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Sling Blade 1996 123movies

Sling Blade 1996 123movies

A simple man. A difficult choice.Aug. 30, 1996135 Min.
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Watch: Sling Blade 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, about 20 years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank, who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank’s house with his mother Linda, who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda’s abusive boyfriend, Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda’s homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl’s disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl’s relationship with Frank grows, he is watchful of Doyle’s cruel actions..
Plot: Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
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a modern American masterpiece
Set in a small, rural Southern town, Billy Bob Thornton’s “Sling Blade” is so flavorful in ambiance and tone, so rich in character and theme that it’s hard to believe that its roots are not to be found in any short story or novel. For while it has all the earmarks of a great work of literature, “Sling Blade” is actually an original creation by Thornton, the triple threat talent who wrote, directed and stars in the work.

Karl Childers is a marginally retarded man who’s been living in a mental institution ever since, as a child, he accidentally stumbled across his mother and her lover in a compromising position and, in a moment of considerable confusion, hacked the two of them to death. After being officially declared by the state to be “rehabilitated” and “cured,” Karl is thrust back out into the world where he forms a bond with a fatherless boy, his hardworking, compassionate mother and a gay storeowner who has long since become a part of their extended family. Also part of that family is the widow’s twisted boyfriend, Doyle Hargraves, who physically and psychologically abuses both mother and son.

Thanks to Carl’s “strangeness” and homicidal background, as well as the simmering volatility and mercurial temperament of Doyle, there is always the threat of violence hanging ominously over the work. Yet, in many ways, “Sling Blade” is really about the goodness of people in their willingness to overlook external differences and to find the similarities that unite us all in a common bond of humanity. For the most part, the people in this quiet little community try to reach out and befriend Karl, sensing a decency in him that helps to mitigate any possible fear they might have of him based solely on surface eccentricities. Even when he is eventually forced into violent action, he does so as an avenging angel bringing swift and righteous justice, not as a murderous demon acting out of hatred or malice.

The acting in the film – beginning with Thornton himself – could not be more brilliant. With his stooped shoulders, tight-lipped smile, jutting jaw, vacant expression and guttural throat-clearing, Karl became the butt of so many jokes back when the movie first came out that it’s easy to forget what a truly amazing character – and job of acting – Thornton has pulled off here. The actor we’ve known from so many other movies is completely invisible in this role, as he literally becomes Karl in every fiber of his being and, in so doing, forces us to see the wisdom and humanity buried deep inside the person. The performance is such a touchstone of acting for our generation that it is easy to miss all the other great acting in the film, particularly on the part of Natalie Canerday, Lucas Black, John Ritter, J.T. Walsh, Robert Duvall and, most especially, Dwight Yoakam, whose portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of a psychopathic meltdown is bone-chilling and brilliant.

As a writer, Thornton has shaped his film like a modern day parable – simple, symbol-laden and allegorical. As a director, he proves himself a master of rhythm and pacing, setting the mood and allowing the scenes to play themselves out without recourse to overstatement or melodrama. In fact, this is one of those rare movies in which every moment feels just right, so confident is Thornton in his ability as a filmmaker to bring his story to life on screen. He also knows how to make the bucolic setting come across as both stark and sensuous at the same time, a place of quiet stillness that provides the perfect backdrop for the morality tale he is endeavoring to tell. Finally, Daniel Lanois has provided a haunting musical score that ever so subtly draws us into the disturbingly offbeat world of the drama.

“Sling Blade” earned a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Thornton, but he should also have won awards for his directing and his performance as Karl, not to mention the film itself which should have won the honor as Best Picture of 1996 – although Hollywood, in its infinite wisdom, failed even to nominate it. Ah well, even with that lapse in judgment, “Sling Blade” remains one of the great movie dramas of the past decade.

Review By: Buddy-51
Tater thoughts—10/10.
First off, while trying to describe what is great about this movie, one need to look no further than the stand out performance given by Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers, a retarded man just released from a mental facility after having paid off his debt to society for a murder he committed as a boy. Certainly one could look beyond Thornton’s performance to find many outstanding performances (there isn’t a bad one in the bunch) by the supporting cast, but I think it’s important to highlight Billy Bob Thornton’s performance.

What is usually pointed out, or at least referred to at length in describing Thornton’s portrayal, centers around his extended jaw with his shovel wide grin, the slumped shoulders, and always, without fail, the gravelly “mmm, himh” voice. And while all of that is quite impressive, especially in that it did not require the use of masks or extended layers of make up to transform his appearance, what is impressive, and actually astonishing, is how Thornton can express outwardly through his body language and eye movements the complex inner workings that are central to the character of Karl Childers. It is in this way that Thornton’s portrayal succeeds and allows us to invest our belief into his character; you can see the mind of Karl Childer at work, even if all he’s thinking about is eating tater tots.

Reviewers have also pointed out that there’s a connection between the character of Karl Childers and that of Forrest Gump. Really? I don’t see it. I think if anything, the character of Karl Childers owes more to that of Chauncey Gardiner in ‘Being There’ than that of Forrest Gump, a lot more. Both Gardiner and Childers have a steady calm about them that in no way resembles the jumbled nervous ‘bumper sticker’ speak of Forrest Gump. The delivery from Childers and Gardiner is very slow and mannered and occasionally with a keen perception. With Gardiner, it’s manifested through double entendre or through a misunderstanding of intent, with Childers, especially when Childers is talking with the young boy Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black), his insights come from the heart, in a parental tone, however they seem to do the young boy as much good as they do for Childers. Just like the performance that Peter Sellers gave as Chauncey Gardiner in ‘Being There’, the performance from Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in ‘Sling Blade’ would garner an Oscar nomination, but no Oscar.

What should also be noted is the speed of the movie. This has everything to do with respect to the main character, Childers. If ever a movie captured the right speed in which to tell its story, it would be ‘Sling Blade’. This tactic allows the viewer to think about and to feel the emotional turns of the movie as its story unfolds. We can invest ourselves emotionally into the plot of the movie, even though we can, more or less, guess accurately at its outcome.

The notable supporting cast is led by the excellent performance of Dwight Yoakam as Doyle Hargraves, the violent and verbally abusive boyfriend to Linda Wheatley (Natalie Canerday). Doyle knowingly makes life a living hell for Linda and young Frank. The angst building inside of Frank comes to a climax after Doyle becomes drunk and abusive to Frank’s mother. Frank rifles beer can after beer can at Doyle, and although it stops Doyle’s initial attack, it only serves as a slight reprieve; the real ugliness is to follow.

Along with Yoakam and Lucas, the performances from John Ritter and J.T. Walsh stand out as very memorable. This is a movie that will stay with you long after it is finished. I don’t think it matters too much about how the ending takes place, or whether it is predictable or not. What resonates, or what matters, is in watching these characters develop and come to understand their situation, or their lot in life, and in most cases, learn to live with or without one another.

‘Sling Blade’ is easily one of the best movies of 1996.

10/10. Clark Richards

Review By: highclark

Other Information:

Original Title Sling Blade
Release Date 1996-08-30
Release Year 1996

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 15 min (135 min), 2 hr 28 min (148 min) (director’s cut) (USA)
Budget 1200000
Revenue 34100000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Billy Bob Thornton
Writer Billy Bob Thornton
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 15 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,689 m (Sweden), 3,768 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Sling Blade 1996 123movies
Sling Blade 1996 123movies
Original title Sling Blade
TMDb Rating 7.554 627 votes

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