And in a way, I’ve been there. I accidentally hit a dog nine years ago in Spain. The boys and I were driving south on a dirt road in the dark, and a cat and a dog ran in front of us. I slowed down but didn’t quite stop, and the dog ran off, obviously in pain and crying. It was awful. It would be 50 times worse to hit a young boy, of course, but slamming any living thing is horrible. I’ll never forget that moment.
Posted by TheWrap‘s Steve Pond on 9.11.21: “A dark and dirty morality play where nobody’s very concerned with morals, John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven takes some extremely questionable behavior and makes it as intriguing as it is off-putting. There’s a lot of despicable stuff going on in this efficiently nasty drama from the Irish writer-director of The Guard and Cavalry, but in the hands of McDonagh, Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, you may actually find yourself caring for these people more than they care for themselves.”