The first time I saw this movie was afew months ago. It was during that middle peice of summer that seems to stretch on for forever, and since I had nothing else to do why not play point and watch with the Netflix selection screen. It turned out to be quite a good catch for random choosing. It seems to succeed, at least as a peice of art.
Cherry is the story of a seventeen year old who is so brilliant that he gets into his college early. His mother is feircly overprotective, and it's obvious that they'll relationship is going to be strained during part of the movie from the start. During art class, a class that his mother didn't want him in in the first place, he meets a woman. A woman about the same age as her mom. They talk, and she takes him home. He sleeps on the couch while she entertains a man in her room. It is during this first visit to their home that he meets the woman's duaghter whom he says "talks way to god damn much." She is agitating, and a rebel in every sense. As the film goes on though we find iout the reasons for disfunction, and empathies with her. The film's main conflicts ahappen when trying to balance college life, and trying to help this family.
Thematically it has to do with the forbidden. In this case it has to do with the main charecter's romance between the mother, and the duaghter. Each of them is forbidden in a different, in fact the opposite way. One is far to old, and the other far to young. It has to do with love that is differentiated from sex. That's the entire point of the roomate charecter who personifies sex without love. The point of it seems to be that Love, that divine spark, transcends all.
The weight of the acting is enormous. There are alot of dramtic scenes of people crying. It demands alot for an audience member not to groan, or have a desire to turn off the movie right then. It was done believably enough to keep the action moving.
As an independant it does well. It has a good plot, a sustainable theme, and doesn't slow down the action. This was a good example of the independant.
Do "a lot of scenes of people crying" help or hinder this movie? I just don't get a full sense of it yet: is it a comedy? A dramedy? I think it's a comedy from the movie poster, but sometimes we need reviewers to let us know.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when reviewing, you can expand to the work of the writers, director or actors to compare this movie to others in its genre. You have analysis starting when you mention that the movie was about the "forbidden." Expand here. What other movies are about the forbidden? What draws audiences to see this type of movie?
Make sure to give an extra reading...some of your content seems to be missing.