James Gray’s quietly extraordinary 'Armageddon Time' is all about that gap between wanting to do the right thing and doing it, and how civilization can rise or fall depending on how many people are willing to act 📝: Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek)
), who wears an outmoded crew cut and repairs boilers for a living, tries but usually fails to keep order. Paul has an older brother, Ted , who goes to private school and who doesn’t seem to like his younger sibling that much, though Gray signals that he’s not all bad—he’s the one who has brought the Raincoats’ sublime anthem of dislocation “Fairytale in the Supermarket” into the household, so we know there’s something going on under the hood there.
But Paul will listen to no one except his grandfather, Aaron , an English transplant whose mother had escaped anti-Semitic persecution, and personal tragedy, decades earlier in Ukraine. Aaron sees all that’s special about Paul, things Paul can’t yet see in himself. When Esther suggests that art can be a hobby but not a career for Paul, Aaron buys him good acrylic paints.
Paul is both porous and stubborn, but above all, he’s still just a kid. He’s tall for his age, with beanpole legs, but he’s not one of these preternaturally wise children: his face, sweet yet quizzical, perpetually looks as if he’s thinking things through, and sometimes coming up with the wrong answer. Repeta’s performance is wonderful, but it was Webb’s that broke me.
But one person after another lets Johnny down—even, indirectly, Paul’s parents, who are the kind of good citizens who deplore the ascent of Ronald Reagan. They’re liberal, to a point, and adamantly “not racist”—as long as there are no Black people in their own backyard. And Paul can’t see that if he gets into a scrape with the law, he’ll have a way out; Johnny won’t.
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