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Aug 4, 2016 · Philip Roth's book "Indignation" is now a film directed by James Schamus. "Indignation" has the strength of its convictions and creates living, breathing characters in a setting that is fully ...
Nov 17, 2016 · Indignation review – another uninvolving plod through Roth. Philip Roth’s dark tale of an intense young Jewish student at a repressive 1950s college never entirely comes to life in James ...
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Based on Philip Roth's novel, INDIGNATION takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner, a brilliant working-class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus's growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton, and his clashes with the college's ...
Based on Philip Roth's novel, INDIGNATION takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner, a brilliant working-class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus's growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton, and his clashes with the college's ...
When his mother asks Marcus to give up Olivia, Marcus makes some bad decisions ending in tragedy. INDIGNATION is shot well and has an emotionally devastating, extremely poignant ending. However, it’s eventually unsatisfying and sometimes shallow, confusing, misguided, and lewd. Also, the worldview is mixed, with a false, depressing view of an ...
