Synopsis
Life will surprise you
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Directed by Dan Fogelman
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Oscar Isaac Olivia Wilde Annette Bening Antonio Banderas Samuel L. Jackson Olivia Cooke Mandy Patinkin Jean Smart Sergio Peris-Mencheta Laia Costa Àlex Monner Isabel Durant Lorenza Izzo Jake Robinson Adrián Marrero Kya Kruse Charlie Thurston Gabby Bryan Jordana Rose Caitlin Carmichael Bryant Carroll Carmela Lloret Grace Song Micah Stock Tony Manna Yvonne Szacki Noah Gaynor Ed Crescimanni Zach Page Show All…
Ron von Blomberg Tricia Peck Henry Wulster Gail Reilly Leonore Zydel Chris Alexander Hermes Parga Rick Guzman Katie Clinebelle Hiram Velez Jose Rubi Jack Mortellaro Jr. Pasram Goberdhan Alex Cables
Djuna Wahlrab Asaf Yeger Marie-Claude Lafontaine Vico Sharabani Steven Weigle Jean-François Ferland Mark Russell Aaron Raff
David Ott David Ott Kachina Dechert Chris Cenatiempo Warren E. Hull Brian Smyj Scott Kelly John Cenatiempo John Finnerty Jr. Luciano Acuna Jr. Don Hewitt Sr.
Hector C. Gika Jackie! Zhou Wylie Stateman David J. Schwartz Eric Hoehn Randy K. Singer Adrián Foulkes Gary A. Hecker
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watching this movie while having a cold and being bedridden is like having sleep paralysis and the demons that are haunting your peripheral vision are oscar isaac and olivia wilde in their pulp fiction cosplay doing the whip and nae nae and all you can do is silently scream and pray for the mercy of a bullet
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
NEGATIVES:
- the entire first half
- oscar isaac
- fundamental misunderstanding of academia
- weird casual homophobia
- mansplaining bob dylan directly to the audience
- TWO DIFFERENT NARRATORS
- typo in the subtitles (this matters to me.)
- exploiting mental illness/suicide for shock value
- oscar isaac doing a keg stand
- depressed oscar isaac with a beard ruining my enjoyment of inside llewyn davis by association
- misogyny
- like this movie just straight up hates women
- women are either young & stupid or they’re mothers and they die tragically after imparting wisdom to men, who are allowed to be real people
- amazon product placement
POSITIVES:
- annette bening’s wardrobe
- oscar isaac can pay his rent this year!
- antonio banderas
WHOA!
I was reading reviews either this or last week that had me deciding maybe I shouldn’t even see this movie. WHAT!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! Then I read another couple of reviews in the last couple of days that made me think I should check this out (I almost ditched this to see the new Jack White documentary).
Some things in the story might come off as irrelevant or flippant, but these things are mostly justified. It does get a bit messy and jarring with the different narrators. It mainly works, though. I was definitely taken on an emotional rollercoaster. The plot points seemed thoughtful as opposed to contrived, so it mainly worked for me. The narrative was playful, yet deadly serious. The…
Never before on screen have I seen filth so reliably spewed across multiple generations. This is an insult to the incredible cast, to the audience’s intelligence, and to anyone who has ever suffered trauma (or quite frankly, lived life in general). This is two hours of exasperating exposition, all doled out through monologues in which family trees are explicated with the subtlety of a guillotine. Actual serious issues are swept under the rug as the screenplay jacks off to its “interconnectivity” and idiot student thesis about life as an unreliable narrator. It isn’t until the last third when the film approaches anything resembling a story, but by then, it’s already warped itself into a manipulative, callous, and arrogant deformity. This…
curious in what university program “life is an unreliable narrator” would be an acceptable thesis
In college, I heard about a torture in Greece in which an offender was locked inside a large brass bull and a large fire lit underneath, literally roasting the criminal to death. Apparently, due to the way the bull was constructed, the long, anguished screams of the victims were muffled into sounding like the groans and bellows of a bull. There's no way of knowing why I thought of that while watching this.