In the second episode of Back to the Future, we witness a cascade of adventures through time. There are four epochs: the past (1955), the future (2015) and the present, and in two hypostases. In terms of saturation of action, the second part significantly exceeds both the first and the third. And everything is done very clearly, without confusion, which, for example, featured in another first-class film about time travel – Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys.
However, the second series is devoid of the delightful aroma of "retro", which was permeated by the first series.
The most attractive scenes in the film are views of the future or, if you like, “future views”. I remember when we were asked at school to write an essay on “What do you see as the school of the future?” Everyone invented who was in what way, but the vast majority with imagination was tight, so the "schools of the future" were similar to each other and resembled images from film strips according to the stories of Kir Bulychev. Robert Zemeckis with the excitement of a schoolboy and his incomparably richer than that of a schoolboy, fantasy (plus the imagination of screenwriter Bob Gale) paints the future world, and does it witty, almost satirically.
But now we are almost alive to the blessed times described in the film. “Species of the future” are perceived differently than twenty and a half years ago. And we see that Zemeckis has a giant scatter. On the one hand, there are all sorts of flying cars and the terror of decency, which is very contradictory (for the slightest violation of the law, they are imprisoned for fifteen years, but at the same time dysfunctional “rayons” quite continue to exist). And on the other hand – vulgar and gaggy style in clothes and interiors, completely unchanged from the 80s. Perhaps the only thing that got to the point of Zemeckis is the future dominance of 3D. In “Back the Future 2”, the tride even splashed out on the street, for example, McFly is trying to eat a voluminous shark from the posters of the next series of “Jaws” (by the way, its director is the real son of Steven Spielberg, who at the time of the release of the film Zemeckis was ten years old or so).
In the film Back to the Future 2, the director brings to the viewer the acute idea that it is so difficult to achieve life success in America that you have to turn to the help of a time machine so that you can adjust each step taken.
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