Modern horror maestro Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are a match made in movie heaven, as Flanagan’s latest adaptation of King’s work, “The Life of Chuck,” powerfully proves.
—he’s first and foremost a dramatist with an abiding interest in the things that make us tick, bring us together, and haunt us both in the bright morning and the dark of night.), it’s a film that’s as sweet as it is scary, and whose frights are the sort that come from all-too-relatable fears about being alone, being apart, and being unable to hold onto the people and memories that matter most.
It’s all coming apart at the seams, and as Marty struggles with this dire state of affairs, so too does his ex-wife Felicia , a nurse at a hospital that’s so overwhelmed with the corpses of individuals who’ve taken their own lives that her unit is now known as the “suicide squad.” Amidst this apocalyptic turn of events , something even stranger is occurring: At a busy intersection, a billboard has appeared congratulating Charles “Chuck” Krantz on his retirement after 39 great years. By all appearances, Chuck is a middle-aged accountant, and it’s not long before this advertisement is additionally appearing on the radio and, even after the networks go dark, on television.
The crowd he attracts includes Lauren , a twentysomething who’s just been unceremoniously dumped by text and who’s so taken by Chuck’s performance that she joins him, wowing onlookers, Chuck, and herself in the process. The duo’s long-form routine is an exuberant expression of dreams and desires, and Hiddleston and Basso’s showmanship is infectious, providing the proceedings with a toe-tapping showstopper that conveys, wordlessly, the feelings at the heart of this saga.
Still, the writer/director captures his characters in empathetic three dimensions. Moreover, he wistfully celebrates the poetry of the little things that, in memory, become building blocks for who we are , whether it’s the sight of a grandmother shaking her hips and wagging her finger in the air to a song on the radio while she cooks at the kitchen stove, or a night sky filled with so many stars upon stars upon stars that it illuminates everything below it.
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