His affirmation of the oneness of God and the ultimate oneness of God and the world has deepened in its paradoxical quality as he has taken more and more
realistic cognizance of the evil of the world, but it has not wavered or weakened.
The sweaty backwoods world of Blue Ruin is palpably
realistic, exploiting Saulnier's characters» unflinching fallibility and whose decisions are reflexive of an everyday
cognizance.