Film Review: The Good Nurse
The Good Nurse
Protozoa Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment
Netflix
Release dates
September 11, 2022 (TIFF)
October 19, 2022
October 26, 2022 (Netflix)
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Nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) finds out that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) has been poisoning their patients. She works with the police to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and why he is committing these horrific crimes.
Cullen killed over forty people over a fifteen-year period across several hospitals. The question is why is he doing it?
Overall, I liked The Good Nurse. Great performances by Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
Directed by
Tobias Lindholm
Screenplay by
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Based on
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber
Produced by
Scott Franklin, Darren Aronofsky and Michael A. Jackman
Starring
Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren
Eddie Redmayne as Charles Cullen
Nnamdi Asomugha as Danny Baldwin
Noah Emmerich as Tim Braun
Kim Dickens
Cinematography
Jody Lee Lipes
Edited by
Adam Nielsen
Music by
Biosphere
Tobias Lindholm discusses what he hopes audiences take away from this film?
"My hope is that the film will remind us of compassion as an option. Of our responsibility towards our fellow human beings. A reminder that we all contain deeply rooted and fundamental superpowers: charity and humanity."
Jessica Chastain discusses what she hopes audiences take away from the film?
"It would be great if an audience left the film with a new understanding of how to stop violence because we’ve been fed this idea that only violence ends violence, that you’ve got to fight fire with fire. What if someone could walk away from our film and go, Well what if I approached that kind of violence or energy with empathy and compassion? Is there a way to heal and stop the negative behavior in that way? I know there are a lot of cultures that approach negativity with love, and they understand that sinister, ugly, or violent things come from pain, so what if you reach out to that pain to end the cycle of violence? For me, if even one person leaves our film being inspired to meet that energy with something else — that’s very exciting to me."
Eddie Redmayne discusses what he hopes audiences take away from the film?
"There were things in it that I’ve found extraordinarily eye-opening, the first being that this was allowed to happen, and the second being an insight into what a nurse's life is like and how one of the reasons this was allowed to happen is because it's such a brutal, underpaid, under-respected, and understaffed job. When humanity and care collide with financial reward there is always going to be a conflict, and a complicated one. It’s a compelling insight into a system that's broken."
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