I never intended to watch this film but ended up being part of a school trip to one of the screenings of the film.
I was pleasantly surprised by it, it is very much a theatre-kid musical/film but they did it well. They made sure their casting was diverse and more equal, and even if it was not perfect, these type of production got so much better at it since Glee.
I really enjoyed how many references there was to…
I watched this film not having seen the previous ones.
An old fashioned romcom tale trying to modernise itself to keep in the loop. They successfully avoided the love-triangle cliché but to the detriment of their narrative pace and the cast is slightly more diverse (very slightly but enough not to lose their white liberal audience). Grief is surprisingly well represented despite the unnecessary religious undertones.
Not to worry, the hallmarks of the conservative romcom are still there and the…
A sort of absurd tale about the passage of time and the vain obsession of youth.
The stereotypical representation of gendered obsession with youth (“women want to look beautiful and be models, and men want to have have mechanical sex with many women they barely consider”) is very lazy, especially for a film portraying itself as somewhat philosophical.
Women in general are represented in an incredibly sexist way as they are either obsessed with becoming younger or a braindead hottie…
The story of a man who can stop time, but also has trauma and political intrigues to overcome. His dream and aim is to construct an organic city mimicking nature. He then learns to leave space for future generations to take over.
If you watch it as a comedy you might enjoy it - it is full of silly ideas/moments, and the only lesson one can really draw from it is that the conversations held at jetset rooftop parties does…
