wow, what a trip. I saw the preview months ago and thought.. oh, the facebook guy (the social network / now you see me) with harry potter dude (turns out.. nope, it was just a normal actor)... until I saw the credits. NO wonder he looked so familiar - Kieran Culkin, he was the brother (real brother who played Home Alone 1/2). I have not watched Succession so I didn't know Kieran C existed.
Plot - just two cousins traveling back to grandma's town in Poland. Some bromance shit. Fine, i'll watch it. Man it was SUCH a treat.
What made it really cool and all these little things creeping up.
1) Classical musical during entire movie. Now I'm not a musical expert, i barely played the recorder in school. It wasn't until the ending scene where the cousins arrives at Chopin Airport (Warsaw, Poland) that I realized the entire score was from the famous Chopin Polish composer. Very nice touch.
2) The dynamic of two cousins, one has normal life and the other seems like who only smokes pot and a bum. Yet the personalities are so vastly different. The dynamic, the way how it touches, agitates, and even pushes each other's boundaries was so nice to follow along during the entire movie.
3) Jesse Eisenberg is not a great C class actor by any means but he does have his ways with words and acting on long monologues drawing you in. It's so weird yet so captivating despite his emotionless acting on his face. Now you won't find that in Now Yyou See me 1,2 and 3 (releasing this year), but I did remember him in The Social Network.
What was the true kicker... the movie was all Jesse Eisenberg. He wrote, direct, and starred in the movie.
Don't worry, there were no onions being cut but somehow there were some ah-ha moments on how family / bromance aspect that makes your heart sad yet happy at the same time.
Wife and I just didn't want to stop watching - jam packed script, casual and refreshing on how relatives are so weird with a love hate relationship at time.
Very low straight to DVD movie which I thought was a great gem. Two acting styles, two opposite personalities, the love hate relationship - man.... there were two specific lines that resonated.
a) "Just stop for a moment and be real" scene when he yells at the tour guide on not being real during a tour - and at the end the guy just said 'you're the first guy who actually gave real feedback'
b) "you don't know how great of charisma you've got walking into a room but once you enter, you shit all over it."
PS - apparently Jesse also wrote When You Finish Saving the World - (2 yrs ago) whom he wrote and directed so that's good to see him progressing.
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