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We talk about science fiction thriller The End of Oak Street from the screenwriter and director David Robert Mitchell and the study Warner Bros. this being Mitchell's first project since Under the Silver Lake (2018).
The plot of The end of Oak Streetby its title in our region, is set in a small, quiet and idyllic American town in 1982, where neighbors often meet in the streets to share time with each other, while the little ones and pets play. This is how we meet the Platt family, made up of the parents, Denise (Anne Hathaway) y Greg (Ewan McGregor), and two teenage children, Audrey (Maisy Stella) y Brian (Chris Convery).
But beneath this surface, cracks hide: Greg spends too much time away from the family; Denise feels invisible and undervalued, and secretly works on a novel that reflects her life of dissatisfaction; Brian gets into trouble and Audrey keeps her own secrets.
Everything takes a radical turn, when inexplicably in the middle of the night, while some are sleeping and others are busy, the Platt family along with the rest of the inhabitants of Oak Streetare plunged into terror after a mysterious cosmic event transports the suburbs 150 million years into the past. There is no electricity, there is no water, but there are many, many dinosaurs. On a street that has no exit, they will discover – the hard way – that their fight for survival begins.
Mitchell sets the tone of the film with a quiet, low-key beginningwhich inevitably reminds us of the style of both his acclaimed and magnificent horror film It Follows (2014), like some installments of the filmography of Steven Spielberg.
After establishing our protagonists and the threat, Mitchell doesn't mess aroundy organically changes the tone showing fast-paced sequences where we see the creatures tearing apart neighbors of Oak Street remaining scattered throughout the streets, houses and patios, at the mercy of serving as food for other members of the clan.
Tension and anguish are built with effective camera workwith movements among the bushes where we are not able to perceive the horrors, either seeing barely part of them, or witnessing how it goes unnoticed by the characters. And since everything is contained within the streets of a neighborhood, danger is found at every moment, in the least expected places and situations.
The Platts' fight is not only against the creatures, but among themselves, as the previously mentioned cracks begin to become more and more evident, impacting not only Denise and Greg, but their children as well. Family problems reach their boiling point, giving way to the most notable sequences of The End of Oak Streetalong with the best performances of Hathaway and McGregor, as a fractured couple really trying to overcome internal conflicts and external threatsto keep the family safe.
Hathaway characterizes a woman with an enviable survival instinct, capable of quickly adapting to new and unthinkable dangers, balancing McGregor's – at times – desperate optimism that, in scenarios of such magnitude, with an “everything will be fine” without action, not much will be fixed. The chemistry and dynamism of the main quartet are the driving force of this great proposal for the “palomera” season of the yearwhich will be consecrated as the best dinosaur movie since Jurassic Park (1993).
Mitchell's script does not forget anything, there is history, heart, horror, adventure and emotioneverything moving at a good pace, and accompanied by a soundtrack by the experienced Michael Giacchino (Lost, Up, Spider-Man: Brand New Day) that will make your hair stand on end.
Mitchell filmed in IMAXand it did wonders on a budget of approximately $85 million.
In today's world that is interconnected at all times, a constant flow of information in the media and networks, trailers and glimpses, is increasingly rare to find a truly unexpected surprise in modern cinemathat's why It is a pleasure to report that Oak Street is definitely one of them.
Buckle up and enjoy this adventure.
See you in the theaters.
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TECHNICAL SHEET:
Original title: The End of Oak Street
Title in our region: The end of Oak Street
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Screenwriter: David Robert Mitchell
List: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Chris Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, Chris Coy
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson y Tommy Harper
Executive producers: Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Joanne Lee y Leeann Stonebreaker
Soundtrack: Michael Giacchino
Director of photography: Michael Gioulakis
Edition: John Axelrad
Classification: B
Duration: 1h 39min
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cinema release: August 13 (Latin America), August 14 (United States)
Source: https://cine3.com/critica-the-end-of-oak-street-anne-hathaway-ewan-mcgregor/
