“tick, tick…BOOM! is an unabashed overdose of life, love, music, and creativity. It doesn’t wear it’s heart on its sleeve so much as it decides that the sleeves would distract from the heart and tears them off with aplomb.
No, really – this film is singing full-throat at every moment.
Anything less would betray the person at the centre of the story, and the actor charged with the part seems to get that. Jonathan Larson was the soul who made…
"JOKER wants to paint its subject as a hero – as a man who the system failed and who pushed back against that failing system. The trouble is Joker doesn’t push back against the failing system – he shoves a stick of dynamite into the gears and lights the fuse. That’s not heroic: That’s anarchy and should not be celebrated..."
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"I’m in no way a hypochondriac. I wash my hands after using public transit, and might stay a step or two back from a sick co-worker – but by-and-large, I give my immune system a workout. That said, I find stories of epidemics like CONTAGION truly freaky. They leave you feeling like there’s nowhere to run…they use urban centres like the one I live in as a petri dish for the plot…and worst of all, they are completely possible..."
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"...Charles speaks with sweet sorrow about not being a better teacher, Logan wryly retorts that he wasn’t a good pupil. Their words are laced with both fondness, and regret. The expressions on their faces are a combination of “remember when” and “what if”.
This is where time has brought them; to a point where they aren’t heroes, but instead teacher and student…father and son. They are, at long last, human...."
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