Food for critics & other auteurs
"HappyThankU...etc" is a light and optimistic film about struggling New Yorkers in their early 20s. The reviews of this movie here, however, indicate this movie attracted a demanding film festival audience expecting something heavier that could thrill the pros. It's just not that deep or complex though.
Interesting that the script identifies some of the challenges it would get from critics and places retorts to them in the dialogues!
Maybe this lit a fire from critics; or maybe they wanted to blunt a rising ego from Radnor lol.
Zoe Kazan was good, but I would have dropped that to focus on the other two. The three stories intertwine but not require each other. The story of taking in a lost child could have gone in more interesting directions.
For instance, What were Josh Radnor's freinds saying about him? What happens when a guy who fancies himself a good guy go through when government agencies think otherwise, and he can't let go?--- Like parenting as a drug. Rooney Mara could have been more of a psychologist instead of a troubled person--- After all we don't see the troubles.
All the females claim they are magnetized to the wrong men; and these are the men, well-meaning, perhaps shuffled, who cause that belief.
Plotting opportunities were not taken in order to achieve the mood of young adults who have not found their place in NYC, finding some contentment. Josh Radnor, lead, writer & director, is still doing Ted Moseby of tv's HIMYM.
Interesting that the script identifies some of the challenges it would get from critics and places retorts to them in the dialogues!
Maybe this lit a fire from critics; or maybe they wanted to blunt a rising ego from Radnor lol.
Zoe Kazan was good, but I would have dropped that to focus on the other two. The three stories intertwine but not require each other. The story of taking in a lost child could have gone in more interesting directions.
For instance, What were Josh Radnor's freinds saying about him? What happens when a guy who fancies himself a good guy go through when government agencies think otherwise, and he can't let go?--- Like parenting as a drug. Rooney Mara could have been more of a psychologist instead of a troubled person--- After all we don't see the troubles.
All the females claim they are magnetized to the wrong men; and these are the men, well-meaning, perhaps shuffled, who cause that belief.
Plotting opportunities were not taken in order to achieve the mood of young adults who have not found their place in NYC, finding some contentment. Josh Radnor, lead, writer & director, is still doing Ted Moseby of tv's HIMYM.
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- 12 जुल॰ 2022