'Sword of Trust' drops a shaggy-dog character study into American conspiracy-theory territory — see it for Marc Maron. Our review
given that there are two movies jockeying for position on the screen and you may be slightly frustrated by the one you end up getting. Cynthia and her longtime girlfriend, Mary , travel to Birmingham, Alabama, to settle a family affair. The former’s elderly grandfather has passed away; they think they’re getting his house. Instead, they find out that they’ve inherited a sword.
Then his assistant , a YouTube addict and flat-earther, discovers online that the weapon is a “prover item,” i.e. incontrovertible evidence that the South actually won the War of Northern Aggression. Some parties are willing to pay a small fortune for it. Mel, naturally, has a change of heart.
If you think that’s quite a premise for a satirical take about our dark national moment, when notions of “heritage” are being bastardized and the concept of reality is consistently under fire, you’d be correct. It isn’t what Shelton is interested in, however. She and her cowriter,vet Mike O’Brien, view this American-underbelly exotica as a background to the shaggy-dog shenanigans of the movie’s quirky misfit quartet.
Shelton, of course, has no responsibility to make a penetrating takedown on the rise of toxic “alternate” viewpoints in the public forum, regardless of whether she dabbles in what a character calls a “portal” to American deplorability. She only has a responsibility to make the movie she wants to make, slight or not. So instead we get off-the-cuff exchanges and a handful of oddly funny moments and the usual yeoman’s work from actors who clearly love to work with her.
As for Maron, the comedian keeps developing his chops the more he’s onscreen. His Mel feels like a cross between the cranky, neurotic persona he displays in his stand-up and his interview podcast WTF, and his weary but empathetic misanthrope from But he knows how to underplay pathos in the best possible way, and his monologue about watching an old girlfriend slide into a drug-fueled descent hits harder by being delivered softly.
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