2022 is over, but our list of the year’s best is still expanding as we catch up on everything movie lovers missed out on in a year when great movies were scattered across every release platform imaginable. 2 movies ranked in Many of those end-of-year lists: Todd Field’s 158-minute epic, tarabout the rise and fall of a fictional conductor (played by Cate Blanchett and almost guaranteed an Oscar nomination for Best Actress) and the whimsical tidbits of Dean Fleischer Camp. Seashell Marcel wearing shoessome feature-length extensions Weirdness of YouTube It went viral 12 years ago.
One of these films is a grimly analyzed drama about a world-famous, sexually manipulative, and morally questionable woman in a career that rarely recognizes women. The other is about a cute, lonely seashell with googly eyes. But oddly enough, they turned out to be pretty much the same movie, apart from a few minor details like ‘tone’, ‘intention’, ‘scope’ and ‘execution’. Check out the similarities:
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- Both films focus on sensitive, fussy, idiosyncratic creators who express their individuality through music, have a very precise method, and resent outside opinions and interference in their work.
- Both main characters are estranged from their families and try to get on with their lives with the help of non-family members.
- Both Marcel and Lydia Tár rely on assistants for that support, but they make the mistake of believing that those assistants are more invested in them personally than they actually are. You end up rebelling against the emotional needs of the protagonist.
- Both main characters spend a lot of time on screen getting interviewed by real journalists — in the case of Lydia, The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, 60 minutesLeslie Stahl for Marcel.
- Both protagonists require the cooperation and co-operation of the media to achieve their goals, the side effects of which are overwhelming, problematic, and not easy to control. Both find their fame attracting unwanted attention from opportunists.
- In both cases, their assistant secretly films them and distributes the video online.
- Both experience devastating loss and react by sinking into paralytic depression, withdrawing from everyone they were previously connected to. I’m looking for
- Both eventually reunite with their estranged families.
- And at the end of the film, they express the end of their emotional paralysis by creating music for other people. It ends with a performance to pick up.
So there you have it — no meaningful difference at all tar When Marcel the Shell in shoes. In summary, both movies have the same basic message. I mean, artists are hard to work with, media is too, and the public is the worst of all. It’s strange that he needed two movies in a year that dealt with the same thing.
But hey, remember the time we got Armageddon When deep Impact, Two action blockbusters about an earth-threatening asteroid in the same year? In fact, I may have to watch both of these movies again to see if there are any similarities. Marcel When tarthat too.
