That was almost traumatising in how overblown this whole movie was.
There are several issues as to why this didn’t work for me, but yeah the main one came from the pace and the runtime.
There were too many intricate details to the plot making the whole thing somewhat hard to follow. The dialogues were witty and often fun, but the scenes ran on for far too long, making the gist of each scene often diluted.
And boy, this has been in my watchlist for so long, because it looked like a fun, scrumptious musical, and in a way, it is. Topsy Turvy is gorgeous in terms of visuals, costumes and such. But! I didn’t know what the movie was even remotely about until I watched it. What do you mean it’s about the English elite discovering Japan and making a whole opera with very racist undertones about the whole country?! And then discarding it all away once the play met success..
Pheww… The only thing that saved this for me (along with the costumes and settings) is the performances of Timothy Spall and Shirley Henderson.
That was almost traumatising in how overblown this whole movie was.
There are several issues as to why this didn’t work for me, but yeah the main one came from the pace and the runtime.
There were too many intricate details to the plot making the whole thing somewhat hard to follow. The dialogues were witty and often fun, but the scenes ran on for far too long, making the gist of each scene often diluted.
And boy, this has been in my watchlist for so long, because it looked like a fun, scrumptious musical, and in a way, it is. Topsy Turvy is gorgeous in terms of visuals, costumes and such. But! I didn’t know what the movie was even remotely about until I watched it. What do you mean it’s about the English elite discovering Japan and making a whole opera with very racist undertones about the whole country?! And then discarding it all away once the play met success..
Pheww… The only thing that saved this for me (along with the costumes and settings) is the performances of Timothy Spall and Shirley Henderson.
