2021 Directed by Stephen Chbosky
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
Ben Platt Amy Adams Kaitlyn Dever Danny Pino Julianne Moore Amandla Stenberg Nik Dodani Colton Ryan DeMarius R. Copes Liz Kate Zoey Luna Isaac Powell Marvin Leon Hadiya Eshe' Julia Chen Myers Gerald Caesar Avery Bederman Swift Rice Tommy Kane Aymee Garcia Mariana Alvarez Amelia McArthur Dru Reel Tess Aubert Robin Segal Skolnik Ceci Balagot Zachary Willis J. Quinton Johnson Raquel McPeek Rodriguez Show All…
Дорогой Эван Хэнсен, 致埃文·汉森
probably the most remarkable thing about this film is that you really never get used to the fact that he looks like that. even in the late moments of this 137 minute film i was still jolted by occasional cuts to ben platt's puffy, doughy visage, newly horrified by his inland empire-esque facial contortions and body language that has been seen in cinema only once before: in f.w. murnau's expressionist classic nosferatu. his exaggerated hunch, hysterically twitchy hands, and latex-smooth prosthetics serve only to make platt, who was 26 years old when the film was shot, look like a man in his mid-40s. his casting surely ranks among the most misguided, disastrous decisions in cinema history, right around "john landis…
The plot is weirdly similar to the 2019 movie Joker, to the point where I kept waiting for Evan Hansen to murder someone
As Tarantino understood, King Kong can be read as a metaphor for the Black experience in America, of white civilization’s simultaneous fascination with, fear and exploitation of Africa and its natural and human resources. Dear Evan Hansen suggests that it can also be read simply as an allegory for what happens when a star Broadway attraction is unleashed upon the general public who can only react with revulsion and terror.
You’ve already heard (and probably made) all of the jokes about Platt looking approximately 38, but it’s impossible to overstate that beyond looking old he just looks like an insane person. Every close-up has “ticking time bomb” energy as he gazes at people the way starving cartoon characters watch their…
an uplifting, complicated coming-of-age story about teens dealing with/raising awareness of mental illness and coming closer together in the face of tragedy? or a horror movie about a sociopathic loser who straight up tortures a grieving family with aggressively maudlin, "feel-good" pop numbers that turn a literal dead kid into a branded, viral puppet because it increases his social capital?
this is joker for tenors
also, watching this as a early showing w a room full of theatre students was like the avengers endgame of musical theatre
