Film Review – Trash

It’s difficult to avoid making comparisons between “Trash” and Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 breakthrough feature, “City of God.” They both examine the hardscrabble life for young people existing inside Rio’s impoverished areas, but “Trash” doesn’t share the same grit and awareness of the landscape. It’s the latest from director Stephen Daldry, who stepped on a career landmine with 2011’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” His new effort isn’t a return to form for the helmer of “The Hours” and “Billy Elliot,” but it certainly revives his interest in more natural human behavior. Filled with chases and characters, the picture creates a whirlwind of events, but it only rarely achieves authority, as Daldry has trouble balancing the endeavor’s restless cinematic interests and its sticky cultural pleas. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com