{"id":29916,"date":"2024-10-31T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=29916"},"modified":"2024-10-31T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T08:56:08","slug":"here-jumps-around-too-much-but-has-a-few-admirable-qualities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=29916","title":{"rendered":"HERE Jumps Around Too Much, But Has A Few Admirable Qualities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Running Time: 104 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This film from Sony Pictures will be released exclusively\nat theaters on November 1st<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One has to give credit where credit is due. Director Robert\nZemekis isn\u2019t afraid to experiment and try to tell stories in new ways. While\nhe began his career with big Hollywood hits like Romancing the Stone<\/em> and\nBack to the Future<\/em>, he\u2019s consistently been attempting to incorporate new\nstorytelling techniques. Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/em> was an early example of\na movie mixing live action with animation, while Cast Away<\/em> featured a\nlone man sharing his innermost thoughts with an inanimate object. Later, the\nfilmmaker became one of the first to utilize motion capture digital animation\nin The Polar Express<\/em>, and tried his best in The Walk<\/em> to use 3D to\nmaximum effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here<\/em> is his latest effort, which is also told in a\nunique manner\u2026 a stationary camera on a plot of land, telling the story of one\nsingle space and all life in it since the time of dinosaurs. Admittedly, the\nbulk of the movie is set in a living room, revolving around Richard Young (Tom\nHanks), his wife Margaret (Robin Wright), as well as his father Al (Paul\nBettany) and mother Rose (Kelly Reilly). But the film constantly jumps through\nother time periods, showing people who have resided on or near the very same site.\nViewers see bits and pieces of their lives through until the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an intriguing premise, but the end result is a bit\nof a mixed bag. There are several scenes that are very relatable, even when\nthey\u2019re quite simply designed. Bits featuring a new father and mother playing\nand interacting with children are both funny and tug at the heartstrings. Hanks\nis, of course, incredibly skilled at portraying the everyman and does so here\nexpertly. The de-aging work on the faces may not be perfectly seamless, but\nalso isn\u2019t a distraction, marking another advancement in technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few observations made by the characters are amusing and I\nalso appreciated the bittersweet tone of the picture. There is emotional\nresonance in seeing the characters age, as well as feel pangs of regret over\nthe way life has turned out. The idea that most individuals ultimately leave\ntheir abode because of tragedy, leaving to make a new start somewhere else, or\nsimply aging out of the home (just leaving ghosts of their existence behind),\nis an honest and poignant one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While these ideas are interesting and can be effective, the\nfilm certainly is not perfect. In fact, plenty of the dramatic beats are\nanything but subtle. References to a famous individual or two are forced. When\nthere\u2019s a significant character trait or issue between the characters, it is\nrepeated in a blunt fashion. It is easy to see why such methods are used. There\nare some big life events shown in various households, but the perpetual use of\nvisuals and digital effects are so prevalent that it seems as if some of the\ncast have to chew a bit of scenery just to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The story also jumps around too much. We\u2019re often in one era\nfor little more than a minute before being moved decades, or even centuries, in\ntime. The transitional devices are interestingly achieved, but the constant\nfluttering around can make it difficult to feel settled on any character and\ntheir plight. And while we witness the child of Richard and Margaret become a\nteen, she disappears from the household in the final section of the timeline,\nwhich seems like a missed opportunity to deal with ever-changing family roles over\na lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an odd picture to rate, as the constant hoping does\nultimately detract from the narrative. Yet, the film is inventive and original,\noccasionally delivering an emotionally potent moment that parallels something\nin our own lives. And, as a critic, it is apparent that we constantly rail\nagainst conventional entertainment, only to complain about the lack of\nformalism when we do get what we\u2019ve been asking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the end, Here<\/em> is an interesting picture that\ndoesn\u2019t quite hit the mark, but has imaginative and inventive moments. I would\nalso be curious to see it again in a few years, as some of the filmmaker\u2019s work\nhas been proven to be ahead of its time. Upon first viewing, this one feels\nmessy, but as one could argue, so is life. The film won’t be for everyone, but\nviewers curious for something different might appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Running Time: 104 minutes This film from Sony Pictures will be released exclusively at theaters on November 1st. One has to give credit where credit is due. Director Robert Zemekis isn\u2019t afraid to experiment and try to tell stories in new ways. While he began his career with big Hollywood hits like Romancing the Stone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[215,6251,9100,9106,9107,9109,15405,17203,17215,18709,18990,23015],"class_list":["post-29916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-215","tag-drama","tag-here","tag-here-film-review","tag-here-movie-review","tag-here-review","tag-one-angle","tag-robert-zemekis","tag-robin-wright","tag-sony-pictures","tag-stationary-camera","tag-tom-hanks"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}