To strive, to seek
Three years after the biographical tape "Milk" about the first homosexual policy, director Gus Van Sant returned to the favorite themes of youth and death. The heroes of his new film Restless attract death, they are keenly interested in the surrounding world, but their existence is a shade of doom.
Enok (Henry Hopper) likes to attend the funeral of strangers, play with the Japanese ghost of Hiroshi in the sea battle, and at the beginning of the film he realizes that he also likes the mysterious stranger who also often appears at the funeral. The girl's name is Annabel (Mia Wasikowska), and her idol is Charles Darwin, which is quite ironic. The joy of reuniting the heroes is short-lived - Annabelle is sick with cancer, and she still has to live, according to the doctor, for about three months. When the finale becomes clear, the film is filled with desperate cheerfulness.
"Restless" is an ode to the moment to death. In the film merge the sad stories of the pilot-kamikaze Hiroshi, Enoka, who lay in a coma and almost saw death, and Annabel. For clarity, the picture mentions a bird that, waking up in the morning, is surprised that it is still alive, and performs a beautiful trill. Its something and remind the last few minutes of "Restless". Only rejoice every morning - people. Even death is not so terrible: it is either a holiday or a great honor (it's not for nothing that a Japanese pilot is mentioned). And the ghost returns to the living world to teach Enoch what is most important in life. He gives hope for the "return" of the dead to the material world.
The elements of mysticism present in the picture create a happy ending. But it is artificial, like the extravagant costumes of the main characters. But nature in "Restless" is quite real. Dimensional beauty of life captures the camera: camera work on long frames enthralls, but completely helpless in the dialogue. The sweet chatter of two teenagers resembles a tense duel, but the duet Hopper-Wasikowska compensates this disharmony. Young actors are surprisingly organic in a few crazy roles, even the time for Western film critics to repeat about the amazing chemistry that has arisen between them.
If the ambitions of Mia Wasikowska with each film are becoming more obvious, then the second role of Henry Hopper can be called even an opening. To get rid of the prefix "son of Dennis Hopper" to the young actor has not yet succeeded, but after the role of Enoch, such an opportunity loomed in the distance.
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