Product: Day of Vengeance (2008)
Rating: 5.0
Director Pingree is Tarantino, only more creative and subtle.
Fortunate enough to see an early screening of Day of Vengeance, my buddies and I savored it.Director Isaac Pingree offers the Town of Covelo, California as a rich, dusty, seedy backdrop -- analogous to the Wadi Rum desert in "Lawrence of Arabia" in that it serves as a compelling character unto itself.Against that backdrop, Pingree paints scenes like a schizophrenic cinematographic master. At times, he is Monet -- offering deliberate, subtle strokes giving a surficial impression, slowly urging the viewer to connect the dots himself and speculate about what lies beneath. Then, without warning, Pingree is Pollack -- violently splashing scenes upon the screen in what initially seems a haphazard manner, until the pace slows briefly, allowing Pingree's rich and penetrating tale and message to coalesce.Watch it. Closely. Appreciate. "Day of Vengeance" is what indie film should be.