Opus (Now transmit on Vod platforms as Amazon Prime Video) is an A24 movie that feels like a parody of an A24 movie. Directed by the first timer Mark Anthony Green and starring Ayo Edebiri as a young journalist invited to the remote complex of the eccentric pop star of John Malkovich, the film follows a peculiarity formula and a territory of Horby territory, as well as many films that preceded it in the last decade. He struggled to find an audience, box office: $ 2 million, after his debut in Sundance, and hopefully did not represent a turning point for a films distributor that has been the spear point of a creative rebirth.
OPUS: Transmit it or omit it?
The yeast: We open with images of people in ecstasy. They dance, sing, smile, jump for joy. They have been lost in the energy and atmosphere of a pop music performance. They have stars in the eyes, and do not forget that image: it will return deeply in the movie. Now, cut to the office of a New York City magazine, where Ariel Ecton (Edebiri) has tired of launching ideas for stories that his fury of an editor, Stan (Murray Bartlett), routinely gives other writers. He is 27 years old and has had this work for three years and is frustrated. Understandable. And Stan is absolutely the type of type that would refer to an assistant editor in staff as “my assistant” with all the derogatory condescension of an egomaniac secretly insecure that deserves a boot in the ass.
With this dynamic of the firmly established boss, the plot presents Moretti (Malkovich), a lonely pop star who has been out of radar for 27 years. Finally he will launch a new album. Great history. Enormous! Stan, who is old enough to remember a moment before the Internet existed and when Moretti was as great as Michael Jackson and went out with Cindy Crawford, receives an invitation to the musician’s desert complex for a listening party, and also Ariel. She is alive in her leg while he is on her leg in isolation, and does she join some types of media selected for this party? Curious. Of course, Stan is established immediately as the writer of this story, so Ariel can take notes for him.
A Few Other Pseudo-Journos Join Stan and Ariel On The Private Plane To Utah Followed by A Four-Hour Bus Trip To The Middle of The Desert: TV Talk-Show Host Clara Armstrong (Juliette Lewis), Radio Jock-Turned-Podcaster Bill Lotter Emscuer EMSCER EMSCER EMSCER EMSCER EMSCER Bill Lottoer Emscer-in-Podaster Bill Lottoer Emscer-in-Podcastenesen (Sivertsen), influencessen (SIVERSERTSEN), INFLESSEN (Sivertsen), Inflenssen (Sivertsen), Inflot (Stephanie Suganami) and the photographer of paparazzi bianca tyson (Melissa (Melissa Chambers). The place is far enough from civilization so that it must arouse suspicion if you are not a film character, which is about being an unwanted fool like all these people, except, of course. Upon arrival, they are received by a lot of rare rare who use giant red flags, and that is why they mean that they use a charm bracelet, I mean, matching blue robes that shout is a cult, and they have glassy eyes and the eyes glass SCUBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEBEEPIISIDEISISIANES PREVIOUS AND then PLACED. There, these people call themselves “levelist”, nothing seems to be at the level here.
After the cell phones of all and other media with the outside world have been confiscated, Moretti comes to congregular to his guest for having the honor of his presence. They eat a meal that begins with boxes of people in a long table bar, a large moody bite open directly with the same piece of bread increasingly soaked. Stan and his media offices not only give an eye on this, possible because they are in the presence of a God among men, once called “the Wizard of Wood”, which shows them with such luxury, makes regular negligence. Ariel seems to be the only one not intimidated by all this. She passes the next day more or less with her eyebrow with her eyebrow and wrinkled nose when Moretti’s henchmen do to her guests and cut their pubes (!), Becare Equipment, the noble person can have a great big big under Garn who moves looking at Hile looking at Hile looking at Hile looking at Hile. It is quite clear that this is just what happens when you are visiting a strange bubble of Megacebeb, and nothing sinister is happening at all. NOSIRREE. I’m sure everything is fine.
What movies will you remember you?: Half and Go out They are the great reference points, with Flash twice and The menu Showing its influence as well.
It is worth seeing the performance: It is very easy to like Edibiri in any role, especially the rare leadership in a feature of the center of the center, but this does not make use or its considerable comedy skills.
Memorable dialogue: Ariel takes notes, without realizing that Moretti reads on his shoulder: “No” Sycophant “has a” or “?”
Sex and skin: To cite the IMDB “Parent Guide”: “Penis visible in the body without a head”.
OUR TOMA: Opus He suffers from the story that we are going to history, with several thematically challenging and intelligence films that present protagonists who involuntarily end up in a hostile company isolated by Bey Bewwer Go out Racial dynamics explore, Half Agitated ideas about tradition and “cultural differences” The menu Food trends with scholarships and Flash twice He threatened to wear the formula, but hardened the ship with a thread of feminist revenge after#metao metao.
Opus It flirts with relevance when issuing a critical eye to the cult of the celebrity in the Swiftie era, with partially formed satirical representations of new and ancient journalistic means (the questionable ethics of food in the celebrity channel was a more skillfully managed theme by NightCrawler And, or all things, NETTING HILL) And the dynamics of power of the workplace (although Ariel is young, black and female under a white male boss, the subtext is strangely blank). And here we sit down, we feel the presence of many other films, but not their undeniable vigor.
In addition, a question for you: Who, if you are Cosplaying as director of casting, look for some to play a head popular star in the clouds, think immediately? John Malkovich? There is a thin line between the launch against the type and the briefcase, and this is biased to the latter. Malkovich portrays Moretti as a hybrid or Michael Jackson and Elton John, and Althegh that instinct is at the point, the character as writing is a Mishmash or Charles Manson, prince and, I don’t know, Kylie Minogue? Liam Gallagher? The Wu-Tang clan and its one and a copy of Once upon a time in Shaolin? Meanwhile, the inexpressive frying of Edebiri is marginalized to play the only healthy person in a world of idiots, and although he is certainly able to interpret heterosexual woman, he should not do much more. And the cast of support is struggling to reach the baseline by the fun cartoon (Lewis is especially underlying, which makes the Juliette Lewissain in Limbo).
And although Green shows some capacity for a convincing visual approach, hey or senes to be drifting with his influences. He directs as if he were too confident in weak material, and the final product changes between the confused narration and the hits of thematic brands in the nose. And if I can unwind the Pretzel, Green’s script is too guessed to be predictable unpredictable. Finally, we have heard this song many times before.
Our call: Hopeless. Omit it.
John Serba is an independent and critical writer with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
