Small Things Like These

Fell in love with Cilian Murphy's character in about an hour. Beautiful, quiet, contemplative movie.

I'm quite fond of this, a worthy adaptation of a great novel. In a movie that is the portrayal of the working of conscience, Mielants does a great job of allowing the audience to sit with the silences that inevitably come. Answers and courses of action are not immediately apparent, but become so as one reflects on "past, present, and future" as young Bill reads from Dickens early in the film. This is such a great portrait of justice wrought by regular people, a worthy subject for sure.

Small scale story that tackles big themes with an incredible performance by Cillian Murphy-a truthful and worthy adaptation of the novel.