy about the ending. It is up to so many interpretations that the writer / director of the film didnt know himself how to end otherwise a close-to-brilliant story with a decent acting.
Would I watch it again? Possibly. Would I make my friends watch it? I guess so.
Take Shelters a slow burn, but it gets under your skin. Shannons greatproperly intenseand theres loads to chew on about fear, family, and mental health. Bit heavy-handed at times, and it drags in spots
The family LaForche live in a remote Ohio backwater where mother Samantha (Jessica Chastain) looks after their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart) whilst dad Curtis (Michael Shannon) works for a local drilling outfit. Recently, though, things have become a bit strained as he has been having fairly graphic and disturbing nightmares. These foretell of the mother of all storms sweeping all before it before something ever more ghastly occurs. As these dreams intensify, he begins to struggle determining what is real and what isnt. Are these hallucinations or is he perhaps seeing an unwelcome future? Initially, both he and Samantha think this could be stress-related and so he seeks medical advice that merely results in him becoming medicated. Whe...