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When a high school student named Simon (Devon Bostick) casts himself as the surviving child of a would-be terrorist in a class assignment, he begins a dizzying journey into his own family's mysterious past. Atom Egoyan's 12th feature employs a fractured chronology that interweaves multiple narratives and characters into a web of connection, as fraught and delicate as the web of a spider. After his French teacher Sabine (played by Arsinée Khanjian) convinces Simon to present his essay as a true story, his decision to continue the deception online creates a virtual firestorm. Soon the clamour of competing voices and opinions has reached near bedlam. Everyone has an opinion, and the need to voice it as loudly as possible. But is this merely democracy (facilitated by the internet) in action, or something more insidious? While there a number of hot button issues raised (suicide bombers, violence and suffering), the film focuses in on subtler, albeit, no less destructive, acts of emotional terrorism. In typical Egoyan fashion, there is a welter of issues explored, including the clash of ideologies and identity mediated through technology, but by far the most complex notion at play is the human tendency towards deception (self and otherwise).
Like earlier Egoyan films (
Speaking Parts in particular) that dealt with isolation and longing,
Adoration similarly examines reality as merely a catalyst upon which a myriad of stories can be projected. It is a process that is increasingly facilitated by webcams and social networking sites; technological extrusions that project our most intimate secrets outwards in whispered incantations of the lonely and the lost. Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.
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