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This isnt a lefty rant: That this is how things work shouldnt even be up fordebate.
(You wanna flush your career down the toilet for some cowhand?)
This is Hayness most traditionally structured film, missing his trademark cinema-studies syntax.
(That characterization is meant affectionately, mostly.)
The toxins inSafeare metaphorical but have a literal component, while the toxins inDark Watersare literal but metaphorical too.
ThatDark Watersis repetitive is not a lapse in storytelling.
Incremental progress is followed by wasting delay at one point the forward momentum stops inexplicably for years.
This gives Haynes time to study not the corporate villains but the bystanders and their endless negotiations among themselves.
The actors never go soft.
Hathaway portrays the super-Christian Sarah as an ally but not a rock.
Fortunately, Bill Pullman arrives and does a Clarence Darrow number that keeps the movie from icing over.
