The Call of the Wild is the story of Buck (as main human character, John Thornton, described it), a dog like no other, he'd been spoiled, and he'd suffered, but he could not be broken. That having been said, in the latest take on Jack London's classic novel, screenwriter Michael Green and director Chris Sanders-apparently intentionally not bound by faithfulness to the original text, particularly avoiding its darker overtones, certainly counting with receptiveness from the audience, especially from those (among us) who have read the novel-have succeeded in meeting a great deal of expectations from the film seeking to be labeled with family entertainment attribute. (2) Furthermore, CGI has erased strict distinction between live action and animation, introducing a new method and a whole new form of cinematography by blending realistic imagery and kinematics of existing animals (and other fantastic beasts) with anthropomorphic expressions and gestures given to their stylized representation in the world of animation, a trend probably started in 1970's by ILM servicing Star Wars saga, getting (over)exploited in recent followers of the kind, most notably Disney's The Lion King (2019). (1) Screenplays are usually related to source materials (works of fiction or documentary depictions of factual events and experiences) with the phrase *based on*, which is mostly read as *copied from* (whether a fictitious depiction or reality) although fully faithful account of events and their protagonists almost never happens, so, in all fairness, it might be safer to understand such relation simply as *altered from*. The actors are more than up to their challenges, as expected from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, well seconded by Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet and many others.īefore writing anything about the film itself let it be noted following. This way, although immensely entertaining, total, unrestricted amusement is debilitated with a considerable dose of bitterness in the mouth and fear in the bones. If it hadn't been true (hence scary), it would've been fun. It's about society obsessed with poking one's nose into other people's whether business or privacy, as well as possessed by the individually lucrative but commonly detrimental enterprises including futile expenditures.
Don't Look Up (2021) is an excellent film co-written and directed by Adam McKay (his latest directions including The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018)), exercising once again a satirical, occasionally sardonic approach to bring about human behaviour under given circumstances-this time facing a comet of the size of Mount Everest on an inevitably fatal collision course towards our planet Earth-abundant with rightfully pointing poisonous stings about contemporary human society immersed in consumerism, gossip, fake socializing over social networks, relied on dishonest, spineless, selfish politicians working for their own rather than for the universal benefit, dependent on greedy, predatory corporate tycoons taking advantage of clients' gullibility and their buyer mentality, etc.
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