Young Adam is a very strange film. It's a slow burn, reverse-but-not-really film where we follow a guy who might be mixed up in a murder but we don't really know why or how. And there's lots of sex.
Ewan Macgregor is sort of like Johnny Depp Lite. He does the mainstream stuff that we all love and know and enjoy - Star Wars, Moulin Rouge, Down with Love, The Island (ok that's pushing it) - but he also does these strange indie-type films where we gets to brood and act silly and show us his willy. In this one, it's a one-man road trip with lots of fucking and slow unraveling of the strands surrounding the aforementioned mysterious murder.
Some may find the going slow and tedious. I've sat through Solyaris, and I love 2001. Young Adam is pretty good for what it wants to be.
Bottom Line: Recommended for patient viewers with an eye (and ear) for detail, and who don't mind seeing other peoples' privates.
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