Take Shelter (2011)

Take Shelter (R) - Review

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you - Heller, Catch 22"

A family man (Michael Shannon), beset by visions of an impending disaster, begins to excavate a storm shelter in his backyard much to the detriment of his friendships, work relations and homelife.   Shannon is fantastic as the father with a family history of paranoid schizophrenia, seeing thing others don't and trying to keep up appearances as his dreams get more vivid and his wife Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) gets more skeptical.  Compulsively building and digging in an attempt to protect his loved ones, Shannon is walking the razor between preparedness and obsession, a void that Take Shelter gleefully teeters on the brink of, the revelation of the over-protective parent in the insane America post 9-11.

8 Murder of Crows out of 10 (GREAT)