The Pledge

With The Pledge, Sean Penn returns to the rural surroundings of his amazingly mature directorial debut The Indian Runner, but that films 70's milieu is updated to a bleak present. Thematically the films are similar, but the Cain and Able-like conflict of The Indian Runner is in The Pledge replaced by a man pushed out of time and place by his retirement. The man is gradually alienated from his former peers and distanced from the new place he moves to by the sheer brute force of his refusal to be rational about something he can no longer handle.

The Pledge is a return to form not only for Penn but also for Jack Nicholson, leading a choice cast of actors with one of his most subdued and multi-layered roles in a long time.

Jan Elvsén

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Jack Nicholson, Benicio del Toro, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard: Producent
Sean Penn, Michael Fitzgerald, Elie Samaha: Manus
Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski: Foto
Chris Menges: Musik
Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt: Talat språk
English