Evan Peters & Barry Keoghan's Gut-Wrenching Movie About a Real-Life Heist
American Animals is so insightful, illuminating, and terrifically tense — it's hard to relinquish that grip on the armrest.
A powerfully realized true story or docudrama can be exhilarating at the best of times and few come as gut-wrenching as 2018's absurdly gripping American Animals. Somehow, the flick is still underrated to this day, yet remains as strong as they come when testifying to the power of the aforementioned filmmaking mode. Touching the Void, for example, from the early 2000s, is a true-to-life survival tale about two daring climbers whose Everest expedition hit a snag when one of them fell into a gaping crevasse during the descent. It was much more documentary than re-enacted drama (though the actors shone) – but the impact was heavy. American Animals is, for the most part, a recreation of the events that occurred in 2004 when a quartet of bored college students decided to rob an art exhibit containing priceless books at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
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