
08 November 2021kino and TV shows
Review of the film "Eternal": Nothing forever under the moon
It seems from the very launch of the cinematic Marvel Kevin Faygi has never risked once as in 2021. Never before he had so many opportunities to stumble. TV shows on Disney+ they could not take off, but still took off. "Black Widow" obviously stood on the shelf and missed the inertia after "Final" , but still collected some money and showed herself on streaming. In the end, "Shangi" He was so risky that even the head of Disney Bob Chapeke disowned before him. But no – the Asian superhero managed to win both the cashier and the love of the audience. It seemed that the Faygi team is invulnerable … and then they broke through "Eternal".
48% on Rotten Tomatoes! Forty eight! Even the second "Torah" , recognized outsider MCU, 18% more. And only eight percent separate the "eternal" from "League of Justice" Widon. No, this does not mean at all that the film is exactly so bad: the aggregators are not unconditionally believe-neither now, nor ever. But this means that Marvel first lost the support of the vast majority of reviewers. For the first time in 13 years, the studio released something truly controversial and contradictory.
At times the film really resembles “dune”, but only sometimes
So, the universe in which the events of all Marvel films unfold, created not natural physical processes and not a bearded old man in white, but powerful cosmobogs, known as Celestials. It was they who packed the stars from the energy of creation and collected galaxies. It was by their will on Earth and other planets that a reasonable life appeared. But the universe is imperfect: every now and then, thoughtless predators, nicknamed the deviants, intervene in the natural course of evolution. In order to return everything to their own circles, Celestials use their faithful servants of the eternal – non -permanent humanoids endowed with superpowers. Their task is to exterminate the deviants and look after the population of the planets, but at the same time stay away from internal conflicts.
Seven thousand years ago, a detachment of such defenders arrived to Earth and successfully cleaned it from monsters. Centuries have passed. The exploits of alien heroes became myths, and they themselves scattered where. Some tried to get lost among mortals and lead an ordinary life, others chose to leave away from civilization. But here – already in our time – suddenly appeared, it would seem, extinct deviants, and their return promises great troubles. So, it's time to assemble the team again.
The last time they were hinted at the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" as many as seven years ago. It is not surprising that the entire central concept of the "eternal" seems to be taken from the ceiling and has nothing to do with MCU
In the reviews of the "eternal" are often compared with "The Justice League of Zach Snyder" (scale, pathos) and "Dune" Denis Villeneva (luxurious landscapes, slowness, minimalism in the design of costumes and ships), but structurally the film, oddly enough, is closest to "Guardians". Here, both the long -broken team of superheroes, and the mysterious murder, which serves as an omen of the upcoming apocalypse, and flashbacks, scattered throughout the timing. There are still a couple of common features, but they are already from the field of spoilers.
Here are just Chloe Zhao not Alan Moore and not Zak Snyder. She is an Oscar -winning director of festival dramas, where people dig in themselves against the backdrop of a stunningly removed nature. And at the heart of its “eternal” – it is such a movie … But only at those moments when he does not have to be a Marvel blockbuster. A similar crisis of identity was "Hulk" Enga Lee, where the film comic about the green giant fought with the Greek tragedy, and as a result, both lost. So Zhao’s superhero epic does not complement the chamber drama, but shouts it. In addition, the film bursts from the abundance of ideas, concepts and topics. Here is the theory of Paleo contact, and the origin of the myths, and the secret inside out of the story, and the tragedy of the long -liver, and the exorbitant price of the highest good … oh yes, and there is a central conflict, as well as ten (ten (!) characters not familiar to the viewer. And for everything about all two and a half hours.
Actress Leah McChe was born just three years before the launch of the cinema sorted Marvel. Feel like old people
Paradoxically, the heroes were best a successful. Almost each of them turned out if not to reveal, then at least imagine, and so that their characters are remembered better than abilities. Some even got full -fledged arches. For example, sprite is a local analogue of Claudia from "Interview with the vampire" , That is, an adult woman, forever locked in the body of a teenage girl. She tries to suppress in herself unfulfilled desires, but she cannot, which is why not the first century suffers. And the harsh Warrior of the Fina is fighting the whole film with a kind of superhero dementia: centuries of memories break her consciousness into pieces, which is why she loses control of herself and becomes dangerous for others. And there is a genius-neurotic Fastos, who was disappointed in humanity, but fell in love with a man, and a sarcastic misanthropic Druig, whose views are balanced on the verge of extremism, and the self-propelled merryman Kingo, and the good-natured gilgamesh, and ..
Ten is still too much. The team alone takes three quarters of the timing, which is why the plot actually skips on the spot. Like in a damned one "Fantastic four" Josh Tram, the film begins, begins, begins and ends. In addition, because of such an abundance of characters, they reveal them to a minimum, albeit very bright. The same applies to a formal protagonist – Sergi. Just a kind and sensitive girl is lost on the colorful background of her fellow tribesmen. Of course, we can say that all eternal are the main characters to one degree or another. But, as you know, "everything" is at the same time "no one". And making a film without the main character is the task, if execution, then extremely difficult.
Beauty Sersi loves handsome Ikaris. Alas, this is almost the only determining feature of the central heroine
It is no less difficult to do superhero cinema without supervision. Deviants are just brainless monsters with a rather boring design. They can be replaced even with Chitauri from the first "Avengers" , at least on the minions of the Tanos from the latter-hardly anyone will notice the substitution. Yes, among them there is one particularly strong evolutionary deviant, who eventually finds the voice and features of Bill Skarsgard's face (here's a useless embezzlement of a talented actor), but he does not reach the rank of worthy antagonist. "Eternal" try to do without the usual megalomaniac, trying on the features of the film-catastrophe, where the conditional enemy is a certain power of nature, devoid of motives. And the final confrontation is not a battle of good with evil, but an attempt to reconcile warring ideologies in the face of a common danger. Actual, dramatic, in an adult … And yet it is boring to a toothy gnashing. Apparently, worthy of replacing the tanos, we will not rain soon soon.
In general, in the "eternal" there is a sharp desire Marvel Studios Make a "real" movie. Such that all high -loving film critics gasped, and Martin Scorsese took his offensive Golden Mister sister sites words back. Instant classics, pop cultural pillar, not otherwise. This is indicated by the abundance of stars in the most inclusive in the history of the film comics of the cast, and the pathos soundtrack Ramin Javadi, and the scale of events from which even Dr. Strange would have fainted, and, of course, the choice of the director. Yes, Chloe Zhao was appointed to the project long before she received her Oscar, but even then she was a fashionable creator from the festival environment. That is, potentially new Nolan or Villenev – just what you need. Well, after receiving the golden figurine Zhao, even became the main star of the entire enterprise. Only now it can be seen that Faigi and the company did not trust their new favorite. Or she herself, as often happens, was confused on the site and was afraid to squeeze her vision, instead obediently making editing from studio bosses. Whatever the reason, the result is one: the "eternal" are woven from the contradictions. This is both a drama with an abundance of bright characters, but hastily screwed by action, and an unacceptably slow superhero blockbuster, overloaded with a chatter, – the point of view depends on the audience preferences. For some, “eternal”, in accordance with the rating on “tomatoes”, will become the worst that Marvel dared to release on large screens, and for others – ambitious, amazingly beautiful, albeit an imperfect film.
One thing can be said for sure: Kevin Faygi went to an unprecedented risk, and whether he will justify himself, time will tell.
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