The Beaver Part One: Review

This is going to be a 2 part review due to the content of the film is something that hits a chord inside me. This will be the usual funny(if you call it that) review(if you call it that too) while the second part will be a little more, well personal/serious.
To be honest, I only wanted to see this movie because Jennifer Lawrence was in it, because ever since Hunger Games, I've become somewhat of a fanboy for her. When I saw the trailer for this, I, like many people laughed at the idea of this film and especially given that it had Mel Gibson in the starring role as a depressed husband who finds his ray of light in a beaver puppet. This is the movies weakest point, ironically. I think playing up this aspect of the film ruined it's chances of being taken seriously by anyone, when there is so much more to the film besides it. The main theme of the film is depression, how we deal with it and what it costs us in return. Almost everyone suffers here, be it Gibson, his wife(played by Jodie Starling, uhh I mean Foster), son (played by Anton Yelchin, who I am jealous of simply because he has gotten to make out with both Kat Dennings and Jennifer Lawrence, though not in the same film) and Jennifer Lawrence's character, who lost her spark when her brother died some time ago. The ways of dealing with the depression in this are different for each character, be it throwing people out, banging your head against the wall, sleeping the day away or simply ignoring the underlining factor. It may be a bit weak in some mines that everything is just cured at the end, and that how he ends up getting rid of his problems way bit a bit extreme, but for the most part, the movie handles itself quite well.
Overall, The Beaver may be just another movie for you. It may be a joke to even consider watching something like this. Well, believe me, I thought the same and I was wrong. Maybe you will be too. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Rating: 4.5/5