Miles Teller has built a career around characters who are rarely as straightforward as they first seem. From an obsessive jazz drummer to a troubled teenager, a reckless arms dealer and a determined fighter pilot, Teller often plays people driven by ambition, insecurity or the need to prove themselves. Early Career Born in Pennsylvania in 1987, Miles Teller studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his professional career with smaller roles before making an impression in the 2010 drama Rabbit Hole , appearing alongside Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. His early work quickly suggested that Teller was particularly comfortable playing flawed and complicated young men. That became even more apparent in The Spectacular Now (2013). As Sutter Keely, Teller played a charismatic teenager whose confidence hides a more troubled side. The performance established him as an actor who can make an imperfect character sympathetic without making him arti...
The Gorge initially seems to set up one kind of story, then suddenly becomes something very different. What begins as a slow exploration of isolation and the human need for connection eventually turns into a much more conventional science-fiction action story about genetic experimentation, military power, and the consequences of treating human beings as expendable. I actually found that division quite interesting because the two halves of the film are connected by one idea: what happens when we stop treating people as individuals? The Loneliness of the Gorge The first part of The Gorge is surprisingly focused on solitude. Two people are placed on opposite sides of an enormous gorge, with a very specific task: watch what comes out of it and make sure nothing gets through. There is no one else around them. No colleagues, no ordinary human interaction, and, most importantly, no real possibility of leaving. The people who send them there already know they won't come back alive....