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Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here

Tale

A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.. Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire. It was originally published as a strip in the comics magazine "Raw" in 1989, and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014.. [from trailer] Richard: You know, if you like, you could spend the rest of the night here.

Features Toast of the Town (1948)

It’s an epic historical drama of a single geographic spot, probably in New Jersey, from prehistoric times to the present. It quickly deals with the dinosaurs and the Ice Age, and then in a jumbled fashion, addresses the pre-European era with an Indigenous couple (Joel Oulette and Ddannie McCallum), colonial times with William Franklin’s (Daniel Betts) new home, then in the living room of the house built in 1900 across the street from the colonial house. We meet the various families who lived in the house, including John (Gwilym Lee) and Mrs. Harter (Michelle Dockery), an aspiring airplane pilot until 1918.

Later, the African American Harris family, Devon (Nicholas Pinnock) and Helen (Nikki Amuka-Bird) live in the house

Later, we meet Lee (David Fynn) and Stella Beekman (Ophelia Lovibond), the fictional inventor of a reclining chair, who lived there until the 1940s. After the war, the story's primary subjects are Al (Paul Bettany) and Rose Young (Kelly Reilly), their son, Richard (Tom Hanks), and Tom's girlfriend and later wife, Margaret (Robin Wright ). Robert Zemeckis utilizes a single camera position that looks through the living room to the outside picture window once the house is built. We see joy, sorrow, disappointment, conflict, comfort, nostalgia, and pathos in the various lives lived in that space.

The prehistoric stuff felt pasted on

Sometimes, multiple eras are on the screen at the same time in framed screen segments. Contrary to some critics, I thought Robert Zemeckis's approach worked reasonably well for a holiday movie. There is no climax, but "Here" sympathetically observes lives unfolding. Not everything in the film was great.

The Indigenous segments needed more significant development or omission

The movie could have started with the house being built in 1900. I would have liked to know more about the Harris family. But this was vintage Tom Hanks as everyman, and Robin Wright was a good match. https://lg-consultants.com/2024/11/08/yellowstone-2018-hc-10bit-new-episode-download-via-magnet/