Armageddon Time – Il tempo dell’apocalypse: After the presentation at the Cannes Film Festival and the preview at the Rome Film Fest 2022, in collaboration with Alice in the City, James Gray’s film is now in the cinema.
He lives in 1980 New York Paul Graff (Michael Banks Repeat)he is a very good child at drawing but also at behaving like Bart Simpson: he likes to clown around with teachers and, more often than not, he doesn’t listen to i parents (Jeremy Strong And Anne Hathaway) with whom he does not have a good relationship.
The only member of his family he seems to get along with is the Grandpa Aaron (Anthony Hopkins)while at school he begins to make friends with Johnny (Jaylin Webb), a black boy who is also very rebellious and in love with his dream. A beautiful friendship but also very problematicboth for the prejudices of the time and why Paul and Johnny will only get into more and more serious trouble.
Mum and dad don’t know what to do with him anymore, and maybe not even grandpa Aaron will manage to avoid the increasingly plausible familiar “apocalypse”..
What works in Armageddon Time – The time of the apocalypse
First presented in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2022and following the eighteenth Rome Film Fest, Armageddon Time – The time of the apocalypseis in all respects an autobiographical feature film of his childhood James Graynot only because the director is also from Ukrainian Jewish ancestry but also because, in his various statements, he spoke of his commitment to transpose as truthfully as possible a part of his childhood.
A heartfelt account of not only what happened to him as a child, but also a real denunciated to the society of that periodnot too different from today’s.
In 1980 not only did we live constantly with the fear of a nuclear apocalypse (hence the explanation of the title) which according to many could occur even more with the advent of Ronald Reagan in the White House, but also in an America that is already very “Trump family”, that is racist, classist and hypocritical.
In the film the older relatives of Paul at dinner they do nothing but remember their origins and the fact that they had to emigrate because of anti-Semitic persecutionsbut at the same time I don’t agree that their little nephew attends a public school with African-American children and would like a better education for him, in a all-rich-white schoolespecially after they come to know that Paul she started dating, and getting into trouble with him, just with a black guy like Johnny.
The only family member to refuse these talks is grandfather Aaronwho will incite his little nephew to the end Paul to fight not only for his dreams but also against the injustices of society.
This is the story of the family Staple While how much right or wrong there is in these attitudes is up to the viewer to decidebecause it’s easy to call someone a racist, without stopping for a moment to think about the motivations behind these speeches or positions.
Maybe i Stapleexcept Aaron And Paulare they really racist or maybe they are more concerned about survival and their future: Society does not only discriminate against African Americans but also i poor and Jews. So it’s completely wrong to try to survive, maybe approxChanging one’s surname to avoid anti-Semitism systemic and hope for a more promising future for his own progeny, perhaps passing him off as a class that hasn’t belonged to him for generations?
And the same can be said ofparental education of Paul comparisons: Is it so easy for a father to remain indifferent to a son who is rude towards his family and teachers? Who starts smoking drugs, stealing all the time and even planning to run away from home?
Sensitive topics and nowadays more and more present in our thoughts and in our discussions and this is also the strength of Armageddon Time – The time of the apocalypse: a film that excites and makes everyone think, children, parents and grandparents, with the hope that we can all learn something from this story and maybe become a little better than we are today.
And the Italian version gives usaccidentally, one more emotionbecause unfortunately Armageddon Time – The time of the apocalypse is also thelast film in which Anthony Hopkins will have the voice of Dario Penne, given that the wonderful actor and voice actor born in 1938 passed away on February 15th. A last heartfelt gift for fans of this profession and quality cinema
Why not watch Armageddon Time – The time of the apocalypse
We have no obvious issues to report. The lack of interest in the film’s themes may be the only real limit to vision.
The film in cinemas from March 23, 2023 with Universal Pictures.
Director: James Gray With: Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Tovah Feldshuh, Ryan Sell, Domenick Lombardozzi, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Teddy Coluca, Andrew Polk, Dane West Year: 2022 Duration: 114 mins Village: Brazil, USA Distribution: Universal Pictures
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