They definitely took me to places I hadn't seen before.
Woke too early at 6AM, saw this title/cover for a split second as part of a Movie Review vlog for another title and I was somehow drawn to it. Since it was 3-hours and I had someplace to be at 7AM, I found it on MAX and intended to only watch a couple of minutes to see if I'd like it. 35-minutes-later...I was almost late to my appointment.
I don't know what this movie had on me, but it gripped me with its realism. It felt genuine, interesting and compelling even in its everyday simplicity of a story of a famous couple's life. I was swept away in their lives.
A theatre actor/director suffers a major tragedy (well, two back-to-back) and he carries this on his shoulders into his next gig. It doesn't help he won't let people into his psyche, but when he meets his match, he might find a path to healing.
I sincerely doubt this will work for everyone and the argument could be made it was "boring" to some. Of course, I disagree, but if you're not enthralled into this world in the first act, you might want to save yourself the 3-hours.
And funny, I'm a huge advocate against 3-hour movies. I was just fascinated to see where this was going. I *wanted* to follow these characters to completion.
While the movie deals with calamity, it does speak to us on healing methods. Sometimes very directly speaks to us. I love how it's all methodically revealed and how you can live/grow right along the characters. Highly recommended.
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Final Thoughts: One of the aspects I found compelling was the constant shift in languages (which, honestly, I would've never caught had they not told me in the subtitles.) It went from Japanese to Korean to Mandarin to Tagalog to English to even sign language...sometimes in the very same scene. I thoroughly applaud the actors in seamlessly bouncing these languages off each other, not to mention the script for its originality.
Woke too early at 6AM, saw this title/cover for a split second as part of a Movie Review vlog for another title and I was somehow drawn to it. Since it was 3-hours and I had someplace to be at 7AM, I found it on MAX and intended to only watch a couple of minutes to see if I'd like it. 35-minutes-later...I was almost late to my appointment.
I don't know what this movie had on me, but it gripped me with its realism. It felt genuine, interesting and compelling even in its everyday simplicity of a story of a famous couple's life. I was swept away in their lives.
A theatre actor/director suffers a major tragedy (well, two back-to-back) and he carries this on his shoulders into his next gig. It doesn't help he won't let people into his psyche, but when he meets his match, he might find a path to healing.
I sincerely doubt this will work for everyone and the argument could be made it was "boring" to some. Of course, I disagree, but if you're not enthralled into this world in the first act, you might want to save yourself the 3-hours.
And funny, I'm a huge advocate against 3-hour movies. I was just fascinated to see where this was going. I *wanted* to follow these characters to completion.
While the movie deals with calamity, it does speak to us on healing methods. Sometimes very directly speaks to us. I love how it's all methodically revealed and how you can live/grow right along the characters. Highly recommended.
***
Final Thoughts: One of the aspects I found compelling was the constant shift in languages (which, honestly, I would've never caught had they not told me in the subtitles.) It went from Japanese to Korean to Mandarin to Tagalog to English to even sign language...sometimes in the very same scene. I thoroughly applaud the actors in seamlessly bouncing these languages off each other, not to mention the script for its originality.