Beginners Review

 

My Review of Beginners.

Hey everyone so in celebration of Pride Month heres my review of the indie film Beginners. Starting Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent, and of course the late Christopher Plummer. 

The film focus on the character of Oliver whose sad over the death of his father Hal, he's now alone with just him and his dad's dog Arthur. Oliver goes to party where he falls in love with this woman named Anna whose an actress. The film also reflects on Oliver talking about his father coming out after his mother died and how his father embraced his homosexuality and became more open and accepting of himself, until his death from cancer. The film is really good and to me this one of my favourite indie films to be honest. Like the music score in this film is really good, the characters in the film are good as well like you can relate to them and their personal life and problems, I also love how this film uses pictures from different eras to describe what things were like back then.  

This photo of Nature in 1950s 

This is a photo of nature today. 

The cast does an amazing job in this film like Ewan McGregor does a great job playing Oliver, Melanie Laurent she does great job playing Anna, and of course Christopher Plummer who won an Oscar for this role was amazing as Hal. The film deals with how Hal kept his true sexuality a secret for so long and after his wife died of cancer he came out to his son. The film shows Hal becoming who he really is before his death like we see him get a boyfriend named Andy, joining Los Angeles Pride, be part of the Gay Community, and basically no longer be afraid to show who he really is. Now one scene I liked was when Hal and Oliver are talking about his mother and he asks him if he wanted her in his life or he just married so he wouldn't get arrested for being gay. Hal explains that he loved his wife and she knew he was gay but she loved him and he was grateful everyday for her being in his life because she made him happy. It's a great scene in the film. 

The dog in the film Arthur, is one of the best characters in the film it makes you want to get a Jack Russell. Like you have Oliver now taking care of Arthur but he has to bring him everywhere because the dog freaks out. As well its clearly shown that Arthur misses Hal, like all dogs do when their owner dies before them.

The film is actually inspired by director Mike Mills's own personal experience because just like Oliver his father came out to him after his mother died and five years later his father died. So it's basically him telling his own personal story in this film and he did a great job with it. 

This is really good film, it will make you happy, sad, but most of all its really good movie to watch on Pride Month. I give Beginners 8 out of 10. Give it watch.

Christopher Plummer 

1931-2021 

This review is also a tribute to the late Christopher Plummer.

One of the best Canadian Actors.