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in 1989, and expanded into a 300-page comic in 2014
Tale
A generational story about families and the special place they live in, sharing love, loss, laughter and life… The "Here" based on a comic book; written by Richard McGuire. First as a tape, "Raw" appeared in a comic magazine. [from trailer] Richard: You know, you can spend the rest of the night here if you want, Margaret: The rest of my life here..
Referenced in Close Up: Which is better – movies or series?
(2024). Everyone moves into an apartment or house and at some point they think about who lived there before them and what happened in the place where they stand – that’s what this film is about. From one camera angle, we witness history through the eyes of different people from different eras – layers of life and death, happiness and sadness, joy and pain in one place, time spans millions of years, the film passes quickly in the first seconds, but slows down with the introduction of a pre-contact Indian couple. The first colonial building appears a few hundred meters away in the 1760s and was built on the house (governor’s mansion) owned by William Franklin in New Jersey.
Smaller stories about a pioneering aviator and his suffragette wife who lived in the house in BC
Flashes of other eras flash in front of this house over time – the capitulation of the British in 1783 – fireworks in the 1840s, picnics in the 1890s… But when a house is built across the street in 1900, the camera is embedded into the living room, and then most of the film goes back and forth over the next 120 years. 1900-1920; a Czech couple who lived in the home in the late 1930s-early 1940s and invented the La-Z-Boy (which is complete fiction since the chair was invented in Michigan in 1929); and an affluent black family who briefly lived in the house in B.C. From 2016 to 2023.
Of all the stories, they are the most relatable, but also the least interesting
We never see who lives in the house in the early 1920’s – early 30’s The majority of the film focuses on three generations of a family who are approx. From 1946 to 2016. Although it lacked an engaging story, I never found the film boring, partly due to the anti-aging AI trick that made Tom Hanks and Robin Wright age almost believably from 17 to 77 ;t a perfect film, some of the green screen acting was a bit it looked choppy. The costuming was generally excellent, although the mid-thigh-length mini-skirted wedding dress was too early for 1964, the shutters in the 1760s house were inappropriate, and there were several questionable set decoration issues, from a “smoking table”.
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