Indignation Has Some Great Acting But Feels Slight

While his Percy Jackson movie series sputtered out at just two movies, Logan Lerman has still emerged as quite the talented fellow in my eyes. He was phenomenal in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, held his own amidst an all-star cast in Noah and now he further proves his dramatic chops in Indignation, a summer 2016 film that served as one of two 2016 film adaptations of the works of Phillip Roth, the other being the dreadful American Pastoral. Logan Lerman is indeed mighty fine in the lead role of Indignation, even if the rest of the movie around him feels a bit more slight in comparison.

What The Actual Hell Is Going On With American Pastoral?

Now that we're 50 years removed from America in the 1960's, any given storytelling has enough distance from that 10 year period in this countries history to cultivate a story that can really lend a sharp eye to this decade with a sense of perspective. For his directorial debut, Ewan McGregor adapts the Philip Roth novel American Pastoral, which primarily takes place in the 1960's and revolves around various events that shaped this era, namely the Vietnam War and radical protestors of this war. And it ends up saying nothing at all and doing nothing despite attempting to give off the impression that lots of something are occurring on-screen. It's like that one passage from an Alice In Wonderland book where Alice has to keep running just to stay in one place.