{"id":88340,"date":"2020-10-13T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-perfectly-acceptable-drama-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:00:30","slug":"a-perfectly-acceptable-drama-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-perfectly-acceptable-drama-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Perfectly Acceptable Drama \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Perfectly Acceptable Drama \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"Clouds<\/p>\n

The new film <\/span>Clouds<\/i><\/strong> is perfectly harmless, which feels almost required to mention up-front. The true story on which the film is based, derived from an online phenomenon, feels like it belongs to a different era of the Internet, when people could spend a day or two on social media<\/a> focusing on nothing more than a feel-good story. And those involved in the making of the film have uniquely close ties to the subject of the story, a teenage boy stricken with cancer who turned his terminal illness into a way to provide inspiration to others through song. <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> is nice and well-meaning, but also very much like its title, wispy and transparent and easy to look past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fin Argus plays Zach Sobiech, a high-school senior in Minnesota in 2012 trying to make the best of his days in school with the reality that he\u2019s diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that\u2019s slowly but surely ravaging his body. Zach is taking the reality of his shortened life in as good a stride as possible, finding joy in performing music with his best friend Sammy (Sabrina Carpenter) and hoping to go to prom at the end of the year. As the school year progresses and Zach\u2019s time becomes more finite, he winds up an unexpected YouTube sensation when his song \u201cClouds\u201d becomes a viral hit.<\/span>
\nJustin Baldoni (who some of you, including this reviewer, may know almost entirely from his role on the CW show <\/span>Jane the Virgin<\/span><\/i>) is no stranger to the material in two very different ways. Last year, he made his feature directing debut with <\/span>Five Feet Apart<\/span><\/i>, a romantic drama in which two teenagers stricken with cystic fibrosis fall in love with each other, even as they\u2019re instructed for medical and safety reasons to stay six feet apart at all times. (Talk about a film with an unexpectedly relevant logline.) But the wrinkle with <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> is that Baldoni is no stranger to Sobiech\u2019s story, having directed a documentary about the young man before his death in 2013. Behind-the-scenes footage of the documentary shows up during the end credits, allowing us to both see the real Zach and the effect he had on so many people.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this means that <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> is an inherently respectful film, one that\u2019s both low-key and unchallenging. (It is perhaps noteworthy that the book on which the film is based, written by Zach\u2019s mother, name-checks God and faith in its subtitle. That subtitle is omitted from the end credits, and the film isn\u2019t explicitly faith-based.) Like <\/span>Five Feet Apart<\/span><\/i>, there\u2019s a romance at the core of the drama, with Argus and Madison Iseman doing a fine job of portraying two sweet high-school kids in an impossible situation. Where <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> fails to truly lift off is in those key performances. <\/span>Five Feet Apart<\/span><\/i> had the benefit of Haley Lu Richardson as its exemplary lead performer; she all but forced the film to transcend its weepie foundations into a story whose emotions were vastly more earned.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that the performances from Argus, Carpenter, or Iseman are bad. The problem is that neither they nor the script<\/a> are able to elevate beyond being a straightforward tearjerker in the vein of <\/span>A Walk to Remember<\/span><\/i>. The way that music plays a major role allows this movie to feel slightly more distinctive, but Zach\u2019s transition into being a musical sensation \u2014 we see some archival footage, in which journalists like Katie Couric talked about the fast-paced popularity of his song \u201cClouds\u201d \u2014 only occurs in the final third of the 121-minute movie. The main adult actors, including Lil Rel Howery as a kind teacher, and Neve Campbell and Tom Everett Scott as Zach\u2019s parents, acquit themselves as well as the kids do, but the story never feels quite as special or profound on this side of the screen as it may have to those who brought this story to life. (Fans of <\/span>That Thing You Do!<\/span><\/i>, the 1996 film that served as Scott\u2019s breakout role, will appreciate that there\u2019s a scene in <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> that recalls the earlier film when our characters leap in delight when they hear their big song play on the radio for the first time.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Clouds<\/span><\/i> is\u2026fine. Baldoni has a solid eye as a director, and only a truly heartless person wouldn\u2019t find something even remotely emotional or sad in the plight of young Zach Sobiech. This is a film with incredibly noble intentions, and there\u2019s nothing exactly <\/span>wrong<\/span><\/i> with it. It\u2019s the kind of film that could easily grab an online audience much as the eponymous song did; <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> was supposed to be released through Warner Bros. before they sold it to Disney+ earlier during the pandemic. But while <\/span>Clouds<\/span><\/i> absolutely has its heart in the right place, that heart doesn\u2019t translate into a similarly winning story.<\/span><\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 5 out of 10<\/strong>
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