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As Paul Thompson in the surprising and moving Against the Current,
Joseph Fiennes has the deep, burned out eyes of a man who no longer
cares for life and yearns for his misery to end. Yet he still has a
dream: to swim the length (150 miles) of the Lower Hudson River. He
also has another goal when he completes the first one: to make a
decision whether or not to kill himself.
It’s not easy to pull off a film about a thirty-something, handsome
man like Paul who is still wallowing in excruciating despair five years
after the tragic death of his wife and child. Director Peter Callahan
wisely lightened up the film’s mood by choosing to send a couple of
fun, cool friends along with the bummed-out widower for the big swim:
Jeff (Justin Kirk) and Liz (Elizabeth Reaser). Their
job, along with providing emotional support, is to drive a boat
alongside Paul as he swims. Paul climbs aboard for rest periods after
pushing himself to meet daily mileage goals.
Philosophically, the film asks the questions: do some people get
more pain than they can bear? Is there a point at which a person knows
the struggle to overcome is fruitless? Played powerfully and nobly by
Fiennes, Paul needs to swim the river to prove he tried to swim through
the tears of his grief. After that, he will know in his heart what he
must do.
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