It stars Melanie Lynskey as a frustrated suburbanite who hires her creep of a neighbor (Elijah Wood) to help her hunt for vigilante justice after her home is burgled. (theatlantic.com)
Blacks have long been the victims of vigilante justice in America. (michaelbenjamin2012.com)
Blair's premise is simple — Ruth (Melanie Lynskey, cast to perfection), a quiet loner, comes home to find her house robbed, and when the police won't help, she seeks vigilante justice with equally socially inept neighbor, Tony (Elijah Wood)-- but his ever - increasingly sprawling plot is fueled by a myopic moral perspective rendered in black and white. (pastemagazine.com)