It’s unusual to hear a writer-director hope that his film is soon irrelevant, but that’s what Joel Edgerton would like for his quietly devastating adaptation of Boy Erased. However misguided their actions are, the parents in Boy Erased are far from twisted monsters. “The lack of understanding of parents sending a child off to the terrible place as an act of love; that’s a conundrum, that’s a serious conundrum,” Edgerton says. That was the whole reason to make the movie.”Joel Edgerton: reading Boy Erased “was like a train-wreck effect: craning your neck to look at other people going through pain. Human beings, at best, are pure beauty and love and, at worst, are diabolical.”Boy Erased opens on Friday, February 8th

Source: The Irish Times February 04, 2019 10:52 UTC