Review of Scarecrow

Didn't really enjoy this one. To begin with i just didn't think the relationship between the two lead characters was all that well developed , i mean i can understand why Max needed Lion but i cannot understand why Lion needed Max at all. The only reason why Lion got along with Max is because Lion was really nice and patient to him even though Max didn't really give anything for him at all. With that said i wonder why didn't Lion make friends prior to the beginning of the film? He is not that problematic at all as the film shows us that in reality the sum of his problems are essentially that he got his former girlfriend pregnant and just disappeared. Far from me to sympathize or even justify that kind of behavior but that's hardly something you get ostracized for. I also thought that the whole prison quarrel between them felt forced just so that they could include the completely unnecessary and out of place rape attempt scene. But now i get it. Hadn't the rape scene occur the viewer would've been a lot less inclined to believe that Lion snapped at the end.

And about that. By far the thing that i disliked the most about this film. The film develops during its length that there is a better way to deal with life, that if you just make people happy then everything will eventually turn out okay, but then out of nowhere the film creates such a scenario in which both of their characters are being penalized for acting in good faith, resulting ultimately in Lion being institutionalized and Max abandoning him. The film is okay. Quite slow but okay. That is if you like to be bummed out by defeatist nihilist films.