Review of The Beaver

The Beaver is a great and obvious metaphor that unfortunately it sustains even when its argument proves untenable, especially in its 1st act. The narrative begins with the routine of the central character in tatters in an irreversible situation, but behold the beaver's figure is eventually likely to be accepted. The conflicts that would be natural are temporarily ignored and become valid from the middle, resulting in greater or lesser extent in other family members. Still here the director Jodie Foster, manages to extract sensitivity in sentimentality without falling completely, although the dramatic trajectory of the character is more than predictable but Mel Gibson commands it fairly good, even when the script doesn’t do to deserve such an effort. A drama that tries to establish a series of conflicts from an unusual premise, but the end results ending up worthy.