keane be a low budget and independent film that provide a cinematic tour de force for both actor damien lewis and writer or director lodge h. kerrigan . william keane be a man who experience every parent bad nightmare when he lose his young daughter in a new york city bus terminal . wrack with guilt and overwhelm by grief and keane devotes his every waking moment to comb the area where she be last see and accost total stranger with desperate plea to help him locate the miss girl . keane be a highly unusual film in that and for the first half of it running time and it focus be entirely on this one character a he roam aimlessly around the city and mutter to himself in barely comprehensible fashion . at this point and there be no other character to speak of and just random passersby whose path cross with keane for brief and unsettling moment . virtually bereft of dialogue and the screenplay and in the film early stage at least and be almost entirely a stream of consciousness monologue of disconnected and disjointed comment and vividly reflect the chaos of keane deeply disturb mind . about halfway through the movie and however and we be introduce to lynn bedik ( beautifully portray by amy ryan ) and a down on her luck mother and whose young daughter and kira ( the astonishing abigail breslin ) and may hold the key to either keane redemption or damnation depend on the decision he make . for and when all be say and do and the film be really a study of a man ever spiral descent into paranoia and madness with barely a glimmer of hope that he might possibly be save in the end . lewis delivers an award worthy performance a keane and manage to create a compelling character out of a man who remain an inscrutable and often very creepy enigma throughout virtually the entire film . indeed and at time we begin to doubt if his daughter ever even exist in the first place and which only increase our curiosity and apprehension regard who keane really be and what his real problem might be and and just how much of a threat he pose to himself and those around him . intensify the challenge for the actor and kerrigan force lewis to endure a mercilessly intrusive hand hold camera which follow him around relentlessly and rarely pull back more than a few inch from the actor face . in a perfect blending of form and content and the movie plunge u into the chaotic world of keane trouble psyche and make u both a voyeur of and a participant in the nightmare he be go through . keane be a success on many level and but the film be lewis all the way .