Note: The writer of this review has followed Cherry on a digital screen from home. Before making the decision to see it – or any other film – in a cinema, please consider the health risks involved. There it is an interview with scientific experts.
Cherry it is a bombastic epic of suffering: the empty, super-IMAX-sized version of an “important” drama. At 140 minutes, it’s about that long Avengers film and just as subtle. This is not a random comparison or a coincidence. Its directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, are at hand End game. How do you watch the greatest movie of all time? If you’re these two, act like Tom Jane and pivot into a great addictive drama to prove you’re a serious artist. Yes, Cherry it’s the duo’s waste“A fake movie that might cross my mind, even if the filmmakers.” he had not cut your teeth by directing episodes of Development arrested, including one by one back to the joke. Chronicling two decades of anguish and misery in the life of a tortured young man, the film is as thirsty for prestige as its characters for something that can come out, shoot or snort. However, it was made with all the restraint and nuances you would expect – in the immortal words of Ron Howard – a rigid popcorn film formulated.
At the blockbuster service, the Russians are not stationary. Their superhero glasses have a weak trick, perfected over the years in the visual comedy of network sitcoms. But their approach is a blatant mismatch with CherryS gloomy source material. The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker, an army veteran who used drugs to cope with his trauma and bank robbery to pay for drugs. (He wrote the book behind bars.) Russos mainly treats his slightly fictionalized narrative as an opportunity to flex some unused stylistic muscles – to try all the tricks they couldn’t while adhering to the Marvel template: photos with dolly, jump cuts, extreme angles, unsaturated hiking sequences and exaggerated changes in the aspect ratio. At some point, they take a rectal exam from a rectal perspective. It can be the defining image of a film so far on its bottom.
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For a while, the two seem content to make lower scores. (This filming began in October 2019, just as Marty was making his controversial remarks about Marvel movies, almost making anyone wonder if the studio’s most trusted producers didn’t set out to prove it. that I can do what he does, easily.) Cherry it begins with one of those “How I Got Here” moments, as an outlaw (Tom Holland, also on Disney leave) returns to address the audience during a bank robbery. These pauses of the fourth wall will change with an ongoing voice commentary as the film returns a few years to its salad days of the nameless protagonist as a college kid in Ohio, whispering sweet things to campus mistress Emily (Ciara Bravo), ill-defined. the romantic center of his world. Those who wonder how Hello it could be played if it were told by the bag-obsessed teenager from American beauty now they have their answer.
Cherry has “and then this it happened ”dramatic form that often characterizes memories, but without any of the specifics of compromise. His screenplay, directed by Jessica Goldberg and the directors’ sister, Angela Russo-Otstot, preserves a Romanian domain, unfolding over six chapters, plus a prologue and an epilogue. But it plays rather as an adaptation of a summary of Wikipedia, scrutinizing entire paragraphs of incidents in the basic style of homes. Once Holland’s empty lover the boy fights the blues of parting by enlisting, the film continues in a simplified music video Full metal jacket, allowing the Russians to mount themselves through a basic preparation on the way to their addition to the canon of long-lasting combat sequences with entrails. (It is the faint atonement of military criticism for the time spent in the trenches of A franchise related to recruitment efforts?) Once back in Ohio, Walker’s screen surrogate falls into a wannabe Trainspotting, finding us on the heights and heights of “amazing life”, with Jack Reynor as a tiring dealer called, simply, Pills & Coke.
For the Netherlands, the youngest star of the MCU, this is a blow to the printing press. Slipping from both the spandex and Peter Parker’s innocence, he sweats and curses, jerks and pulls a gun and slips a needle into his arm. CherryIt’s almost as gloomy and heroic as last year’s change of pace for the actor, the whole mess of Southern Gothic The devil all the time. But he doesn’t have a real character to play here – the lack of a name is suitable for such a thin cipher, a guy who looks halfway there just before the heroine melts him. (He’s a zombie in and out of the wagon.) Bravo does worse in a role that becomes kind of ungrateful in every chapter, as Emily slips from an idealized dream girl to a loyal, relentless military wife. to a diabolical zonal who screams when I’m about to score. Extracted or not from Walker’s pages, the dialogue is not for anyone. “Basically, I was a hell sad and mad about the horrors he had seen” the self-diagnosis Holland. Reyna’s hand bag and less eloquently expresses it: “You’re a fucking asshole with PTSD”
This is a movie with nothing new to say about love, war, trauma, addiction, murder or America. He blows through these subjects on a hyper-stylization bender, indifferently transforming his true story into the form of other better films. By the end, the deceptions of greatness caught up with the showboating, especially during a high moment with slow movement and an outcome that only had to be temporarily watched to “On the Nature Of Daylight”. It leaves you wondering if you work with a $ 300 dollar your million-dollar budget is rotting brain or at least kill your ability to do something small or real remote ever. Either way, you would think of a mandate on some The most postmodern TV the comedies would at least give the Russo brothers a more pronounced self-awareness of the line that separates seriousness from mere pretensions to it. Community he could not parody this film better than he parodies himself.