oliveira-7
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The real-life development of a best-seller book that dared to say that race is not the primary issue is a great commitment for a movie. And I cannot express but thankfulness for this one to have been made.
The protagonist's journey is interesting, because her business is with words, yet she just has that gut feeling that is completely frustrating when it comes to express it in words. That's why the movie takes so long to gain momentum, and that's tremendously right and highly courageous. Finally she finds a path that leads to an opus that is, in the eyes of North America, highly revealing. It was published amid the 'Black Lives Matter' turmoil and, to a certain sense luckily so, not only for the formidable sales, but for helping people understand that 'Black' is marginally the issue: 'Outcast' is the central issue.
Some of the scenes are overwhelming, I choose to mention the sofa scene and the pool scene. Magnificent.
But I wish that the director/writer would have covered, for the good of the American audiences, the 'Native American' part of the issue. Even if Wilkerson didn't, the movie had the chance of doing it, and the fact that it did not is very telling. It could have been much greater than it ended up being. What a pity.
The protagonist's journey is interesting, because her business is with words, yet she just has that gut feeling that is completely frustrating when it comes to express it in words. That's why the movie takes so long to gain momentum, and that's tremendously right and highly courageous. Finally she finds a path that leads to an opus that is, in the eyes of North America, highly revealing. It was published amid the 'Black Lives Matter' turmoil and, to a certain sense luckily so, not only for the formidable sales, but for helping people understand that 'Black' is marginally the issue: 'Outcast' is the central issue.
Some of the scenes are overwhelming, I choose to mention the sofa scene and the pool scene. Magnificent.
But I wish that the director/writer would have covered, for the good of the American audiences, the 'Native American' part of the issue. Even if Wilkerson didn't, the movie had the chance of doing it, and the fact that it did not is very telling. It could have been much greater than it ended up being. What a pity.
The first impression was of weirdness, slightly off-putting. The many twists in the plot are incredible and at the same time amusing and thought-provoking. A bold screenplay, a tight production, great artistry throughout. The troubled, helpless and hopeless main character hardly could find anyone better than Amalric to play it.
I liked the time travel especially, so well imagined and so revealing on some of the characters' backgrounds, on the (sad) destiny of the building, and on life in the longer run.
And, of all people, the main character goes off his way to save a goldfish. This will have paramount consequences. Remember: you'll never know when and how life challenges you.
I liked the time travel especially, so well imagined and so revealing on some of the characters' backgrounds, on the (sad) destiny of the building, and on life in the longer run.
And, of all people, the main character goes off his way to save a goldfish. This will have paramount consequences. Remember: you'll never know when and how life challenges you.
Perhaps the best thing about this film is that it will convince many people that it is really necessary to keep those 50 or even 100 meters without trees around the houses. And even then... the example given here of the ingenious care taken by the owner of that house literally going up in smoke was interesting: you're never safe from the recklessness of your neighbors.
The story of a family of 3+1 who survived a forest fire provides the pretext for a production in which we are placed inside the burning forest, in a terrifyingly realistic reconstruction of the scenario that someone in those circumstances has to face - with virtually no chance of survival. Great value is placed on unity, as each element of these three will contribute in its own way to an improbable outcome.
The production (pyrotechnics and everything else) is stupendous, the actors very convincing and the filming impeccable. But there are a few problems, namely the script, which is too formulaic and predictable, and with inconsistencies: there's the manslaughter of two old people, with no culpability and (almost) no remorse, and there's the final shock of seeing those trees, so green, on the shores of Lake Chilton...
The story of a family of 3+1 who survived a forest fire provides the pretext for a production in which we are placed inside the burning forest, in a terrifyingly realistic reconstruction of the scenario that someone in those circumstances has to face - with virtually no chance of survival. Great value is placed on unity, as each element of these three will contribute in its own way to an improbable outcome.
The production (pyrotechnics and everything else) is stupendous, the actors very convincing and the filming impeccable. But there are a few problems, namely the script, which is too formulaic and predictable, and with inconsistencies: there's the manslaughter of two old people, with no culpability and (almost) no remorse, and there's the final shock of seeing those trees, so green, on the shores of Lake Chilton...