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Monday, July 17, 2023 / 10:28 a.m
Since the promotional videos for the new movie “Asteroid City” began, one might easily think that the movie will not be among the most viewed or admired works of art, especially since director Wes Anderson is more creative through his artistic style in writing and filming the movie scenes.
And who passed it Anderson Filmssuch as “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL” which was released in 2014, or FANTASTIC MR. FOX released in 2009, and other films, can look at the way the script is written, how the camera moves, or the quality of the colors used, and what it means from a distinctive touch in the world of cinema.
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“Asteroid City”, so to speak in Arabic, is one of those films about which opinions differed.. There is a group that will love this film and talk about the ingenuity in its production, and there will be the largest percentage of its viewers who are not satisfied with the work, nor the plot of the film, and perhaps They are confused throughout the duration of his presentation.
The film, which follows the dramatic and romantic comedy atmosphere, takes place in the United States at the beginning of the era of space exploration in the mid-fifties of the last century, and includes a group of Hollywood stars, including Scarlet JohansanJason Schwartzman, Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Bryan Cranston, Stephen Carell, and many more.
Despite the large number of these stars, many comments indicated that the film’s plot is not as clear as Anderson’s previous works.
Asteroid City is a movie-within-a-movie, featuring a critic, who is not identified by name but played by Bryan Cranston, and tells the story of playwright, Conrad Earp, played by Edward Norton. All of Earp’s scenes appear in black and white, and so are any scenes set within the world of the play, which is being directed by Schubert Greene, played by Adrien Brody.
The two interwoven stories intertwine in the film brilliantly, as the film is divided into chapters and scenes, with cards between the chapters, as if the viewer is reading the account of the arrival of several families in “Asteroid City” in the California desert to observe an astronomical phenomenon, and to present their children’s inventions, but an alien visit to retrieve the asteroid. As a result, the government quarantines all residents of the city, including visitors, to prevent them from telling the world about the existence of aliens, and perhaps the impact of major lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic could help in this corner.
But the hidden story that the film tries to address, away from aliens, government plans and supposed theatrical performances, is how to deal with grief, the grief of losing a wife and mother, and how the family members, from the grandfather, the husband and the three girls, cope with the farewell and burial ceremonies of the wife.
However, no matter how different opinions are about the film, it cannot be denied that many of the feelings that the viewer experiences, if his attention remains focused on the screen, is a reflection of the feeling of panic that afflicted the largest proportion of the Earth’s population during the Corona pandemic, especially the period of uncertainty and loss that enveloped the planet at the time. Which the director of the film refers to within the film to the main actor with the phrase, “Just keep telling the story,” as if Anderson wanted to say through the new movie, “Everything will pass.”
It is noteworthy that the film is expected to start showing in cinemas in the UAE at the end of next August.
