Saturday, January 19, 2013

Promised Land


Movie: Promised Land
Genre: drama
Synopsis: Steve Butler (Matt Damon) and Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) work for a natural gas company.  Their job is to move into rural financially-depressed areas and buy up the mineral rights.  Their company then moves in with their drilling equipment to extract natural gas from the land using fracking technology.  Steve honestly believes what he is doing is the best way for these communities to make some money and get out of debt.  In their latest town, one resident, Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook), raises some awkward questions at a town meeting.  When Frank is joined by an eco-activist (John Krasinski) in a heated attempt to thwart Steve and stop the gas company.  Eventually, Steve is forced to face some awkward truths about the company he so believed in.
My two cents: A pretty solid movie.  Matt Damon put in his usual fine performance, as did Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, and Hal Holbrook.  I especially enjoyed Matt Damon’s character as he went from being naively eager for the people to sell their property rights to realizing that his actions were leading to a lot of misery by a lot of people.  I have to say that the twist near the end really caught me by surprise.

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