Sidney Lumet is counted among the ‘great ones’, directors that have not only won awards but made movies that broaden the perspective as well as add to that art a special way of doing them: The “silver screen” as a mirror held up to life.
A Stranger Among Us is unexpected: It starts out as a thriller and action movie with car races and criminal chases all complete. Looking closely there is the close-knit community of considerate people as a nucleus inside the modern North American society that often seems lost in a sea of hard-boiled detectives and the effect of such a mindset on real life: Always “cool, calm and collected”, with enough cynicism to carry you through…
A woman as the female ‘cop’ and protagonist to unravel a mystery that eventually makes her find a new way to deal with life and love.