In 2020, French playwright Florian Zeller made his film directorial debut with The Father, a psychological chamber piece based on his play of the same name. Not only do I consider it the best movie of its year, particularly thanks to a career best Anthony Hopkins in the starring role, but one of the greatest film debuts ever made. Naturally, one would be justified for their excitement to see Zeller continue on, as I'm sure many of us were with The Son, the second in a trilogy of plays by Zeller. I was very eager to see this movie, which is why it's heartbreaking for me to say that I really didn't like it. But why exactly? For one, I felt very disappointed as I left the theater... and then as it processed, I became quite angry with it. The Son has some deeply rooted issues to unearth.
