yjudith I really wanted to like this movie. It started out good and then...it missed the mark for me. The story was a good one; I said that throughout the entire movie even as I complained about the movie. The acting to me was mediocre. The best performance to me was of the mom, Linda Emond. This is a Jewish boy going off to college. He's leaving his over-bearing parents, frightened by everything because they were raised in the Holocaust era (I know what that looks like being Jewish myself). They worry about everything. He's avoiding the war by going to college and throws it away for...well, for nothing. He gets to college and then we find out he's an atheist. He gets a blow job from some girl he is obsessed with then struggles with his feeling for her because she gave him head and won't talk to her because of it. Then he stalks her. None of this goes together. His dean is an ass and so are his roommates, whom he gets into an argument with and requests a room change. My review is all over the place because so was this movie. Marcus doesn't want to be with Olivia but he stalks her. They are having a what I saw as a real lovely relationship; they both seem to struggle in a world that wants to categorize them where they really don't fit. All is well until his mom comes to visit, complaining about his father's behavior, tells Marcus she hates his father and has already obtained a divorce attorney...then she meets Olivia. The next day the mom tells Marcus she is staying with dad, on one condition...he is never to see Olivia again. He weakly tries to explain that the relationship isn't as serious as she thinks...poor Olivia, again...but relents and agrees to never see her again. I knew that Olivia was going to lose it, I think we all did. I just found it so sad that it was tied to Marcus leaving her and angered me so much because throughout the movie Marcus is seen as someone very much doing his own thing. He refuses to reform and then totally reforms. The last minutes of the movie are a little confusing to me. I mean surely the dean of the college doesn't think Olivia got pregnant by giving Marcus a hand job, but there he is insisting that Marcus very well could be the father. Instead of just saying "hey look Sir she gave me a hand job, I didn't get her pregnant" which i know in the 50s is not easy to do to authority, but he loses it and uses the "f word", leading to the dean checking into Marcus's church attendance and gets expelled for hiring someone else to have his attendance card signed. And he is drafted to the Korean war and I guess dies...even though someone told me in the book he doesn't. A major disappointment

adonis98-743-186503 In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War. Indignation stars Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon and it's based on a Novel by Philip Roth, the movie combines some humor alongside drama and it does it in a way that it's simply not that well executed, the acting from the main leads is simple uninteresting and you would expect something since you have 2 very talented people unfortunately the end result is a mediocre film with a plot that has been recycled many times before. I'll give Indignation an 4/10

Ironically Unimpressed Just as I shouldn't upvote films based on their set-pieces (*coughManchesterByTheSea*cough*), I shouldn't penalise efforts on account of their few weak spots, no matter how grandiose they might be.In this case, I'm talking about the insufferable blandness of certain scenes and the performing injustice done to the character I considered to be the most intriguing of the five big ones - Olivia. I can only theorise about the mysteries surrounding her person and it's a dear shame that the otherwise lovely Sara Gadon didn't quite manage to rise up to her muse's height.Overall, Indignation may be suffering a mild case of technical malfunctions and a somewhat inflated sense of pretentious entitlement, however, it benefits tremendously from exceptional writing, memorable performances (seriously, Linda Emond, my heart!) and a unique, tailor-fashioned application of a story-telling craft rather difficult to master -- giving the viewer more detail by simply nudging our attention towards the things chosen to be left unsaid.Severely under-watched. For the genre-inclined, I would strongly suggest taking this for a spin.

Red_Identity I had no idea what the actual premise for this film was, but I did think it would be a period melodrama that could also prove to be overly sentimental and a little sappy. However, it really surprised me in what it actually turned out to be. It's a coming-of-age take that is different from most that we get. It's very dialogue-driven and that dialogue is just a joy to listen to. The film takes a deep look into the characters' psychologies and doesn't resort to the usual dramatics that films of this type usually do. Logan Lerman is an incredibly talented actor and he once again shows his skill here. A mature and very detailed performance.