I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE may sound like a song title from a My Chemical Romance album but it certainly packs a punch. IDFAHITWA feels like it should have been a Coen Brothers film with a firm tongue in cheek approach to a spiralling series of events with an innocently normal nobody at the centre of it all.
When Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) returns home from the day from hell to see her home burgled, she takes to vigilantism to reclaim the irreplaceable goods. Teaming up with neighbour Tony (Elijah Wood), the pair go to the very top of a crime ring to catastrophic results. A revenge thriller with charm and unforgiving violence marries elements of BLUE RUIN meets FARGO as the unlikely duo take to extreme measure of action and get subsequently tied up in a direction that is never always apparent.
Macon Blair’s appearances in the thrillers of GREEN ROOM and BLUE RUIN seems to have created a natural evolvement in his writing style as the tight revenge thriller could easily be added into un unconnected trilogy to the films. Ruth’s quest for a meaning of life and her downtrodden lifestyle are perfect triggers for someone so close to the edge, emotions perfectly captured by Lynskey and only when Elijah Wood appears on screen does the chemistry between the two create something more appealing from the misery that envelopes the environment of the story.
At times funny, others miserable, IDFAHITWA culminates its meandering characterises with a blood bath of vicious violence and slapstick death that’s as horrific as it is enchanting. The mysticism and realism of Blair’s characters is a great study of how everyday life could easily spiral into something of headlines and with the central cast well versed in good stories, IDFAHITWA is a must watch for anyone who likes their drama with a few glasses of claret.
Director: Macon Blair
Released: 24th February 2017
Running Time: 93 minutes
Age Rating: TBC
Reviewer: Martyn Wakefield
RATING

Plot: 4
Fear: 2
Gore: 3

R4/5​
