Living (2022) Review

When a man who had just been going through the motions within his life finds out that he is dying, he will eventually try and feel alive again!

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*LFF 2022 Preview Screening*

Living is a rather powerful force of a film which is quite the slow burner to begin with in painting the picture of not only how Williams acted, but how the people closest to him actually perceived him. It did not seem as though he was really that bothered by what others thought and pretty much went to work and then back home. With his son and daughter in law living in his house with him and quite frankly they were not nice people at all!

When Williams receives the devastating news that he only has months left to live he does attempt to tell his son, but when trying the son is quite frankly not even interested in talking to him. I found this really infuriating, although not as much as his wife being a total bitch constantly and you really just hope that eventually she will feel extremely guilty! Young Margaret Harris ends up as an unlikely friend during the final months of his life and it really was innocent and nothing creepy about it. Although it is touched upon how it looks from the outside. That certainly shows just how people interfere in things that they know absolutely nothing at all about.

The main messages I took from the film was that you are the only person that can ensure you feel live your alive and living. Don’t rely on other people to provide you with that feeling or you will quite frankly end up disappointed. I guess another thing it really hits home about it is that you never really know who will support you when you really need it either.

Bill Nighy gives a truly incredible and possible career best performance in this film and in all honesty he was the reason I wanted to see this one. He has been one of my favourite actors for many years and I have even seen him on stage, he is a terrific actor and I really feel that this role will allow more people to fully realise just how good he is! Aimee Lou Wood also deserves a lot of credit as she is very good opposite Nighy and another joy to watch. Alex Sharp has some good scenes and moments as well.

This won’t be a film that will be talked about a lot which is a shame, but I fully understand it will have a very select audience and quite frankly I am more than pleased to have been able to witness this performance from Nighy on the big screen!