"99 Homes" is a compelling film that drives movie critics to give strong reviews. The film is viewed as terrific yet taut, scary look at real estate crisis.
The "99 Homes" movie presents a thriller that reveals the reality of the real estate industry. The Guardian says that Michael Bahrani, together with the cast of the movie, has successfully "cranked up the tension in gut-wrenching fashion" in narrating the plot of the story.
It is disclosed (warning: spoilers ahead) that "99 Homes" is a "gripping economic drama set in foreclosure-stricken 2010." It is a story about a young single-father named Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) who got evicted from his home together with his son and mother. Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), a real estate broker and spearheads the house eviction, casts on the streets the belongings of Nash. Being homeless, Nash has dispatched his family to a seedy motel. But then, that's just the beginning of the problem, the story complicates when "Dennis soon finds himself working for Carver, evicting others as he learns that America doesn't bail out losers."
Kentucky says that "99 Homes" reveals how real estate can be a bloody business. The film exposes the other side of the real estate industry, which is "dirty, bloody and soul-sucking business," especially during the crisis in 2010.
Based on its review, "99 Homes" has "rich cinematic territory" that is extracted for its genre. The film is artistically woven that it clearly depicts its theme concerning "home and hearth, the symbol of family and the American dream." Aside from that, it also presents some of the things that probably have remained unspeakable in the real estate business, which are boldly and critically tackled in this movie. For instance, "there are banks and Realtors who only see numbers on a balance sheet and addresses on a map, commodities to be shuffled and traded, squeezed of every last possible dollar." Indeed, Director and co-writer Rahmin Bahrani has arranged the movie from a point of view that play up "the horror inherent in the nasty business of foreclosures and evictions, with the vultures offering cash for keys circling the carrion of homeowners behind on payments."
As the conflicts of "99 Homes" evolve, the story confronts its audience on the difficulty that people face in order to survive. Truly, the movie- as the critic puts it- the scariest movie that you'll see because it makes the viewers see themselves in the situation. It deals with personal choices that everyone makes, including the "moralistic judgments on the honesty of the work, which is the less compelling question in this matter of life and death." Pop Matters says people will get emotional while watching this movie.
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