Friday, November 7, 2008




KEANE (Lodge H. Kerrigan, US, 2004, 100 m.). SPOILER ALERT! THEMES: GRIEF; LOSS; PTSD; REENACTMENT OF TRAUMATIC SITUATION. William Keane (Damian Lewis) is a man haunted by the abduction of his young daughter, apparently whisked away from the Port Authority bus terminal in New York City months ago, never to be seen or heard of again. Keane is a highly disturbed man, living on disability payments. His life orbits around the loss of his daughter. He hangs out at the terminal, looking for a perpetrator he has never seen. He becomes convinced he’s found the right man at one point, and attacks him. Such is the privacy of Keane’s misery that we’re never sure whether this was a mistaken identification, based on some paranoid delusion, whether his daughter was in fact kidnapped, or, for that matter, if he had a daughter. But he does believe all of these things.


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