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Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck (2017)

October. 20,2017
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6.2
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PG
| Drama

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

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VeteranLight
2017/10/20

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Claysaba
2017/10/21

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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Kailansorac
2017/10/22

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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filippaberry84
2017/10/23

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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battlecrusadersgames
2017/10/24

I found this a little slow and confusing. The whole movie revolves around the connection between the 2 storylines, but it is both predictable and tenuous. The music is also very distracting, which is especially noticeable in the silent parts of the movie. Thank god Oakes Fegley is both watchable and a great little actor and carries the movie. Also i have to give credit for the director to try something a little bit different. Overall the movie was watchable but not one i will be buying on dvd

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daoldiges
2017/10/25

In general I like Todd Haynes work but like many of his previous projects I found Wonderstruck to be much stronger visually than was my emotional connection with the story and it's characters. Unfortunately for me this gap was far greater than it was for say, Far From Heaven. I really appreciate the subject matter and focusing on childhood, growing up, memories, and looking back, but at the end I didn't take much away from the film and don't suspect it will stay with me for very long.

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alvesmarceloalves-73751
2017/10/26

A cute fairytale about a child in search of the father and who ends up seeing his story is in some way magically with that of another person who lived something similar 40 years earlier. It's a cute movie.

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secondtake
2017/10/27

Wonderstruck (2017) An interesting film for any film buff or historian, partly for how badly it conjurs up the style and format of 1927 cinema. The story has sentimental strengths and a pair of characters (and actors) who create a certain amount of empathy, but even here the progress is as plodding as it is pretty. I've come to think that Todd Haynes is a bit of a hack as a director, riding mostly a willingness to take on projects that are dripping with emotional pitfalls. His most famous film is "Far from Heaven," also starring Julianne Moore, and it combined best a combination of visual richness and personal angst. In that case there was the advantage of a theme of being a closeted gay man in a 1950s America that resonates with so many, one way or another, along with powerful issues of race. Here there are children to relate to: a girl who is deaf in 1927 and a boy who is an orphan in 1977. Brian Selznick (yes, a relative of the famous David O.) wrote the book, and it's set in 1977 because the famous New York City blackout is at the climax. For some reason Haynes has created a world that is gorgeously 1970 or 1972 instead (though it's labelled 1977 by necessity). The colors, the cars, the clothes, the hair, every detail is deliciously wrong. (I'm old enough to know, plus just check out the cars.) And his sense of the neighborhoods on the west side of Central Park is wrong, too. It's all really beautiful, but why? Why? Back to 1927, the year of the first sound picture, we have the deaf girl enjoying silent films-but these are projected on the screen in her theater as widescreen (not the standard 4:3 Academy format)! I know, who cares, right? Well, why the heck not get it right? Haynes mentions in interviews that he watched some old movies to get the feel for them right, which is a confession of incompetance. His own filming of 1927 and the girl's path through the city is naturally any format he chooses and it's very nicely photographed. In fact, the star of the movie is not the strained and obvious story, dragged out for two hours, and it's certainly not the director, but it's the cinematographer, Edward Lachman, who also shot "Far from Heaven" and several other notable films with styles drawing heavily from the past but still keeping a contemporary edge. I was able to watch this entire film partly because it looks so good. I think Haynes has a good technical crew in general, and the movie benefits. Haynes has also mentioned that he wanted this to be a film that children could watch, and he might be right in the sense that it's gentle and absorbing, without violence or adult material. I liked that. But I think a kid would as bored as any adult, and more willing to skip to the end, which is a contrived tearjerking inevitability, ponderous and thick.

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