'Suburbicon' Review
'Suburbicon' Review 2.5/10
Welcome back to our film review blog! Now before starting, we’d just like to say thank you and we hope you liked our first week of reviews! So if you have not realised we are a couple, S & B, and during week day’s we are going to be doing individual review’s and on weekend’s we are going to be doing a couple review and this is our first review together!
We viewed “Suburbicon” on Tuesday, for our ‘monthiversary’ and it is a rare occasion when we both actually agree on something and we both thought that this movie was the mother of all ‘fast food’ movies. Although it’s filled with great names like Matt Damon and Julianne Moore it lacks the most important thing in a movie, which is an interesting and captivating story.
During the film you could definitely see traces that are present in other films written by the Coen Brothers, keeping in mind that “Suburbicon” is an adaptation of a script that the Coen Brothers wrote many years ago. You could feel that the customary dark humour written by the Coen Brothers was significantly toned down by George Clooney which led to it making a mess of the whole comedic side of the film.
We felt that neither George Clooney had time to mature the idea he wanted for the film and in what direction he wanted to go and neither did Matt Damon had time to get to know his character and really perfect it, he seemed rushed and lacked his usual talent. The actual character that seems most complete and finalized is Rose and Margaret as they are both played by Julianne Moore, she had a sort of silly innocence to her that went along with the character she performed. Additionally, Noah Jupe playing Nicky, the family child, is a great actor and we believe that he has a great future ahead of him.
Also the genre of the film is Comedy, but we just found all the twists and turns of the plotline foreseeable and it took out the humour from the beginning, meaning that it doesn’t seem like much a mystery.
We think that the biggest error of the film was the lack of connection between the storylines during the movie, as one of the storylines includes the Meyers family moving in to the neighbour, now due to it being set in the 1950s, the movie depicts the racial segregation and prejudice that existed. Nevertheless, the fact is that if that storyline was removed from the film it would not change the main storyline, so the inclusion of that had no true connection and it didn’t actually have much of a reason to be included. Of course, any film that portrays the 1950s has to include the civil rights movement that existed, yet it has to be done properly and has to have a basis and a real connection to the film, and not just used as a prop.
Lastly, to end on a good note, the set of the movie and the neighbour they live in is absolutely great as it includes the over exaggeration of the bright green grass and the white picket fence, as well as the perfectly symmetrical houses and the ‘identicalness’ of everything and the sweetness of it all just makes it a perfect idea of what everyone believed the 1950s looked like in American. Also bringing a sort of satirical note to the film, this saved the film a little bit.
Thank you reading our review and see you in Aruba!* ;)
Signed, S & B
*Aruba, is a little reference to an ongoing joke in the Movie Suburbicon
Suburbicon Production Company’s - Black Bear Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Huahua Media, Silver Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures
