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Already gasping for breath in its opening scenes, picture takes two bleak, unyielding hours to finally expire.
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Loaded with obtuse symbolism, the film is not only hard to understand, it isn't much fun trying to figure it out.
Set in North Florida and based on a book by Harry Crews, The Hawk Is Dying is a dreary study of male angst groaning beneath the weight of its own symbolism.
I won't pretend it makes for a happy night at the cinema, and it may require a leap of faith to succumb to Goldberger's spell. But I leapt, and found it enthralling up to the point where this legitimately weird movie capitulates to the most conventional catharsis. I'd rather watch Goldberger fail than a hundred others succeed.
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