posted on: October 19, 2020
tags: inspirational. Coming up on HBO tomorrow, I Know This Much is True episode 6 is going to air … and this is the end of the road.
Wally Lamb’s novel ends with Thomas’ death and Ray’s illness creating a road toward complete reconciliation for Dominick and Dessa. Two Ruffalos are better than one. I Know This Much Is True is a Connecticut story, unfolding in one of that state’s many fading blue-collar towns caught between more exciting places.
Will he find peace? You want to know what happens to this family? What Cianfrance has done consistently well throughout his work is establish a sense of place.
June 7, 2020.
There’s a gentle, quiet—so quiet you almost can’t hear it—lyricism in Cianfrance’s work on this series. How do you think that the season is going to end?
The two end up married to each other once more and they create a family by adopting Dominick’s ex-girlfriend, Joy’s daughter together. It’s also managed to stay relevant and easy to follow and understand even if you don’t know the book at all. Is Jonathan Majors leaving Lovecraft Country; is Atticus really dead?
Maybe it’s in the literary adaptation that Cianfrance gets stuck, like in his film version of The Light Between Oceans—a lighthouse drama whose windswept woe seems as synthetic as its characters’ gorgeous wool sweaters are decidedly not. This project brings Ruffalo the closest he’s been, of late, to the granular, wistful realism of his breakout role in 2000’s You Can Count On Me, another weary but far more affecting sibling drama from Kenneth Lonergan. For most viewers, a perfect ending could be Dominick repainting his mother’s house and stating what he knows to be true. Ruffalo and the rest of the ensemble do their noble best to humanize each individual misery. But that is the language of hindsight, I suppose. By reading his grandfather’s book, Dominick is able to see that Ray has been there for him all along and so he works to repair that bond.
Looking for more? The turning point for Dominick is when he realizes that he has a chance to really take responsibility for how he treats those around him.
Check your inbox or spam folder now to confirm your subscription. The novel, and Lamb’s other work, have had their legions of fans, but I wonder how many have stuck with their ardor for the 24 years it took for this adaptation to happen.
I should probably disclose that, though it was a big thing for some kids in my high school back in the day, I have not read Lamb’s 900-page book. (Think of the more recent doorstopper A Little Life—or, to be fair, the overly tragedy-laden young-adult book written by this critic.) Ruffalo communicates that hopeful resignation quite well, building on Ettinger’s more wide-eyed performance to craft a man in full. Kathryn Hahn is softly shattering, as she so often is, as Dom’s grieving ex-wife.
He’s a particular fan of the forgotten towns far enough outside of major cities to not be suburban, but not so bucolic that they’re rural. From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter. It’s a towering wall of hardship, the kind that, yes, I suppose gives a novel the kind of literary heft often gravitated toward by people looking for a Serious Book.
The majority of our series-long questions are answered, but the ending leaves things slightly muddled — unless you know the source material.
Perhaps if I’d known that sad meta information beforehand, I would have felt something different while watching. Will he be able to build some bridges with those he has wronged in the past? (Photo: HBO.
Crucially, neither Ruffalo nor Ettinger overplay Thomas’s condition. There are plenty of lives in the world that have been rocked by one grueling thing after another; I wouldn’t want to dismiss their experiences as unrealistic melodrama. It plays more as hasty deus ex machina—or, at least, deus ex manuscript—than as a consistent part of the series’s thematic texture. This, in turn, reveals to him just who his father is — yes we learn his actual name is Henry Drinkwater — but ultimately Dominick knows that Ray is his father. I just wish it wasn’t so routinely overcome by yet another of Lamb’s gruesome trials, hurled at Dom and Thomas as if he were God and they were Job, cleaved in two. Or, perhaps more pertinently to what we’re talking about today, The Place Beyond the Pines, a masterful triptych epic about the legacy of a crime rippling through two generations of two families. I know this much is true.” ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True. This is a limited series based on some established source material, and from the jump, we had a feeling that there was always a clearly-defined beginning, middle, and end …
The relationship between Dom and Thomas is drawn with aching clarity, one brother trying to be good to the other while resentments build up around them.
Cianfrance tries to counterbalance that turgidity with his careworn, natural aesthetics, and he almost gets there, especially in the show’s last minutes.
That realization is transformative and has been on the cusp of coming to light since the very first episode. But the pain is inflicted in both directions, a bitter fact seen in fuller and fuller portrait as the series drifts back and forth in time, from the boys’ childhood, to their adolescence (when they’re played by Philip Ettinger, drooping his mouth just right), to their mournful, sorry adulthood. O’Donnell is especially strong; she’s a fine actor when deployed correctly, as she is here.
It’s a scene filled with hope and joy despite all the tragedy that has plagued this miniseries from the start. I hope some of you reading this will watch the series and find that profound thing, which I tried to but couldn’t.
tags: stories. Thomas deserved so much better from both his brother and his step-father during his lifetime. It’s even better that he does so in a way that isn’t completely out of character for him. I Know This Much is True
Below, CarterMatt has the official I Know This Much is True episode 6 synopsis with more information all about what’s coming: A lifetime of animosity between Dominick (Mark Ruffalo) and Ray (John Procaccino) spills over in public at an inopportune time. Visit our, I Know This Much is True episode 6: First finale spoilers, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The World Health Organization.
The rest of the cast does fine work as well, particularly the women—an irony, given how much of this story (which is to say, pretty much all of it) is centered on the bonding, hurting, and healing of men. Cianfrance zeroes in on that locality with a compassionate grace, never making a showy exaggeration out of its gray plainness, while taking the time in every episode for some lovely, picturesque establishing shots.
If, during the current plague, you haven’t had quite enough of medical horrors and the clenching feeling of being utterly stuck in place, you may want to seek out the new HBO mini-series I Know This Much Is True (May 10), based on the 1996 smash-hit, Oprah’s Book Club novel by Wally Lamb. It’s just tragic that Dominick has to lose his brother in order to see just how much he hurt him.
Thomas is schizophrenic and has been a constant concern and, yes, burden for his brother and their mother and step-father.
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