Tema: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)

Tripley:

Spoiler:

This isn't Adam Sandler's seminal classic Click; stopping time doesn't factor into the plot, but it absolutely factors into the story.

It's important to notice when Catilina stops time (and when time stops) after the first instance. It's also important to notice when he can't stop time, and who he's around when he can, again.


Catilina is kind of a control freak, but when he meets Julia, he loses that control. It's disruptive. Only when he fully accepts that love, that loss of control, then he can focus again. The scene with them on the suspended girders is about that. He regains his "power" by accepting her fully into his life.

Franklyn Cicero has similar issues with control. Fears of being left behind, fears of being dragged into a future he can't control, literally. It's not subtle because it´s a goddamn fable.

At the end, time stops for everyone but Catilina and Julia Cicero's child. Because the rest of time belongs to her, not her parents or grandparents. That´s it.

Megalopolis is more poetry than pure prose; you wouldn't expect to get the meaning of a poem just by the "plot points", and never would you expect the full meaning to be revealed on the first reading.

Iniciado por Branagh/Doyle

Tripley:

Spoiler:

This isn't Adam Sandler's seminal classic Click; stopping time doesn't factor into the plot, but it absolutely factors into the story.

It's important to notice when Catilina stops time (and when time stops) after the first instance. It's also important to notice when he can't stop time, and who he's around when he can, again.


Catilina is kind of a control freak, but when he meets Julia, he loses that control. It's disruptive. Only when he fully accepts that love, that loss of control, then he can focus again. The scene with them on the suspended girders is about that. He regains his "power" by accepting her fully into his life.

Franklyn Cicero has similar issues with control. Fears of being left behind, fears of being dragged into a future he can't control, literally. It's not subtle because it´s a goddamn fable.

At the end, time stops for everyone but Catilina and Julia Cicero's child. Because the rest of time belongs to her, not her parents or grandparents. That´s it.

Megalopolis is more poetry than pure prose; you wouldn't expect to get the meaning of a poem just by the "plot points", and never would you expect the full meaning to be revealed on the first reading.

la relación de ambos personajes para mí es la clave dela película, como juntos, pueden volver

Spoiler:

a controlar el tiempo y como su hija ya está más alla de eso. Y sí, Cesar Catilina se permite ser descontrolado gracias a Julia al igual que Cicerón se libera de sus miedos gracias a ella.

Saludos