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Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here
Story
A story for generations about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing love, loss, laughter and life.. Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire. It was first published as a strip in the comic magazine "Raw" in 1989 and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. [from trailer] Richard: You know, if you want, you can spend the rest of the night here. Said in Close-Up: Which is better – movies or TV series?
Harter (Michelle Dockery), an aspiring airplane pilot until 1918
(2024). It is an epic historical drama set in one geographic location, possibly New Jersey, from prehistoric times to the present. It quickly deals with dinosaurs and the Ice Age, then in a confused way turns to the pre-European era with a local couple (Joel Ullet and Danny McCallum), colonial times with the new William Franklin (Daniel Betts) at home, then in the living room of the house , built in 1900 across the street from the colonial house. We meet various families who lived in the house, including John (Gwilym Lee) and Mrs. We later meet Lee (David Finn) and Stella Beekman (Ophelia Lovibond), the fictional inventor of the reclining chair, who lived there until the 1940s.
Sometimes multiple eras are on screen at the same time in framed screen segments
After the war, the main subjects of the story are Al (Paul Bettany) and Rose Young (Kelly Reilly), their son Richard (Tom Hanks) and Tom’s girlfriend and later wife Margaret (Robin Wright). ). Later, the African-American Harris family, Devon (Nicholas Pinnock) and Helen (Nikki Amuka-Bird) live in the house. Robert Zemeckis uses one camera position that looks across the living room to the outside picture window after the house is built. We see joy, sorrow, disappointment, conflict, comfort, nostalgia, and pathos in the various lives lived in this space.
The prehistoric stuff felt tacked on
Contrary to some critics, I thought Robert Zemeckis’ approach worked reasonably well for a holiday film. There is no climax, but "Here" sympathetically observes the unfolding of life. Not everything about the movie was great. Local segments needed more significant development or missed. The movie could have started with the house built in 1900.
I would like to know more about the Harris family
But it was vintage Tom Hanks as a regular guy, and Robin Wright was a good match.
