Wondrous Oblivion

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Audience Member This film features the beginnings of ideas, but thoughts are not carried through. The scope is too wide and the script and direction fail to carry it off. There's a strange flatness to emotional scenes -- such as someone warning of a fire and that people need to get out. Too often this has the strange energy and lack of authenticity often seen in an amateur stage production. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know (or care about) the first thing about cricket, but I loved this movie. It was a great story and had a point. It was cute and powerful-I would highly recommend. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an uplifting, feel-good movie with a happy ending that I'd feel comfortable sharing with my grandchildren. Even, to an American, with no understanding of cricket, there is sufficient excitement and relation to the idolization of sports heroes that is common to our sporting traditions. The racial and religious coloring, the demonstration of good instincts overcoming obstacles, the setting in working class England, the Jamaican and Jewish immigrants finding common ground in celebration of this most English of sports, all made for wonderful holiday entertainment. I thought that the sexual tension was resolved in fairy tale fashion, and the movie seemingly ending in a "they went on to live happily, ever after" theme, was just kind of fable that I wanted to believe in, this holiday season. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member A fine example of cinematic storytelling. Cricket is a theme and those who appreciate the sport will like this, but it's really about social change on several levels. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member jangan anggap enteng film ini,,walaupun hanya mendapat rating 3 bintang,,,akan tetapi tema cerita yg di angkat sangat mengena..,, memadukan 2 ras tertindas sebagai center utama film..,,di kemasnya pun tidak seperti drama "strongly moving"...film ini lebih dekat dengan keceriaan,,,... film ini mengingatkanku dengan film "billy elliot",,dmana sang karakter mengejar impiannya tanpa harus peduli dengan lingkungan sekitarnya..,, Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member The term "Coming of Age" has become somewhat of a cliché, but director Paul Morrison has given audiences such a well-crafted, beautifully-rendered tale, that an obligatory inclusion by this reviewer of the term will be quite forgiven here. Think: Air Raid Araby. It tends to be heavy-handed at times, but the spot-on performances carry the weight splendidly. In this PG-13-rated drama Wondrous Oblivion, a young Jewish boy (Sam Smith III) learns to tackle adversity in post-war 1940s England after his Jamaican neighbors teach him the game of cricket. A cross between Barry Levinson's American fable Avalon and the British hit Billy Elliot, Wondrous Oblivion wears its well-worn adversity theme like a badge...but, because the scenario is wholly original, not to point of being over-bearing. Rather, this import plays out breezily, stumbling only slightly when the story veers off into an unnecessary sub-plot featuring the boy's mother (Woof) and mentor neighbor (Lindo). Should they remain oblivious to this rub, however, moviegoers will enjoy two hours of near-wonderment. Bottom line: Wondrously told. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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