Yesterday, I finally watched the longest film, which still could not take up, then I thought that I would watch it in two receptions, but suddenly watched in one sitting, this is the film by Damien Chazelle “Babylon” / Babylon, 2022, lasting 3 hours 8 minutes. This is a rather controversial film about the birth of Hollywood, in which
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Yesterday, I finally watched the longest film, which still could not take up, then I thought that I would watch it in two receptions, but suddenly watched in one sitting, this is the film by Damien Chazelle “Babylon” / Babylon, 2022, lasting 3 hours 8 minutes. This is a rather controversial film about the birth of Hollywood, in which the process is not shown in complementary tones, rather the opposite. The action begins in the twenties, silent films are still made, out of the set at all kinds of parties there is complete revelry, drunkenness and drug addiction, although on the set we sometimes see people immersed in the process of difficult then filming who really want to make a film. The main characters are the popular actor Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), a good man, in principle, only an alcoholic and a womanizer, a young Mexican Manuel, Manny, Torres (Diego Calva) and a young girl who proclaimed herself a star, Nelly La Roy (Margot Robbie). Jack is extremely successful in films, Manny, at first working just as a servant in the house of the head of the studio, suddenly encounters Jack, he feels sympathy for him, brings him closer to himself and helps him advance, although the guy himself has a well-known resourcefulness, Nelly somehow shows up at the house of the head of the film studio for another party, perfectly fits into this orgy, she is noticed and begins to shoot. But as time goes by, sound movies gradually begin to displace actors like Jack, Nelly becomes an alcoholic, a drug addict and a gambler, but Manuel is very successful and becomes a director. He's still in love with Nelly, but it doesn't end well, just the opposite. Life around also begins to gradually change, to replace all this unbridledness begins to come a more restrained manner of behavior. In connection with all this, there are changes in the lives of the heroes, I will not tell you. Oddly enough, I even liked the film, although there is, of course, something to complain about. Hollywood is not the fantastic world as it is often represented in films about it, it is a rather dirty party, here the director did not regret caustic satire. Actors are good, too. At first, Emma Stone was supposed to star as Nelly, then she couldn’t, but frankly, I thought Margot Robbie was better suited for this role, well, Brad Pitt, as always, is not bad, as is the main character Manuel performed by Mexican-American actor Diego Calva, whom I had not seen before.
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