amazing acting specially Jacob, great soundtracks, it's really a great movie
It is a flawed film - themes are touched upon but not always explored - but it's not the terrible movie that some critics perceived it to be. Xavier Dolan is incapable of making a bad movie, and this, his first in the English language, is an interesting one. It's well made, well acted, and well intentioned, and while it doesn't all come together, it does hold power on occasion.
Oof.
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan was a hot mess. Not terrible, but how do you go from "Mommy" to this? It feels incredibly cliche with certain music choices that feels stripped from Xavier Dolan’s playlist. I can tell Dolan wrote the movie, because there's a character in the movie that blush over Kit Harington good looks for no other reason.
The acting from everyone was at least good - Jacob Tremblay, Susan Sarandon and Kathy Bates being the stand outs, and the amazing looking cinematography made it visually pleasing.
The theme itself was interesting (being forced to stay in the closet because of the industry you work in) but the whole movie was... off. They made it to be more of an indivual thing (you choose to come out or not) instead of a bigger issue based on heteronormativity.
Kit Harington's acting was great, same for Jared Keeso who play his brother but everyone else seemed to just lack something. Big parts of the plot just didn't make a lot of sense and I got really bored to the point of sighing outloud which I usually never do in movie theaters (to be polite to the other viewers).
I did however really enjoy John's relationship with his brother.
Shout by Le_ChatBlockedParent2021-03-28T18:30:33Z
Great story and acting, I liked it very much.
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