Stephen King and Mike Flaanagan emotional

There is a reaction against a modern trend called “Hopecore”, a cultural Mimi seen on social media platforms (most of them TIK TOK) that highlights positive. The reasons for this reverse reaction are several, of course. Those who consider themselves realistic believe that such a rampant positivity can be toxic. Certainly, it does not help reduce many popular feelings related to the interconnection between humanity to printed phrases on the pillows of throwing and doors that you can buy from the target. In an era in which many feel positive is to be deliberately ignorant, the idea that things can do (or even) is fine.

No single artwork can turn the pessimism into optimistic or reverse, but the strength of art can definitely address both macro and micro in an attempt to reconcile them. films, As Roger Ebert once saidThey are sympathy machines, and as much as they can work this way to learn the audience sympathy for others other than themselves, cinema can also restore sympathy for the audience. “Life of Chuck,” Another director Mike Flaanagan, is interested in sympathy for humanity, a quality that was an essential element in the movie “Flanders” (yes, that is. It includes horror movies and shows). However, this is not a movie that looks forward to putting people with empty feelings, as it is not a movie that adopts the simple heroism of the weak. It is not Hiprikor, not Frank Kabra, in other words.

Instead, “The Life Of Chuck” is one of the most insulting and mobile philosophical films ever, a movie that is considered Kierkegaard as much as it is king. In fact, Stephen King may do Kierkegaard, given that his unique structure (which reminds us of Christopher Nolan) was literally adapted from the author’s novel. However, Flanagan and its collection make the film special for them, telling a story that seeks to balancing Micro with Micro and act as a cinematic reward with an expression of a cup of either half -full or half -empty.

A large part of the magic that forms the “life of Chuck” lies in how the story is organized and narrated, so I will not spoil much here. It is sufficient to say that, like the novel, the film is listed in three seasons that spoke in a reverse chronology, and all the three are interested in Charles “Chuck” Crantz, a beloved man if he is average working as an accountant.

In the first chapter (which is indeed the third chapter, if you follow me), Chuck (which Tom Heidston plays) begins to appear on various advertising and advertisements while the world appears steadily heading to the end of the world, a mystery that the Chiwetel Ejiofor schools and nurse Velicia (Karen Gillan) try to respond to. In the second chapter, Chuck, Taylor Gordon, on the street whose music inspires to drop everything and dance, is an improvised moment where Annalily Basso joined her. After that, in the last chapter (which is the first), Chuck grows from a young boy to a teenager (Kody Flangan, Benjamin Bajak, and finally Jacob Trimlai), and learn some difficult lessons about life along the way. Among these lessons, one of them from the king, includes the grandfather of Chuck Albi (Mark Hamil) who never warns of entering the attic, because he may have the ability to photograph a person close to you, including yourself.

As you can see, although “The Life Of Chuck” is in the end an example with the same character in his position, it works more like a selection movie. There is no doubt that Flanagan, being an inventor of warriors in a horror movie, is undoubtedly aware of the imitation of Portmanteau films within this type, and although it does not necessarily change his style for each piece, it definitely differs from the tone with diversity. The first part is full of creeping awe, the second is sweet and bitter, and the third of the next tenderness is mixed with a super astringent, a mixture of Spielberg or Serling. There is something attractive “Al -Shafak Zone”-Like the film in general, as Flaanagan transmits the romantic of the blue collar to the hair of a common man.

Although each sector works perfectly as its own individual, the mixture of the three together – as soon as it is placed in the correct order by the viewer, because the film does not hold the hand of anyone in this way – it has a cumulative effect, which makes the second movie that will be released on June 6 this year that pushes the Anthology movie forward (and the other is that it is the other movie “Personnel: Killer of the killers”).

The ambition shown in the movie “The Life Of Chuck” never feels anxious, however it still requires Flanagan to connect an appetite needle. He did this before, as with “Oculus” and parallel timelines, and in “Doctor Sleep”, which seems apparently impossible Review different visions of “The Shing” by King and Stanley Kubrick. Despite the reverse structure and many puzzles that lie within the “Chuck”, Flalandan looks impressive. Although the film includes Dulcet tones by Nick Ofiman Karawi Klexi, there is no attempt to clarify what is starkly and why. Flalandan does not have to; He plays fairly with the audience, and gives them all the answers, even if they have to wait a little bit so that they can put the pieces of puzzles together.

Flalandan’s secret weapon, as is always the case, is its seriousness, a quality we do not see in the cinema these days, not to mention the prevailing American cinema. This is partly due to changing times, of course: if it is a movie like 1989 “Dreams Field” of 1989 It was released today, and its many magic and heart will be easily drowned in a sea of ​​speech, whether due to the toxicity of social media or the paradoxical poisoning cloud that we have been breathing since almost the beginning of the century. Although it is certain that he can be accused of wearing his heart on his possession (and allowing himself and his representatives indulged in the monologue), so -and -so in an innate understanding the type of audience that he makes a movie for him, and has never allowed “Chuck” in completely irony. Thus, it can be said that “Chuck” remains in the middle for a very long time, and that it is very sweet for some and exit from others. The film is equal in intellectual and emotional parts, something that still pays profits after its end (or upon re -watch), but it has the ability to make the film feel deviations while it is not promoted. Flaanagan has risked by making the cinematic glass half full (or half an empty) of water, and in this way, the individual’s response to the film depends a little more than the usual on what it brings to it.

Anyone is aware of the work of Flalandan and the king, the Chuck’s life should not be a big surprise. Certainly, both men are more popular with their terrorist acts, but the heart that showed them in acts such as “The Haunt of Hill House”, “Midnight Mass” and “The Shawshank Redemption and” Stand By Me “and others mean that their group is not something newly discovered. However, for a gay person, who is a lifelong fans For both artists, there was still revelation inside “Chuck”. For the first part of the movie, Flanagan raised a kind of fear inside me I did not realize that I had it, while the story structure showed me that the king has more creativity than I gave it to me.

The most persuasive aspect of “The Life Of Chuck” is the way it deepens and reflects many topics and concepts in the cinema and in real life. He tells the story of “Amor Fati” that looks like a kindness aspect of how to use the idea in the context of terror, It was also in the last winter “NosFERATU”. He talks about loss as something very important and normal, because of course, this is exactly what the loss is. I lost my grandmother earlier this year; The film is devoted to The late Scott and AmblerA man I knew only personally as acquaintance. However, when some deal with the loss and the specter of death, a lamentation void, it can also feel that these loved ones did not completely disappear, and that their lives made different effects, and the size hardly does not matter. This leads to a warm feeling of acceptance, and this is the conclusion to which “Chuck” comes, whether it is related to death or the way one lived his life. You should not be afraid of horrific, so it is not adopted as beautiful, but rather. When it comes to “Chuck’s Life” as it is a more thinking, sympathetic and giving movie for this year, it is just.

/Film classification: 9 out of 10

“The Life Of Chuck” is opened in selected theaters on June 6, 2025, and is wide on June 13, 2025.