When it comes to Netflix movies, one has to wrap disappointment beforehand. The Danube may be banned from titles we’ve barely been able to watch lately from the streaming provider’s full evening work. The Army of the Dead, The Woman in the Window, According to the laws of the Wild West, The Strike Team … In vain, these films came of all kinds, for some reason we peeled our faces away from them.
Then out of nowhere on November 12th tick… does Netflix know it?
The film is the story of Jonathan Larson, a New York man who has been working on the musical and is expected to turn his life around for eight years. The hero lives his life in ruins, in a canteen, and in his spare time he welds his rock band Superbia. Jonathan puts his entire youth into a dream, while his childhood friend Michael (Robin de Jesus) finds him somewhere halfway, gives up acting, and goes to an advertising agency for big money.
A Tick, tick…Boom! It treats Larson’s life as a real person with real problems. The man sought success in a science fiction musical based on George Orwell’s 1984 works that preceded his life. Creating the Civilization of the Future is about the people who live clinging to the TV screen and watching the daily lives of the rich and the chosen in the box. The film has repeatedly stated that people do not fully understand the concept, and the producers do not see the revenue or the potential for much interest in it.
It is worth noting here that we are in the 90s, when the science fiction genre was not yet thriving. And Jonathan Larson drinks his ugly juice.
The movie stars Andrew Garfield, who perhaps brings the best picture of his life. A Tick, tick…Boom! An interesting mix in which the conversational realistic and dreamy musical scenes alternate. On the other hand, this procession is not shocking for a moment.
Jonathan approaches us because he is a sensitive breathing man with violent shocks. Sometimes he even thinks about giving up his art and even sells his soul to a big company. The confrontation between art and the capitalist world is very important throughout the film as the latent AIDS crisis unexpectedly spurs Tic, Tic…Boom! Filled with the most tragedies.
After so many mediocre and weak films, Netflix has finally put on the table candid, upbeat, and beautifully orchestrated work.
A Tick, tick…Boom! A musical is about how someone makes a musical. Then another one…and another one.
Because creative life is like this, there is no stopping, the writer has to write and hope that his next work will most likely gain the attention of the public. That’s what one character after another says anyway, and it makes a lot of sense when uttered as a kind of arse poetry.
We’ve known Andrew Garfield is a sensitive artist so far, but he’s really revealing his soul here. In addition, the supporting actors also give excellent performances, and even pop star, Vanessa Hudgens, is cleverly hidden in the production, which she doesn’t have much to say, but her voice sounds terribly good throughout.
Creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, has created a brand that lasts…Boom! It might later become a cult movie. The photography is average, but the songs included were so good that we can get a smooth beat from them, and we’ll replay them in a few days.
For some reason, the Hungarian audience did not discover the musical for themselves, it is not in the top 10 of Netflix, although it deserves the attention of the audience. Behind the musical scenes, there is the deep message, powerful acting and human tragedy that characterize this film. And the life of Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35 with the premiere of the major work of his life, Rent, is a story worth knowing. Even if it’s a tick, tick… Boom! Just give a slice of it. Jonathan had quite a bit of time, but in the end he lived with it.
A Tick, tick…Boom! It is also available on Netflix with Hungarian subtitles and dubbing.
