Review of Umrika

Umrika (2015)
8/10
No surprise it won the Audience Award at Sundance
26 March 2023
The surprise to me is that it hasn't been seen more - or reviewed more - since its Sundance launch in 2015. It's quite a good film that becomes engaging in a way that builds steadily.

In contrast to another reviewer here, I want to suggest that the plot is unpredictable, at least at the level of specifics and so I don't want to even give an alert and talk about spoilers.

I recommend watching it - it's a quality film with a theme that digs deep - into what I would call the role of a fantasy in not just one person's life but reverberating, like falling dominoes, into surrounding lives ... more specifically, how something of a fluke (a wedding present) can stimulate a fantasy that over time impacts every member of a family across generations due to fallout from that one instigating worshipful fantasy, in varying ways that determine the life trajectory of others rather than the original fantasizer.
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