In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean Wa... Read allIn 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
- Awards
- 8 nominations
- Mo Greenberg
- (as Rich Topol)
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- TriviaThe name of the college is a tribute to Sherwood Anderson's classic collection of interconnected short stories, "Winesburg, Ohio."
- GoofsOlivia makes reference to a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin when she says "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Franklin most likely never said this. This quote does not appear in any of Franklin's writings and the word "lunch" did not enter the English vernacular until the 1820s; decades after his death.
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Marcus Messner: It is important to understand about dying, that even though in general you do not have a personal choice in the matter, it is going to happen to you when it happens to you. There are reasons you die. There are causes, a chain of events linked by causality, and those events include decisions that you have personally made. How did you end up here, on this exact day, at this exact time, with this specific event happening to you?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film '72: Episode #45.10 (2016)
- SoundtracksIs It Love
Music by Jay Wadley
Lyrics by James Schamus
Special Performance by Jane Monheit
Arranged and conducted by Andy Farber
Recorded and Mixed by Dan Bora
Recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Mixed at Terminus Recording Studios, NYC
Couple of comments: this is the big screen adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. I haven't read the book so I cannot comment how closely the movie adaptation sticks to the book. This is also the debut of director James Schamus, best know for previously having co-written several of Ang Lee's movies, including "The Ice Storm". Here Schamus brings to life what things were like in the US while the Korean war was raging. Marcus didn't choose to go to college so as to avoid the draft, but because he just loves learning. It is what gives Marcus his identity. However, encountering Olivia changes all that. The movie moves at a slow pace (and I mean that as a complement), certain scenes literally take minutes and minutes to play out. There are several such scenes that are key to the film (Marcus' meeting with the Dean of Students seems to take up at least 10 minutes), allowing plenty of time to examine subject like religious freedom and the at times stifling academic settings on campus. Schamus is able to extract great performances from the leads, Logan Lerman as Marcus and Sarah Gadon as Olivia. But Trace Letts (better known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of such (screen)plays as "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County" ) almost steals the movie as the Dean of Students.
"Indignation" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival to major critical acclaim. The movie finally opened this weekend at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati, and I couldn't wait to see it. The Saturday early evening screening was PACKED, much to my surprise, Who knew there was such a pent-up demand for this film? The audience absolutely loved the film. It might well be that "Indignation" can become a solid hit on the art-house theater circuit. If you are in the mood for a well-written and well-acted drama about being in college in the early 50s, this movie is just for you. "Indignation" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
- paul-allaer
- Aug 12, 2016
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- Also known as
- Sự Phẫn Nộ
- Filming locations
- The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, USA(Classrooms, Chapel and Women's Dorm)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,401,155
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $93,125
- Jul 31, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $3,924,527
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
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