Come Morning

SPOILER: When Papaw died, I cried. Seriously. I'm from Arkansas, lost my papaw not that long ago (not like in this film though) ... he was a hunter. I was a year old in 1973, grew up in the 1970s Arkansas... so this film hits a bit close to home for me.

One of the saddest films I've ever seen. It's a very somber dramatic thriller film from the start and remains that way throughout the movie - it's a tear jerker - fair warning if you decided to watch this one.

"It'll be alright come morning" papaw said to his grandson D before he passed on. It is an appropriate title for the film... and in one way everything was made alright, but in another way it was not because D will never forget this day and the events that unfolded over night into the morning light.

Well worth watching if you like extremely sad movies - if you don't then pass this film by because it might have tears in your eyes.

10/10

Quality micro-budget feature with muted, measured direction, naturalistic performances and a serious intent. It's a film I respected far more than enjoyed as, ultimately, it suffered somewhat from little variation in its somber, one note, tone (picking up only slightly in the last few minutes). The unintentional effect (or, perhaps, it was very intentional) is it made the film slower than it needed to be and considerably less engaging. You tend to witness it occur, as opposed to be involved with it. I hope this flaw is corrected in Mr. Sim's future films (unless it really is an artistic choice - in which case I might not agree with it, but I'm not going to fault it). Still in all it was a relief to see the restrained performances, equally restrained direction, and have it all play out in a confidently realistic milieu.

Sometimes a slow pace works for a movie, but usually not. This movie was very slow-paced and boring, hard to sit through, and it certainly didn't have an ending that payed off. Sometimes even when a movie's ending does "pay off," meaning it's satisfying or has an impressive twist, it still doesn't justify the wait. But in this case, the ending was just as flat as the rest of the movie, and very unsatisfying. I also am surprised that some reviewers praised the cinematography. I saw nothing special there. I certainly didn't come away thinking that this was worth an hour of my time.

I didn't want to bag on this movie too hard because it feels like the people who made it did have a story they wanted to tell and it feels sincere in a sense and they didn't really have much of a budget to work with either.

However the fact that the only reviews here as I am writing this have 10/10 ratings and talk about it being amazing I felt like I kinda had to at least give a different opinion on the movie.

I don't really see how anyone could think that this is a 10/10 movie but to each their own.

For me, it didn't make me feel any kind of emotions or make me invest in any of the characters and I just found it rather empty and slow.

I mean stuff does happen but for whatever reason it didn't make me feel anything.

I didn't know it was supposed to be set in 1973 until I came here to rate the movie I just seen, it has zero indications to it being set in 1973 and I have no idea why it would have to be either.

It also gets a little confusing with the narrative sometimes jumping back in time without indications of it doing so, and the end felt like they didn't know how to end it it just kinda stopped.

Yeah I'm not terribly impressed with this one, I'm sure the director will make a good movie in the future, this just isn't it

Underrated film, for sure.

The emotion that unravels during this flick is seriously dramatic. I think if you've ever spent any time either happening upon, or living in, a place like this, which is not exclusive to where this film takes place, but a backwoods way of life, this will hit you hard. The acting performances, though subtle, are very strong. I am surprised this hasn't had more accolades to be honest. Well done, definitely well directed and sensitive at the same time. Gotta love the sinister ways of small towns and freak tragedy combined into a well deserved high rating. I'm glad I watched it.