Kobe’s review published on Letterboxd:
Green does indeed go good with Pink.
WOW. The perfect way to describe this film in as few words as possible: tragically beautiful. A term used that excellently encapsulates the message this stage-play-turned-film-adaptation enshrines throughout its showtime.
The amount of messaging and layers found within the songs, landscaping, and framing of this movie really make you think about what it really means to be “Wicked.” Because when our dearest Glinda The Good Witch of The South (or North for the MGM The Wizard of OZ baddies) sings “No One Mourns The Wicked” and the citizens of Munchkinland chime and soprano with her she realizes that while they might be singing about Elphaba The Wicked Witch of the West, she is singing about herself.
“Goodness knows the Wicked die alone”
And that’s exactly how Glinda is introduced to us in the film: alone and isolated in her own bubble… literally.
And if that’s what STARTS the movie..oh baby..I HAVE to see how Part 2 ends the story like yesterday.
The performances from our powerhouse duo of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are just wonderful to witness. This feels like their story, their origins (faux villain or not). I envision nobody else embodying the role of G(a)linda and Elphaba as these 2 have; down to the facial and non-verbal gestures they portray—particularly in the Ozdust Ballroom and final scene in the Hot Balloon tower—are just phenomenal. As someone who is only familiar with Oz and nothing of the Wicked stageplay nor book, it was pivitol that these characters that we are introduced to in that intertwining story be portrayed in an elucidating way. They truly knocked it out of the park.
The rest of the outstanding cast fill out their role’s exquisitely, especially Michelle Yeoh as Madam Morrible and Jonathon Bailey as Prince Fiyero, just a masterclass.
This movie has a splendidly grandiose opening and ending that had us asking the same question twice:
What does it take for someone to be truly wicked?
And perhaps that answer lies in the unfoertold stories like these and what happens when you push someone past their limits, so they can really become unlimited.
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