Abstract
Student Perspective: Take Shelter takes place in a small town in Ohio, where Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) lives with his beautiful wife Samantha and daughter Hannah, who is deaf. He has a great job as a construction crew chief but money is still tight. As the movie progresses, he begins to have visions and nightmares of horrific storms, tornadoes, and of being attacked. Due to these visions Curtis becomes consumed with building an adequate storm shelter for him and his family. His delusions and hallucinations stem from paranoid schizophrenia, a diagnosis he shares with his mother, and one that ultimately places strain on his personal relationships. In the Chicago Tribune, movie critic Michael Philips gave the film 3.5 stars and Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post rated the film with 4 stars and described it as “taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful.” We couldn’t agree more with these sentiments.
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