Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is "slower" and "quieter" than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up and immediately start engaging with plot points. But Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people.


Review of Ballast (29 October 2008). - Reviews - Four star reviews

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Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is slower and quieter than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up ...

Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is slower and quieter than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up ...

Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is slower and quieter than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up ...

Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is slower and quieter than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up ...