After the Hunt’ leaves many questions unanswered, as the story revolves around a #MeToo event, and star Julia Roberts intends to keep it that way for the audience.
Film’s Theme and Focus
The film’s logline sets the premise: “A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student makes a serious accusation against a colleague, a situation that threatens to expose a dark secret from the professor’s own past.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy-winning actress stated that the movie is less about scandal and more about forgiveness.
- The Theme of Forgiveness: Roberts highlighted that this theme is reflected in a film’s song, which she has listened to “seven times.”
- Julia Roberts’ Quote: The Notting Hill star noted: “There’s a song that plays in this film seven times … and it’s a song about forgiveness.”
- She elaborated on the director’s vision: “And I think it says so much about these relationships and how [Director] Luca asked us to approach them and construct them and what he asked of us as artists to find and articulate in the characters we were portraying.”
Love, Forgiveness, and Human Nature
Julia concluded by emphasizing the core human element of the story: “I think that he always felt that this beautiful story that [screenwriter] Nora [Garrett] wrote us was about love and forgiveness and trying to understand who we really are deep inside of ourselves and why we posture and do the things that we do.”
‘After the Hunt’ is set to hit cinemas on October 10.
