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Sep 28, 2019 - 12:54 PM
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Last Child
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But!
But, despite quite captivating imagery, would you become disengaged from an unfolding (presumptively) "hard" sci-fi narrative if you had to sit through 2hrs of:
1. a non-sensical plot cobbled together from non-sensical plot turns and devices.
2. innumerable scientific inaccuracies which only exist to further said non-sensical plot.
3. having to listen to a repressed, middle-aged man's monotone self-reflection about how he turned into the father he never really knew and how it contributed to pushing his (of course, still devoted and sexually desirable) wife away from their marriage.
I dunno.....all I feel now is wanting to say "yes, yes, yes, I did it, I'm guilty!" Are you a lawyer, Spinmeister?
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Hey Spinmeister, we get it...
...you didn’t get it.
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Oct 16, 2019 - 2:00 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I finally managed to catch this last night, before it went off UK cinema screens for good.
I really enjoyed the first hour, despite it's heavy leanings towards GRAVITY (the opening sequence) and APOCALYPSE NOW meets INTERSTELLAR.
But the second hour!!! (SPOILERS!!!)
Well, it all begins to unravel somewhat and by the time of the quite ludicrous final act, all the good will the film has built up is blown apart, just like that nuclear explosion in space that sends Brad Pitt all the way back home (conveniently bypassing Mars and the Moon - AND food for that matter) to the arms of his (estranged?) love interest.
It's the most ridiculous final act I've seen in some time.
I almost wish they had been a bit more ambiguous and at the point when he's floating, lost in space*, and he sees that light, everything AFTER that - that we see - is the dead Brad Pitt reconciling his life/mistakes on his journey 'home'.
Technically, it's VERY good and I loved the sad, string piece by Max Richter, that was threaded throughout the film.
But otherwise, it was a massive missed opportunity for me, despite my enjoying many elements of it.
Maybe with some reflection, the 'deeper' human message will resonate some more with me.
Certainly the To The Stars/Max Richter theme helps that aspect of proceedings enormously.
*what does happen had me thinking, at one point, he was gonna surf through the rocks to Benson Arizona. I also half expected earth to be populated by apes, when he finally touched down.
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