Cinemaa de Chuck expresses the wonder of being alive

It is the end of the world as we know it, and Charles “Chuck” Krantz (Tone Hiddleston) Do not feel well. Outside the room where this 39 -year -old accountant is lying, there are earthquakes, holes and volcanoes erupting in Germany. California sank in the ocean. Suicide rates are very high. Both our social infrastructure and the internet are on the brink of collapse. The adult content site Pornhub is already offline. We repeat: Pornhub. This. Offline!

Inside that room, however, Krantz It is also in the process of death. Your wife (Q’ORIANKA KILCHERfrom The New World) And his son sit next to him while a whistle monitor and a brain tumor kills him slowly and silently. This anonymous gentleman has lived a life of silent despair, with the occasional and impactful display of public dance that aims to represent as a single step on the road that you would like to have told it can lead to momentary, lighter and heavier way. But we are rushing. And given that the adaptation of Mike Flanagan of the soap opera Stephen King It remains faithful to the structure of the source material when it starts at the end, we will be here for a second as well. Chuck It will soon be disqualified from this mortal life. Humanity as a whole is just a few baby steps behind it.

But here’s what is it?! An outdoor, apparently erected overnight, with Krantz Sitting to your table thanking you for “39 amazing years”? Also, all local radio stations and television channels are broadcasting an equally grateful ad in honor of this previously unknown and unheard of numbers counter? No one knew who this was Chuck until then. Nor Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the teacher who courageously tries to clarify high school students on the glory of “Song of myself”from Walt Whitman. Nor Gus (Matthew Lillard), the neighboring worker of Martywhich regrets the sadness and the penalty of all this. Nor Sam (Carl Lumbly), the kind funeral agent that Marty You know on your last day on Earth. Or Happiness (Karen Gillian), the overwhelmed nurse of the emergency room with whom Marty He was married once, and with whom he will spend his last moments, before the existence of everything is erased in a moment.

This is how Chuck’s life Imagine that we will end, all grateful, whispering “was a good race” and without major climate bangs. But hey, don’t worry about the apocalypse – let’s watch Tone Hiddleston to dance! Both the tale of King (From your 2020 collection If it bleeds) regarding the interpretation of Flanhagan From the material they establish this mysterious man as a kind of blank blackboard, a bow figure in which everyone can project their thoughts, feelings, joys and regrets while facing total extinction. You might think that some kind of hot approach Truman Show About instant celebrity also awaits you. But then we return to act two, which focuses on the tour of Chuck Boston for a conference. He passes by chance for Queen Pocket (Taylor Franck), a drummer playing on the street in a city center square. A WOMAN CALLED Janice (Annalise Bassofrom Express of Tomorrow) has just taken a foot in the butt by text message. She is watching the drummer’s song. Chuck Suddenly it begins to dance improvisedly. He pulls Janice From the middle of the crowd, and see, we have a good old duet in hand.

On the pages, the sequence looks good. On the screen, however, it is an authentic musical number, raised to levels of shock and astonishment worthy of a movie. See, we are not monsters. It turns out that the star of Lokiis a first -rate dancer, just like Basso. It is far from us to deny anyone – including ourselves – the pure pleasure of watching two people dancing with such grace, elegance and the good old sex appeal. Flanhagan It is no strange to the work of Kingeither by addressing the author’s true literary references or creating his own masterpieces, which have a strong debt with the terror icon catalog. Thanks to Hyddleston and Bassohowever, the filmmaker takes one of the most reflective stories and without scares Kingselects an incident in the middle of it and creates the independent type of sequence that is designed to become meme forever and to accumulate billions of youtube views from now to the end of the world. It is less a macabre master and another MGM musical extravagance. Chuck’s life It will be forever remembered as the film that presents The tone dance. And that’s where your blessing and your curse resides.

Because without this sequence … let’s be honest: you have nothing. Before Hyddleston and Basso turn into Fred and GingerYou are subjected to slight lamentation on what all this means, because we are here and what happens when it all ends, with excellent actors striving to make the dormitory philosophy look deep. A baking soundtrack and the ironic narration of Nick Offermantaken from body and soul of the prose of Kingthey don’t help at all. But on the other side of this middle scene, you have a long chapter on the childhood of Chuckwhich tells us how the future accountant originally got his pace. Involves your grandparents, interpreted by Mark Hamill and Mia Sarashe Enjoying the sick life; a school ball; and the young man Chuck (Benjamin Pajak) Overcoming his shyness to dance waltz, shake and make Moonwalk to conquer the hearts of his colleagues. We have already supported many Melosal Chavões. Now we are subjected to sub-spielberg sentimentality with an extra touch of sentimentality. Goodbye, goodwill won.

There is also a haunted room, in which our hero is forbidden to enter and that eventually offers the teenager Chuck (Jacob Tremblay) A vision of what is coming. If you have not realized the potential subjectivity of that first act – or rather the last act that is placed first – and somehow forgotten, despite the numerous reminders of the movie that we are all crowds, it reinforces the notion several times more. In the midst of life, we are in death, but also vice versa, etc. Chuck’s life You want you to feel the pure wonder of being alive, and you are willing to hammer this beatific idea in you repeatedly, just to make sure you understand her emotional essence. This is the kind of edifying parable about the elevation of the ordinary man that makes you get out of the cinema angry for being so awkwardly manipulated. The soft shoe of Hyddleston gives you a glimpse of how the common one can become extraordinary. The film that surrounds him, however, seems to be determined to make the extraordinary look as simple and banal as humanly possible.

Article published on June 5, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.

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