As a film adapted from a book of the same name, I feel that it failed. First of all, it failed in the adaptation of the script. The screenwriter and director may deliberately cut a lot of content in order to compress a family epic into a two-hour movie. Many of them I think Support the necessary background information and growth experience to bring in the understanding of the character and the audience. (The prosperity and decline of factories in industrial villages and towns were taken with only one lens switch). Secondly, the flashback technique and the poor combination of two-line narrative makes the whole movie look endless, the first third can hardly be substituted, and the ending climax and ending is also a bit untargeted, sluggish, and consumes the feelings I just brewed. . In the end, the protagonist JD’s acting skills and abilities are lacklustre, while Amyia, in contrast, can only show the relatively solidified and single side of the mother role in the relatively fatal reduction of the screenwriter. The son and mother are invariably lack of personality. , I wasted the good card of the queen in vain, and the biggest highlight of the audience was the deep-rooted acting skills of the grandmother actor.
Back to the general review, the name of this movie (and the original) is "hillbilly elegy" What is a hillbilly (what kind of social group)? How did they come (the past and environment of life)? Where are they going (the way out and the future)? Directors should ask themselves, can they explain these questions to the audience clearly through this movie?
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