ニトラム／NITRAM
"僕は、僕以外になりたかった。"
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1996年4月28日、オーストラリアのタスマニア島で起きた悲劇。死者35人、負傷者15人と同国史上最悪の無差別銃乱射事件を引き起こしたのは、当時28歳の青年マーティン。子どものころから情緒不安定で、名前のMARTINを逆さ読みにしたNITRAM＝ニトラムと呼ばれ、絶えずバカにされながら育った彼が、いかにして冷酷な無差別殺人犯へと変貌を遂げたのか。実力個性派のＣ・Ｌ・ジョーンズが主人公の抱える孤独な内面を痛々しいまでにリアルに体現し、絶賛を博した衝撃の人間ドラマ。監督は「スノータウン」のJ・カーゼル。第11回オーストラリア・アカデミー賞で、作品、監督賞をはじめ、主要8部門を受賞。第74回カンヌ国際映画祭ではジョーンズが男優賞に輝いた。 オーストラリアの観光地タスマニア島で両親とともに暮らすニトラム。子どものころから情緒不安定で落ち着きがなく、花火で大やけどを負い、入院する騒ぎを起こしたこともある彼を、両親は絶えずハラハラしながら見守っていた。サーフィンに憧れを抱く彼は、ボードを買う金を稼ぐため、近所の庭の芝刈りのバイトをすることを思い付く。引きこもりの裕福な女性ヘレンと知り合ったニトラムはつかの間の自由と幸福を味わうのだが……。
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Caleb Landry Jones is really good as the eponymous character in this well told story of the build up to the worst gun-crime atrocity in Australian history. As the title may suggest, this young man has some mental health issues that his peers have enjoyed ridiculing over the years and that his parents Judy Davis and Anthony LaPaglia have spent some time trying to manage - and that's not been an easy task. He wants to learn to surf, but to buy a board he needs cash so starts his own lawn-cutting enterprise. He asks an eccentric, but wealthy, local woman "Helen" (Essie Davis) if he can cut her lawn but his mower breaks down so she asks him to walk her dogs instead. The pair start to bond over some Gilbert & Sullivan, and after a row with his long suffering mother he moves in and the pair plan a trip to Los Angeles together. Tragedy strikes before they can go, and he finds himself inheriting her wealth. This benefaction comes too late to stop another family tragedy but it does enable him to fund an unhealthy obsession with (very easily obtained) semi-automatic guns! Judy Davis offers a fine and nuanced performance here as his truly conflicted mother and Essie Davis is also really quite effective as his dog-loving friend who accepts him unreservedly. The film is presented as if these seemingly unrelated scenarios were a sequence of precariously stacked dominoes. Once one tumbles, there is an inevitability that "Nitram" will lose what little grasp he has and resort to something shocking - though perhaps not quite this! It is not a cheery film, indeed it is quite depressing to watch for much of the latter stages once hope has been well and truly extinguished from the young man's life; but it is most certainly worth watching if you are in the mood for something challenging.
