REVIEW: 'Causeway' starts off a drama about Jennifer Lawrence's wounded vet adjusting to life after wartime — then Brian Tyree Henry enters the picture, and everything shifts into an entirely different gear. Cast these two actors in everything from now on.
Lawrence’s character, Lynsey, is introduced to us courtesy of a close-up shot of the back of her head. An older woman , just out of focus, is talking to a soldier, negotiating some sort of terms of release. When this handler moves to help her ward towards her car, we see that Lynsey is in a wheelchair. She’s a U.S. Army veteran, just released from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. An I.E.D. and an ambush left several of her companions dead, and Linsey with a brain injury.
A loose series of sequences of Lynsey relearning how to function, regaining her co-ordination , talking to physicians and counselors, idly cleaning pools and randomly bursting into tears drops viewers into her affliction, butisn’t interested in minutely detailing a cause-and-effect relationship between What Happened and What Lies Ahead. It’s strictly a present-tense movie; we’re simply riding shotgun with this young woman, as she deals with whatever the day brings her.
Then Lynsey asks when she can “go back to work.” She is a soldier, and the sooner she can be re-deployed, the sooner life goes on.It won’t surprise anyone to discover, should you not recognize Neugebauer’s name, that she’s got a long history in the theater , and that so much ofhas the feel of watching an off-Broadway play.
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