Return No or Hymn to Beauty I could not immediately understand what I liked about this film, but after thinking about it, I realized it was all. The picture is extremely beautiful. Although the film is beautiful and should be beautiful... Ideally. But this, in my opinion, is just such a case. The filmmakers turned out to be real artists, they showed the beautiful in the ordinary, perhaps even in a very ordinary supermarket. There is no hint of vulgarity where it seems to be. The naked female body in the film is presented as the absolute embodiment of beauty, and it is difficult not to agree with this. The image corresponds to the soundtrack.
For all its seriousness and thoughtfulness, the film still manages to remain a great comedy. Humor mostly comes from the people around the main character — well, very colorful characters: that best friend, that colleagues at work — a huge thank you to the actors and the director. There's one creepy scene in the film - the movement in a frozen world - that reminded me of The Langoliers. Whoever that person was, it remained a mystery.
The central axis of the film is the reflections and experiences of Ben, around whom life continues to flow. Life flows slowly and slowly - sometimes it stops altogether, at the request of the artist. And interestingly, this seemingly phenomenal circumstance plays almost no role in the development of the plot. Possessing such a gift, the artist remains only an observer, only captures the surrounding world in his drawings. The only time Ben decides to use his ability for something other than drawing, he realizes that he will not succeed because there is no return - time only flows forward. Accordingly, it is necessary to move there – to meet your dream, and to sit in a frozen world is useless. When we stop to look around and think, we always know that sooner or later we will have to continue. That’s probably why the film’s title is similar to my favorite love movie, 500 Days of Summer. Although, of course, the past is always with us – it makes us who we are and this is also stated in the picture.
Infinitely deep and absolutely beautiful film – it touches on a bunch of small aspects of everyday life around us and at the same time talks about the main, even, perhaps, a few main things – love, the passage of time, beauty and dream.
10 out of 10
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