Always trying to explore new territory, as far as one can do that as someone who else has a full-time job and other interests as well. So, here is a new acquaintance. Miranda July, who seems to be the darling of some critics. The Future is my first meeting with her output. It seems that she is the darling of some critics, but as to Rotten Tomatoes this was her least successful step into the movie world.
The starting point was promising. A hipster couple, Jason (Hamish Linklater) and Sophie (Miranda July) refuses to acknowledge, that hey are getting middle-aged - while they are 35. They reason, they will be 40 in some years and 40 is almost like 50 and then the rest is just small coins. (I wish, I had their problems.) But they decide to take some responsibility by adopting an injured cat. They can fetch Paw-Paw after a month. This decision changes their perspective of life. Sophie begins an affair with an older man and moves into his house. There she has everything ready-made, family-life is already laid-out for her. Jason starts talking to the moon. He believes that he can stop time ("It has been 3:14 for days now.") In between the injured Paw-Paw is waiting for the couple to fetch him and contemplates about future life with them. As they are too busy to love their own problems, they forget about Paw-Paw. (Good they didn't adopt a child from Africa or even worse decided to have a child of their own.) While trying to move on, they manage to ruin their relationship.
There is a lot to be liked in this film, but it is finally unrewarding and unsatisfying. I don't see why Sophie suddenly feels the need to feel younger by dating an older man. Jason's efforts to stop time show how little they are rooted in reality and therefore this also indicates that July's approach has little, if any,resemblance experiences of midlife-crises which more normal people have. It seems to be a look at how the leisure class tries to escape ageing - and fails.
5/10
The starting point was promising. A hipster couple, Jason (Hamish Linklater) and Sophie (Miranda July) refuses to acknowledge, that hey are getting middle-aged - while they are 35. They reason, they will be 40 in some years and 40 is almost like 50 and then the rest is just small coins. (I wish, I had their problems.) But they decide to take some responsibility by adopting an injured cat. They can fetch Paw-Paw after a month. This decision changes their perspective of life. Sophie begins an affair with an older man and moves into his house. There she has everything ready-made, family-life is already laid-out for her. Jason starts talking to the moon. He believes that he can stop time ("It has been 3:14 for days now.") In between the injured Paw-Paw is waiting for the couple to fetch him and contemplates about future life with them. As they are too busy to love their own problems, they forget about Paw-Paw. (Good they didn't adopt a child from Africa or even worse decided to have a child of their own.) While trying to move on, they manage to ruin their relationship.
There is a lot to be liked in this film, but it is finally unrewarding and unsatisfying. I don't see why Sophie suddenly feels the need to feel younger by dating an older man. Jason's efforts to stop time show how little they are rooted in reality and therefore this also indicates that July's approach has little, if any,resemblance experiences of midlife-crises which more normal people have. It seems to be a look at how the leisure class tries to escape ageing - and fails.
5/10
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