![]() ![]() She is a lone ranger with literally nobody by her side and so when the country blues of The Highwaymen plays, it makes sense to locate it within her hometown and general ethos while Linda Perry’s composition “Angels Are Falling”, built on a skeletal acoustic appeal, scripts a tale of seeking redemption and falling out of favour with the world on the film’s original soundtrack. ![]() Musical cues go along with her trajectory within this screenplay, from the sweet melancholy of Dolly Parton’s “Here I Am” accompanying the visual collage of photographs in the opening credits to a moment where Riseborough’s body language and looks expertly convey a lifetime of bad decisions and lack of support systems through Willie Nelson’s iconic “Are You Sure?” The importance of popular music in “To Leslie” She has hardly known the world beyond her Texas town or the bars she frequents as an escape where she lets the music overtake words of dejection levelled by fellow humans against her. She is who she is because half of the people around her are the same. Leslie embodies those on her sullen soul yet her innate innocence and hard-fought lifetime until her current middle age is portrayed with humbling, heartbreaking clarity. Hope is a thing to be brought on by almost no one or any discernible personality here. Modest lifestyles and broken bonds exacerbated by self-loathing and others’ judgements add to the downward spiral. Read between the gritty lines of poverty, alcoholism and one can see a trajectory of self-destruction amongst millions with no real home, educational guidance or professional means to fall back on. The closed circuit of small town limitations, never getting to outgrow one’s adolescence and carrying on with the burden of one’s unfulfilled dreams is at the heart of Michael Morris’ bracingly raw To Leslie starring an Oscar nominated Andrea Riseborough. ![]()
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