If you truly love film, this is well worth watching.
Overall I feel the film is somewhat of a failure in many ways. Yet at the very same time, I feel it is impossible to deny that there are also many great moments and aspects to this film. I could say many things about it, but I usually prefer to let people come to their own conclusions. So I rarely like to make too many definitive points, or break films down too much in reviews.
I will also add this however. It seemed the performance here by Taylor Russell was as convincing as this part could've possibly been played. She was absolutely outstanding. The film has pretty strong acting all around, but her performance even among all the other strong performances seemed as close to perfection as possible. She was also great in Bones and All (2022), which I just recently saw on the big screen. Though I thought Chalamet was the biggest standout performance in that film, but I feel he also had the more challenging and interesting role. Russell was great in Bones and All, but she's even better in this one. As I previously alluded, I really don't think anyone could've played this role any better. She was highly impressive in this, as were a few parts of the film itself.
There are some real glimpses of movie magic in here that are great, and some very effective down to earth human moments as well. The film stumbles at times I feel, and is not entirely effective. Nonetheless there are enough strong aspects here that I still think it's definitely worth a viewing for most people. Especially those who really love film. For certain, this film is at least not just your typical standard formula. There's at the very least some reasonably compelling aspects in here. In terms of real mental illness? I'm really not so sure about that at all. That's a very tricky subject. However in terms of a film/piece of art. I felt it was definitely interesting and somewhat thought provoking.
6.5/10.
Overall I feel the film is somewhat of a failure in many ways. Yet at the very same time, I feel it is impossible to deny that there are also many great moments and aspects to this film. I could say many things about it, but I usually prefer to let people come to their own conclusions. So I rarely like to make too many definitive points, or break films down too much in reviews.
I will also add this however. It seemed the performance here by Taylor Russell was as convincing as this part could've possibly been played. She was absolutely outstanding. The film has pretty strong acting all around, but her performance even among all the other strong performances seemed as close to perfection as possible. She was also great in Bones and All (2022), which I just recently saw on the big screen. Though I thought Chalamet was the biggest standout performance in that film, but I feel he also had the more challenging and interesting role. Russell was great in Bones and All, but she's even better in this one. As I previously alluded, I really don't think anyone could've played this role any better. She was highly impressive in this, as were a few parts of the film itself.
There are some real glimpses of movie magic in here that are great, and some very effective down to earth human moments as well. The film stumbles at times I feel, and is not entirely effective. Nonetheless there are enough strong aspects here that I still think it's definitely worth a viewing for most people. Especially those who really love film. For certain, this film is at least not just your typical standard formula. There's at the very least some reasonably compelling aspects in here. In terms of real mental illness? I'm really not so sure about that at all. That's a very tricky subject. However in terms of a film/piece of art. I felt it was definitely interesting and somewhat thought provoking.
6.5/10.