Good movie, visually its absolutely masterful. The colour, the framing, the camera movement, the visual storytelling and character development; it’s incredible. The music and songs are very well composed and performed, I like that they maintained the imperfections of the actors. It does have that over the top, corny vibe you’d expect out of a musical, which is my biggest complaint and probably a selling point for others. Nevertheless, it also maintains a real sense of melancholy. The story sets itself up as a predictable love story, which is a formula it mostly sticks to for the first two acts, but then it drums up a really interesting ending that comments intelligently on artistic ambition and selling out. So it’s not just feel-good fluff, this is a lot more ambitious. The acting and dialogue are very good, but occasionally there are scenes where it feels a little too exaggerated. For example, I don’t buy how this movie portrays casting directors, even when keeping the whimsical, heightened tone of the movie in mind it feels disingenuous to me. All in all, this is about as tasteful as you could possibly make a movie like this. It’s not entirely my thing (I’m more of a Whiplash person), but it’s still a really good watch.
Review by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2023-06-07T20:02:07Z
Good movie, visually its absolutely masterful. The colour, the framing, the camera movement, the visual storytelling and character development; it’s incredible. The music and songs are very well composed and performed, I like that they maintained the imperfections of the actors. It does have that over the top, corny vibe you’d expect out of a musical, which is my biggest complaint and probably a selling point for others. Nevertheless, it also maintains a real sense of melancholy. The story sets itself up as a predictable love story, which is a formula it mostly sticks to for the first two acts, but then it drums up a really interesting ending that comments intelligently on artistic ambition and selling out. So it’s not just feel-good fluff, this is a lot more ambitious. The acting and dialogue are very good, but occasionally there are scenes where it feels a little too exaggerated. For example, I don’t buy how this movie portrays casting directors, even when keeping the whimsical, heightened tone of the movie in mind it feels disingenuous to me. All in all, this is about as tasteful as you could possibly make a movie like this. It’s not entirely my thing (I’m more of a Whiplash person), but it’s still a really good watch.
7/10