The Good Nurse Movie Review: Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne energy a compellingly melancholic movie

In some ways, the title, The Good Nurse, is deceptive. For all the plain causes, it gives the look that one is in for an emotional medical drama a few good, diligent nurse serving to a terminally sick affected person discover hope. It is, nonetheless, something however. In reality, there’s barely a light-hearted second to supply aid from the desolate temper it wraps you in.

Director: Tobias Lindholm

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Streaming on: Netflix

In The Good Nurse, we navigate via the despondency of the Parkfield Memorial Hospital, New Jersey—the place the vast majority of the movie is about—together with Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). A nurse on the facility, she is identified with a deadly coronary heart situation and desires a coronary heart transplant to outlive, however with a purpose to develop into eligible for insurance coverage, she has to work for a couple of extra weeks, whilst her well being continues to deteriorate. But this isn’t what the movie is about. When a senior nurse named Charlie (Eddie Redmayne) is appointed, the scenario within the hospital will get extra mysterious.

Inspired by true occasions, the movie is predicated on the story of how Amy helped the police catch maintain of fellow nurse and serial killer Charlie. A big a part of the movie can also be tailored from American journalist Charles Graeber’s ebook, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder,

The movie, deftly complemented by Jody Lee Lipes’s muted, chilly frames, fantastically captures the disparity and ache that waft within the dimly lit corridors of this hospital. There is a way of unease that pervades this movie, regardless that the digicam refuses to sensationalise the struggling of sufferers. The discomfort it manages to inject via the temper does the job, whereas in a position performances from Chastain and Redmayne—each essaying roles which can be proper up their alley—as lone people dealing with large points of their private lives, do the remaining.

It is when the screenplay ventures into the thriller zone, by introducing two cardboard cutouts posing as detectives, that The Good Nurse falls flat, flinging you out of a painstakingly created environment. Thankfully, this does not final too lengthy.

This is maybe not the most effective movie to devour across the vacation season, however the finish provides some respite when it reminds you that regardless of your circumstances, hope stays afloat. That it is primarily based on a real story helps too.