Matthew Nichenko
The Soloist Film Critique
Soloist, released in early 2009, is one of the most heartfelt movies of the year. Based on the true life of Nathaniel Ayers, a once upon a time musician prodigy who is now homeless playing on broken instruments. I thought that Robert Downing Jr. and Jamie Fox were the perfect actors the play the roles in this movie, although Jamie Fox’s performance blew my mind away. I have never seen Fox act with such meaning, intensity, and emotion that I become lost in his character and felt such emotion for his character on the screen.
The movie went as far as to show the real life of people on the streets in Los Angeles as it took you into the homeless shelters and streets in the poorest of poor parts of the city. This helped to bring even more intensity to the movie. Some might say the speed of this movie was too slow or mellow but that is just what it takes in order for the movie to get its full effect out. If the movie was an action movie or a poorly directed movie then it would have failed miserably in my eyes. Jamie Fox should win numerous awards for his role as Nathaniel in this movie and if he doesn’t then there is something seriously wrong in society today.
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