Carnage- the movie

Absolutely love Emirates for their superb in-flight entertainment. Saw some lovely movies this time but 'Carnage' was just right for the mood. Sharp and funny, it is a very engaging movie about a meeting between two sets of parents whose children have had a fight in the neighborhood park. In relation to the incident, the mothers of course  take themselves very seriously and want it all to be discussed in the most civilised manner but what ensues is a series of conflicts between parents, between spouses, between men, between women, between the men and the women and so on. The women appeared to be torn between who they want to be: good citizens of the world who care, and who they actually are: cold, manipulative and judgmental. Men of course behaved the way men do, trivialising everything in a very manly way. The whole inter-personal dynamics is hugely entertaining.


This Roman Polanski film is a brilliant commentary on modern life, how different people have chosen their own ways of leading it and how each of them is most critical of the others interpretation of it.