Story Movie
A typical American living room of a New England home. Its occupants have changed throughout the century. In the 1950s, a boy named Richard was born here. This room is where he spent his childhood and adolescence, where he graduates from high school, and where he brings his fiancée Margaret into the house. The young family is having children, all the happiest moments of their lives take place here, and here are the sad ones. The children get grandchildren, and Richard and Margaret begin to realize that their time is passing.
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Have you or perhaps do you think about what happened in different years in a particular significant building, on a particular busy street, in a particular apartment building that you see during your walks in your favorite city? Perhaps your imagination will take you so far away that you will feel the ground shaking under your feet, and imagine before your eyes the dinosaurs walking around before the fall of a hooligan asteroid. This often happens to us personally, and we are tempted to find somewhere in the wilds of the metropolis a DeLorean DMC-12 time wheelbarrow to, say, move to Almaty in the 80s or 60s. To look at least a little and understand why it was better before. To feel the rush of warm waves from earlier eras and even stay there as if we were Owen Wilson in the movie Midnight in Paris.
The prelude is complete. Robert Zemeckis thought about it too, remembered Richard McGuire's comic book, called up the old gang of Hanks, Wright, Burgess, Silvestri, Johnston and Roth to make an hour and a half movie about how time flies, it seems like you've just been born, but you blinked a couple times and it's already 75, your best friend is Alzheimer's. Yes, the clickbait headline “Back to the Future creator decides to screen a comic book” might have excited the public, but everything is down-to-earth: this is not something from Marvel or DC (not even Bubble), but a graphic novel on a serious subject. Knowing the director's passion for cinematic experimentation, the material was perfect to work with in order to give the audience an unprecedented experience that would leave an indelible imprint.
So, on the technical side, “Here” easily draws attention to itself, satisfies visual hunger and pleases the eye with interesting montage splices. Plus, it's quite unusual to watch a movie in which there is one fixed camera angle that doesn't change its position until the very end, except for the final five minutes. It's as if God decided to put up a hidden camera and watch what would happen at a particular spot on Earth for billions of millions of years. Either God has a lot of free time from doing nothing, or it is purely for scientific purposes, the third is not given. Thus the audience also watches the beginning of time, the natives, the colonizers, the 20th and 21st centuries. People grow old and die.
The idea, of course, is interesting on paper, but while watching the movie, the thought that the story is not really captivating did not leave my head. Alfred Hitchcock once said: a movie is life, from which the most boring scenes were cut out. Here you will watch just the life, from which Robert Zemeckis did not cut out anything. Well, he did cut something out, thank you that you didn't have to sit through 2.5 or 3 hours. You will be shown one living room of one house, where different families will live and where different historical events took place. Characters talk about everyday things, pressing problems, unattainable ideals. In addition to this, the scenes change quickly, there is a sense of theatricality, you will not understand why there were other families besides Hanks-Wright, Bettany-Reilly.
A kaleidoscope of different scenes with different content flashes before your eyes faster than ever. And it doesn't resonate with the heart. Yes, a separate family lives its life, it has enough problems, disputes, disappointments, joys, happy moments. It's not surprising. Why then to the script called the honored master Eric Roth, is not very clear. Exactly, to leave supposedly the most important episodes from the graphic novel, which would have touched the audience to the core, but even this did not work. All in all, the story doesn't impress, inspire or astound. But the movie is saved just mentioned earlier Robert Zemeckis's love for technical tricks, without them would be quite a disaster. For example, puzzle-like frames that foreshadow new scenes.
We should also note the artistic component in the form of costumes and sets. Carefully thought out mise-en-scene inspire confidence in the director in creating a beautiful “picture”. Few questions arise and to the power of CGI, thanks to which the main stars were rejuvenated. It looked much better than in “The Irishman”. Although when once Robin Wright came closer than usual to the static camera, one could remember the times of “Beowulf”. Alan Silvestri himself, looking at this magnificence, tried and gave out a touching musical theme for the movie, it is a pleasure to listen to. Beautiful and Paul Bettany in the background. It is all these pluses that prevented “Here” from being a complete failure. The wrapping is beautiful, but the filling raises questions and gives sourness, which makes your face crinkle.
But after this creation by Robert Zemeckis we realized that there would be nothing unusual and fabulous in the past epochs, where we would like to go with the help of a time wheelbarrow. Yes, generations may have thought differently in different decades and centuries, but the actions and decisions were essentially the same, and everything was boring and monotonous. That's not a bad or terrible thing, because really life can't consist of actually productive endeavors. It's as if Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg live their lives in such a way that they have centuries to spare. Neither face routine and ordinary conversations about ordinary things. Finally, both the graphic novel and the movie “Here” make it clear that time is a perfect illusion. After all, past, present, and future exist simultaneously.
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