Someone recommended me to watch Manchester by the Sea last week, but Fuiyooh... I watched it the day it was released. So, let me bring the whole story in a brief review!
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(Left) Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges
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This Best Actor and Best Original Script Oscar Winning Film wasn't that Magnificent for me at first. I was in 9th Grade when this film was released, a big baby who know neither value nor good film was. Yet, I kept rewatching this each year to finally understand what this film is trying to offer.
Well, I don't think Manchester by the Sea is a film
For me, it's more likely to be a vlog of an extremely broken human with an even more wrecked plot, and that undoubtedly is what makes it such a beautiful piece of art. Manchester by the Sea.
It's exactly what makes the film so goddamn genius, real, and authentic. It is exactly what individuals exist daily, and simply it's poured beautifully into each character of the film. The emotion, the plot, it was everything.
Next, this is what I absolutely like, this movie is nowhere near a linear, tried and tested narrative storytelling style. It strips itself from the basics of filmmaking.
Lee Chandler was an example of an anti-mainstream character
When we see a movie, it usually portrays how a lonely desperate individual can eventually own hope. But, here, in this film, the character stays on ground zero. Even if he knows what he will do for Pattrick, the director put his life on a cliffhanger—it's hard to decipher when and how he's really going to recover.
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Chandler is even more disturbed and such a melancholic protagonist as he started off his life which seems to become more tragic in the present than in the past, that's something different, and that is what makes this film powerful. His life isn't altered at all, it is portrayed as is. Depression, post-traumatic, stress, mental illness, and devastation cannot be solved in a span of 138 minutes. They are prone to stick with you for life. This is how we accept reality.
The relationship between dialogues was just perfect
Again, Lee Chandler, the whole film director made us guess his life. Whenever you feel like Lee Chandler is going to get better, change his mind, and say yes, he doesn't. He only has three-word sentences to say to everyone around him, not more, not less. His silence gives away all the answers. You never know what's bothering him. You can never decipher what he's feeling and I love that about this character.
Lee Chandler is the depressed artist: the family guy who has so much love to offer, but no one to shower it on. That trope is what hooks us onto him.
Pattrick is extremely energetic and has so much comment on, so much to offer to the conversation but no one to handle him. Both of them are exceedingly similar because they want to love, they want to care for people around them but their aggressive dispositions tend to collide with each other resulting in absolute chaos. Their relationship is an embodiment of the phrase "drama queen" but again, that's what makes them hold on together.
Manchester by the Sea captures death, loss, and loneliness in a very intimate and familiar way, especially via the visuals and sound design. Manchester by the Sea is definitely not your 10/10 cinematic classic, but it hits harder every time you go in for the next viewing. This film romanticizes pain, you are going to comfort in pain and depression.
-Nabiilah
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