The first of two Philip Roth novels turned into a movie this Summer/Fall, Indignation is the smaller release, with the two fairly unknown actors cast in the leads: Sarah Gadon as Olivia, a mentally unstable and sexual promiscuous suicide survivor, and Logan Lerman as Marcus, an atheist (formerly Jewish), first-generation college student. Marcus, in seeking to escape his over-bearing father, leaves New Jersey and attends college in Ohio. There, he almost willfully refuses to identify with any sort of group mentality, abjectly refusing to follow a religion, join a fraternity, or really associate with anyone.
He does eventually fall for Olivia, and after her sexual experience challenges his notions of propriety and confuses his feeling for her, a series of poorly made choices leads to his expulsion and eventual drafting into the Army to be shipped off to Korea.
It was a slow movie examining the far reaching consequences of snap judgments, and there isn't a happy ending. But, if you like Philip Roth novels, you'll like this mostly-faithful adaptation.
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