God's Creatures is Emily Watson's stark, foreboding show - and that's a good thing for the chilling drama. rockmarooned's review:
, he’s greeted as if he’s been lost at sea, perhaps presumed dead. That’s not the case; from the sound of it, he’s been bumming around Australia in a ramshackle attempt to make something, anything, of himself, clearly nursing some long-held familial grudges.
It also doesn’t necessarily look like the sort of place where a guy like Brian would be returning in triumph, but Aileen, so glad to have her son back within reach, ignores this. And why wouldn’t she? She’s just been to a local funeral for a friend’s son, around Brian’s age, and when Brian returns home promising to restart the family’s oyster-fishing business, it feels like a hopeful renewal in the face of looming death.
The foreboding doesn’t stop with Brian’s eventual transgression; the filmmakers are attuned to how local-boy camaraderie in the face of tragedy can be just as chilling as the tragedy itself. Aileen wants desperately to believe her son’s protestations of innocence, and tries to politely negotiate the community discomfort festering in front of her—moreso than Erin, who is understandably incensed—while doubt and disappointment nag at her.
Watson, as is her custom, does extraordinary work as Aileen, able to convey major shifts in her thoughts and feelings about her son while seldom actually giving voice to them. Just by virtue of paying attention to her low-key expressiveness, the filmmakers almost allow Watson to overshadow the other performers, especially Franciosi and O’Rourke as women who are, to whatever degree, somewhat less accepting of the town’s traditions.
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