Ok Netflix, I wasn’t familiar with your game. This is beautiful, inside and out.
On the outside, it may be the most aesthetically beautiful film of the year. Every shot has this warm rich contrast that exudes beauty through the screen.
Inside, it is quite a touching story that is carried heavily by Joel Edgerton.
For the stories perspective, I’d like to start by mentioning that I often imagine wonder what it must’ve been like to be a person living through this era. The hyper rapid advancement of technology had humanity going from the Wright Brothers first flight of 12 seconds in 1903 to having man walk on the moon 66 years later. This is an extreme jump in ability in a relatively short period of time. All of the little jumps make a big change in the lives of every day people. Seeing this from the perspective of someone who went from no flight to the moon must be staggering.
The movie does an excellent job with this concept and keeping it really simple. Trees are the life blood to our world. 100+ years ago we began the significant effort of deforestation by hand, adding machines piece by piece, and later automating the entire process. A persons entire life can seemingly change in the blink of an eye, even if it is years, just with the change of technology. Without adapting you are always left behind.
The second part of the beauty of this movie is that it gives important perspective to the role people, relationships, connections, and family play in our world. Today we are growing ever more disconnected from each other. We move further towards a “WALL-E” lifestyle of isolation and complacency in letting technology run our lives. At the same time things like loneliness, depression, and anxiety seem to be at all time highs. We are missing connections with each other. The story in Train Dreams sees the value in connections. When he loses his family, he is starved for connection and finds ways to connect back with others. He deeply values the small connections he makes. Even Willis H Macy’s character looks at his surroundings with the trees and anyone with a smiling face as “family”. Connection and relationships with others, communities, and even surroundings were as important in this era as they are now.
Aside from all the beauty the movie was a bit slow moving. Having to be forced to watch this at home as it barely played in theaters, if at all, is a bit disappointing. Would’ve loved the full immersion on the big silver screen.
Ok Netflix, I wasn’t familiar with your game. This is beautiful, inside and out.
On the outside, it may be the most aesthetically beautiful film of the year. Every shot has this warm rich contrast that exudes beauty through the screen.
Inside, it is quite a touching story that is carried heavily by Joel Edgerton.
For the stories perspective, I’d like to start by mentioning that I often imagine wonder what it must’ve been like to be a person living through this era. The hyper rapid advancement of technology had humanity going from the Wright Brothers first flight of 12 seconds in 1903 to having man walk on the moon 66 years later. This is an extreme jump in ability in a relatively short period of time. All of the little jumps make a big change in the lives of every day people. Seeing this from the perspective of someone who went from no flight to the moon must be staggering.
The movie does an excellent job with this concept and keeping it really simple. Trees are the life blood to our world. 100+ years ago we began the significant effort of deforestation by hand, adding machines piece by piece, and later automating the entire process. A persons entire life can seemingly change in the blink of an eye, even if it is years, just with the change of technology. Without adapting you are always left behind.
The second part of the beauty of this movie is that it gives important perspective to the role people, relationships, connections, and family play in our world. Today we are growing ever more disconnected from each other. We move further towards a “WALL-E” lifestyle of isolation and complacency in letting technology run our lives. At the same time things like loneliness, depression, and anxiety seem to be at all time highs. We are missing connections with each other. The story in Train Dreams sees the value in connections. When he loses his family, he is starved for connection and finds ways to connect back with others. He deeply values the small connections he makes. Even Willis H Macy’s character looks at his surroundings with the trees and anyone with a smiling face as “family”. Connection and relationships with others, communities, and even surroundings were as important in this era as they are now.
Aside from all the beauty the movie was a bit slow moving. Having to be forced to watch this at home as it barely played in theaters, if at all, is a bit disappointing. Would’ve loved the full immersion on the big silver screen.
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