{"id":3434,"date":"2023-04-11T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T05:02:29","slug":"movie-the-fabelmans-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/movie-the-fabelmans-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: The Fabelmans (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Fabelmans
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2022
\nRating: PG-13
\nLength: 151 minutes \/ 2.52 hours<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg has been directing films for so many decades that it\u2019s actually a little surprising that the semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans<\/em> (2022) took this long to materialize. Because of his years of success as a filmmaker, I already knew some details of Spielberg\u2019s rise to the successful director that he is today. Granted, I\u2019m not sure how much of the family drama in The Fabelmans<\/em> is a direct influence on Spielberg\u2019s life or if he manufactured it for the movie itself. Still, it is interesting to see the early budding talent presented in this movie and be able to extrapolate to movies like Jaws<\/em> (1975), Saving Private Ryan<\/em> (1998), and Schindler\u2019s List<\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n

Perhaps my one qualm with this movie is that it\u2019s a bit too long. I understand the desire to show the entire life of Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) to understand the context of the origins of his filmmaking passion, but there could have been much shorter ways to show these moments instead of dedicating almost the entire first act to something that was much less exciting than the rest of the film. Even if it started in the second act, The Fabelmans<\/em> easily captures that struggle between family and living the life of a dedicated creative.<\/p>\n

I really appreciated the conversation about how pursuing a creative passion can really be a challenge for an individual\u2019s personal life. Similar to how the leads in La La Land<\/em><\/a> (2016) had to choose between themselves and their dreams, The Fabelmans<\/em> shows how having an additional way to communicate (in this case, via filmmaking) can sometimes break through barriers and expose hard truths. The unblinking eye of the camera often sees more than we want, whether the bipolar disorder and affair of a mother or how a bully sees themselves as the hero.<\/p>\n

A thoughtful if not slightly long autobiography of Steven Spielberg, I give The Fabelmans<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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