In 'Dark Waters,' A Conventional But Compelling Tale Of Corporate Comeuppance
In "the most conventional movie of [director Todd] Haynes' career," Mark Ruffalo plays a lawyer taking on DuPont. The film distills years of litigation into an urgent story.
The director of such films as Poison and Safe, Todd Haynes has a well-established interest in contagion. But in his films, illness has always been partly a metaphor, standing for the potentially asphyxiating nature of "normal" life.
That's not true of , the most conventional movie of Haynes' career. The threat here is as literal as, well, cancer.
