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Showing posts with label Keane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keane. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
loss of a child...
Lodge Kerrigan:
A film about child abduction was prompted by Lodge Kerrigan's fear of his own daughter disappearing during a shopping excursion. "I realized, how in just four minutes, four minutes! your child could be abducted. Your life could be changed forever and there would be no way to recover from it. I knew that kind of visceral feeling would be a good starting point."[2] The result was In God's Hands, produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, which centered on the disintegration of a family after a child had been abducted. The film never was released due to "irreversible negative damage."[3] With nothing left of his film to salvage, Kerrigan began researching and writing a new project that became Keane.[4]
but what if....
The loss of a child is the most devastating experience a parent can face-and missing the child never goes away. A piece of yourself is lost and your future is forever changed.
The age of the child at the time of death does not lessen the hurt or devastation. It feels completely unnatural for a child to die before his or her parents. However, over 57,000 children under the age of 19 die every year in the United States.
Many grieving parents question whether life will hold any meaning for them and wonder how they will survive the pain of their loss. Parents describe the feeling as having a hole in their heart that will never heal, and may blame themselves and ask, "If only I had." Or they may be angry with their spouse, the physician, God, or the government.
Parents feel alone and isolated in their grief, as friends and relatives are often at a loss as to what to say. But it is important to talk to people who understand the loss. This may be family, friends, clergy, therapists, or support groups.
Everyone suffers loss in different ways depending upon their beliefs, culture, family history, and relationship with the person who died. It doesn't mean that others care less if they mourn differently than you do. Grief can also vary greatly depending upon how the child died. While some losses are less visible, such as miscarriage, other experiences of loss are more traumatic, such as an accident, illness, murder or death during war.
Miscarriage affects about 25 percent of women who become pregnant during their lifetime. The experience of pregnancy loss can be devastating to couples, yet the majority of women who miscarry become pregnant again soon after the loss. This can become emotionally and physically challenging for the couple. They are often plagued with concerns about the possibility of another miscarriage and whether they made an appropriate decision to conceive again.
Stillbirths, occurring in about 1% of pregnancies, can leave a feeling of disorientation, yearning and despair. Hospitals will give parents the option of spending time with the baby to say goodbye, and many parents have said that seeing their child was important for their grief process and enabled them to see the baby as a part of themselves. Another form of infant loss is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-the most frequent cause of death in children under one year of age-that creates a profound void and sense of loss in the family.
Approximately 2,000 children are reported missing every day, and these kidnappings and cases of missing children cause parents almost unbearable pain. Not knowing whether a child is dead or alive results in confusion, fright and anxiety. When the bodies of kidnapped children are found, parents may express saddened relief that their children can now have a proper burial and healing can finally begin.
The parents of murder victims face many unique struggles in their process of bereavement. A sense of loss of control is common, and the suddenness of the death is so overwhelming that, for a period of time, parents are often incapable of processing through the grief. For this group, dealing with spiritual beliefs, attitudes toward life, and general physical health may hold special importance.
Each day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and 35% of those will die. Cancer remains the number one disease killer of children. The anguish and extreme pain parents experience begins with diagnosis. One part of the parents' heart hopes for a cure, while the other part begins the quiet process of impending grief.
Parents often experience more anger, depression, guilt, and physical symptoms than those grieving other losses. Conflict can occur between the parents due to lack of understanding about each person's way of expressing grief. Marital problems, which were present before the child's death, can re-emerge, often with increased strength. Blaming can occur and the words that are said to each other in anger and grief can have a lifelong impact.
With time, the pain lessens and a different future is created. During the bereavement period, a wide array of emotions and symptoms can be experienced, such as denial, self-blame, sleeplessness, fatigue, anxiety and despair. These are all normal parts of the intense grieving process, and the intensity of feelings change as you move through bereavement.
A film about child abduction was prompted by Lodge Kerrigan's fear of his own daughter disappearing during a shopping excursion. "I realized, how in just four minutes, four minutes! your child could be abducted. Your life could be changed forever and there would be no way to recover from it. I knew that kind of visceral feeling would be a good starting point."[2] The result was In God's Hands, produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, which centered on the disintegration of a family after a child had been abducted. The film never was released due to "irreversible negative damage."[3] With nothing left of his film to salvage, Kerrigan began researching and writing a new project that became Keane.[4]
but what if....
The loss of a child is the most devastating experience a parent can face-and missing the child never goes away. A piece of yourself is lost and your future is forever changed.
The age of the child at the time of death does not lessen the hurt or devastation. It feels completely unnatural for a child to die before his or her parents. However, over 57,000 children under the age of 19 die every year in the United States.
Many grieving parents question whether life will hold any meaning for them and wonder how they will survive the pain of their loss. Parents describe the feeling as having a hole in their heart that will never heal, and may blame themselves and ask, "If only I had." Or they may be angry with their spouse, the physician, God, or the government.
Parents feel alone and isolated in their grief, as friends and relatives are often at a loss as to what to say. But it is important to talk to people who understand the loss. This may be family, friends, clergy, therapists, or support groups.
Everyone suffers loss in different ways depending upon their beliefs, culture, family history, and relationship with the person who died. It doesn't mean that others care less if they mourn differently than you do. Grief can also vary greatly depending upon how the child died. While some losses are less visible, such as miscarriage, other experiences of loss are more traumatic, such as an accident, illness, murder or death during war.
Miscarriage affects about 25 percent of women who become pregnant during their lifetime. The experience of pregnancy loss can be devastating to couples, yet the majority of women who miscarry become pregnant again soon after the loss. This can become emotionally and physically challenging for the couple. They are often plagued with concerns about the possibility of another miscarriage and whether they made an appropriate decision to conceive again.
Stillbirths, occurring in about 1% of pregnancies, can leave a feeling of disorientation, yearning and despair. Hospitals will give parents the option of spending time with the baby to say goodbye, and many parents have said that seeing their child was important for their grief process and enabled them to see the baby as a part of themselves. Another form of infant loss is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-the most frequent cause of death in children under one year of age-that creates a profound void and sense of loss in the family.
Approximately 2,000 children are reported missing every day, and these kidnappings and cases of missing children cause parents almost unbearable pain. Not knowing whether a child is dead or alive results in confusion, fright and anxiety. When the bodies of kidnapped children are found, parents may express saddened relief that their children can now have a proper burial and healing can finally begin.
The parents of murder victims face many unique struggles in their process of bereavement. A sense of loss of control is common, and the suddenness of the death is so overwhelming that, for a period of time, parents are often incapable of processing through the grief. For this group, dealing with spiritual beliefs, attitudes toward life, and general physical health may hold special importance.
Each day, 46 children are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and 35% of those will die. Cancer remains the number one disease killer of children. The anguish and extreme pain parents experience begins with diagnosis. One part of the parents' heart hopes for a cure, while the other part begins the quiet process of impending grief.
Parents often experience more anger, depression, guilt, and physical symptoms than those grieving other losses. Conflict can occur between the parents due to lack of understanding about each person's way of expressing grief. Marital problems, which were present before the child's death, can re-emerge, often with increased strength. Blaming can occur and the words that are said to each other in anger and grief can have a lifelong impact.
With time, the pain lessens and a different future is created. During the bereavement period, a wide array of emotions and symptoms can be experienced, such as denial, self-blame, sleeplessness, fatigue, anxiety and despair. These are all normal parts of the intense grieving process, and the intensity of feelings change as you move through bereavement.
- Talk about your child, if you want to. Although it may be painful, it can help you heal.
- Take time to do a familiar activity with your family. This helps to provide stability when your world is feeling chaotic.
- Join a support group; parents o
- Keep a journal; sometimes it is helpful to put down in words what you are feeling and thinking.
- ften respond that becoming involved in bereavement groups helped them through their loss and with their relationship.
- Seek therapy when you, or others close to you, feel that your grief is becoming too difficult to bear, or is too prolonged.
Keane...
"Kerrigan's great, incrementally affecting
movie, which was co-produced by Steven Soderbergh, presents this man as an
unmoored soul, drifting in dampness and cold. In having lost his daughter, he
appears to have lost a piece of his mind.
He stands in traffic screaming the little girl's name, sleeps in the grass beside the highway, and bathes in a public bathroom. Living is a state of psychological fragility… …
There is no villain to slay. There is no certain outcome. Nothing is stable. And as much as it kills Keane -- a handsome, if weary-looking redhead in his mid-30s -- life must go on… …Lewis is British, and his work here is rigorous and smart, particularly with Breslin, who has an uncommonly natural presence
Lewis's character is probably schizophrenic, but Lewis makes Keane's struggle against the disorder moving.”
Boston Globe
“While a less adept performer would have played the protagonist as a madman, Lewis instead brings gravitas to a despairing human being. Throughout the film, he provides an edge of normality and reason to the character, the sense that not too deep down is his old self, a reasonably acting personality, presenting hope of recovery. Of course, this makes his crazy episodes all the more hard to watch, as we watch a sympathetic person tearing themselves down in front of strangers, seemingly oblivious to his own actions, utterly lost in self destruction and self torture… …Lewis transforms William Keane into a real person, one you wish to console, to talk down from the metaphorical ledge.”
He stands in traffic screaming the little girl's name, sleeps in the grass beside the highway, and bathes in a public bathroom. Living is a state of psychological fragility… …
There is no villain to slay. There is no certain outcome. Nothing is stable. And as much as it kills Keane -- a handsome, if weary-looking redhead in his mid-30s -- life must go on… …Lewis is British, and his work here is rigorous and smart, particularly with Breslin, who has an uncommonly natural presence
Lewis's character is probably schizophrenic, but Lewis makes Keane's struggle against the disorder moving.”
Boston Globe
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“While a less adept performer would have played the protagonist as a madman, Lewis instead brings gravitas to a despairing human being. Throughout the film, he provides an edge of normality and reason to the character, the sense that not too deep down is his old self, a reasonably acting personality, presenting hope of recovery. Of course, this makes his crazy episodes all the more hard to watch, as we watch a sympathetic person tearing themselves down in front of strangers, seemingly oblivious to his own actions, utterly lost in self destruction and self torture… …Lewis transforms William Keane into a real person, one you wish to console, to talk down from the metaphorical ledge.”
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Trivia Wednesday...
lets start with the Trivia Wednesday..today:-)
Did you know that Damian Lewis got the part for Brody without an audition after the Showtime people saw his brilliant independent movie Keane? If you have not seen it, you MUST!
no Keane no Brody!!
Did you know that Damian Lewis got the part for Brody without an audition after the Showtime people saw his brilliant independent movie Keane? If you have not seen it, you MUST!
no Keane no Brody!!
Monday, 1 September 2014
Keane critics...
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2006:
“The British actor
Damian Lewis gives the performance of his career in this involving,
compassionate picture by US indie writer-director Lodge Kerrigan: the story of
a lost soul in New York's Port Authority bus terminal, which marries up an
American location with the sensibility of European movie-making… As an actor,
Damian Lewis has been stretched as never before, and gives an outstanding
performance.”
source:the guardian 2006
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Keane is a
painfully specific figure but at the same time a totem, lean and frightening,
for a morass of modern anxieties. That might be this phenomenal film's emergent
achievement: Its raw hopelessness is its universality. If Keane's life is a
hurricane of delusions and terrifying mistakes, it's nothing we can't easily
imagine for ourselves… …Damian Lewis, vet of HBO's
Band of
Brothers, commits himself to the role's interior shitstorm with
unrelenting energy, and it's a triumph of post-Method selflessness when you
also consider the claustrophobic proximity of DP John Foster's
camera, and the fact that the scenes play out in real time, in crowded midtown
hubs.”
source:village voice 2005
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Emma talks about Keane
Keane
a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Lodge Kerrigan. Set
in New York City, it focuses on a mentally disturbed man trying to come
to terms with the abduction of his daughter several months earlier and
the relationship he develops with a young girl and her mother.
When I first downloaded and watched this film with Damian Lewis as the staring role, I was very skeptical, mainly because I had only seen him in very different roles, as Nicholas Brody, Soames and Charlie Crews. This I knew before even watching it was going to be something quite different. However once I was half way through it, I could see why it was one of Damian’s proudest acting moments, from the moment we meet William Keane, you feel a sense of sadness he is lost, in many ways similar to Brody, Soames and Crews, another character that he plays who is broken. Although as Keane goes on we can see he suffers with a mental illness. Like many characters Damian has played, William Keane is another character who we can only fall in love with.
The
film begins with Keane, at the Port Authority Bus Terminal looking for
his daughter who had allegedly been abducted several months earlier, he
is asking random people if they have seen her, describing her to every
person he sees, people are either ignoring him, walking away from him
with a horrified look or they are politely saying no, he looks sad, lost
and lonely, we can see he is an emotional wreck from such a short
scene. He then goes back to his cheap hotel room which he owes money
on, he spends a lot of time alone drinking, taking drugs, and talking to
himself about his ex wife and the birth of their daughter.
Keane
meets Lynn and her daughter Kira, who is close in age to his missing
child. Lynn is having financial difficulties, and he insists she take
some money from him. She asks Keane to watch Kira for a few hours, then
calls the motel and leaves a message she will not be returning that
night as planned. Keane reassures the worried child, who fears her
mother has abandoned her, that she loves her and will be back. His
compassion for the child is quite overwhelming and by now I have
probably cried about 2 or 3 times. He forms a strong bond with the
little girl, and takes her skating and teaches her how, once they finish
Keane has a paranoid moment where he thinks someone is watching him and
the little girl, we watch him become anxious and nervous and start
shouting, but the little girl calms him down and makes him feel better.
When Lynn arrives later, she explains she was with Kira's Father Eric, who has arranged for them to move as he has found a job.
Keane
is desperate not to lose Kira because she reminds him so much of Sophia
(Keanes missing Daughter), he goes to her school, takes her without
permission, and brings her with him to the Port Authority Bus Terminal,
allegedly to meet her mother there and board a bus to Albany. There he
sends her to buy candies, as his daughter had done several months
earlier, just minutes before she was abducted. It seems as if Keane is
re living the tragic loss of his daughter, perhaps expecting the
abductor to show up again and try this time to abduct Kira too -as he
was expecting him to show up every time he was visiting the station for
all those months, imagining his plan and his schedule. This doesn't
happen. He cries for his losses and decides to really get her to her
mother. Kira tells him she loves him and he says he loves her too.
This
is possibly one of the most powerful roles i have seen Damian Lewis in
and it left me wanting to see more and more of his amazing work.
Keane Plot
Searching for his missing
daughter Sophia in the Port
Authority Bus Terminal, from which she was abducted several months
earlier, William Keane confronts ticket agents and random passersby with a
newspaper account of her disappearance, but no one recalls seeing the little
girl. After spending the night wandering the streets and sleeping along the
side of the highway, he returns to the cheap hotel where he is living and finds
he is unable to get into his room. The desk clerk tells him his payment is in
arrears, and Keane covers the cost of another week's stay with a disability
check.
Alone in his hotel room,
Keane drinks beer and talks to himself about his ex-wife and the birth of their
daughter, and he reads the clippings about another abducted New Jersey girl who
was found and reunited with her parents he keeps in an envelope. He makes
contact with a drug dealer and purchases cocaine, and the more he ingests the
more paranoid he becomes, certain he is being followed and watched and even
going so far as physically attacking a man he believed was watching him. He
goes to a nightclub and snorts coke with a woman named Michelle, then has sex
in a bathroom stall with her.
Back at his motel, Keane
meets Lynn Bedik and her daughter Kira, who is close in age to his missing
child. Lynn clearly is having financial difficulties, and he insists she take
the $100 he offers her. She asks Keane to watch Kira for a few hours, then
calls the motel and leaves a message she will not be returning that night as
planned. Keane reassures a despondent Kira, who fears Lynn has abandoned her,that
her mother loves her and will be back.
The following day, Keane
takes Kira to a local indoor skating rink and teaches her how to ice skate.
While they are playing skee ball
in the adjacent arcade, Keane believes he is being watched by another patron
and becomes agitated. Kira manages to calm him and they return to the motel.
When Lynn arrives later, she explains she was with Kira's father Eric, who has
arranged for them to move to Albany, New York, where he
has found a job.
Desperate not to lose Kira
because she reminds him so much of Sophia, Keane goes to her school, takes her
without permission, and brings her with him to the Port Authority, allegedly to
meet her mother there and board a bus to Albany. There he sends her to buy
candies, as his daughter had done several months earlier, just minutes before
she was abducted. It seems as if Keane is reviving the tragic loss of his
daughter, perhaps expecting the abductor to show up again and try this time to
abduct Kira to -as he was expecting him to show up every time he was visiting
the station for all those months, imagining his plan and his schedule. This
doesn't happen. He cries for his losses and decides to really get her to her
mother. Kira tells him she loves him and he says he loves her too.
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