Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Bus loads
Today's film by Michael Gondry has the world in a city bus.
The last day of school and the kids load up for the last ride home.
There is a lot going on after school and not seeing each other for a few months or forever leads to stuff happening both in reality between them and on line between their "devices".
The world in a small bottled up situation.
The action is hard to figure at first but a patient listener begins to get what is happening between subgroups, individuals and, to an extent in their private selves.
In about ten minutes, I was riding the bus. And I never missed anything, really.
Slowly, a variety of situations arise then pass away as people get off the bus or reach their competion during the ride.
Smaller and smaller, the crowd ends with two people together. Which two? What connections, if any?
There is even a gay couple. Nicely done.
There is a great finish to a busy but very satisfying film. Tough to carry off but he does it.
Gondry has an ear and a taste for understanding then simplifying what is going on with people.
The kids are great and while not everything works out the way they or we would like them to, it does work out. For worriers like me, there is no violence. Bullying, yes. But that gets taken care of nicely.
This is not a big film. It is small and has limited objectives but its heart is huge.
I would gladly see it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
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