I always thought that writing about yourself is tricky. Autobiographies demand so much organizing the timelines of your memories and picking out the most interesting things of your life worth telling. Autobiographies are always chronological, even though there are times when storytellers jump to the future and then go back to the past. Either way, autobiographies are a bit challenging.
“The Fablemans” is an amazing movie where the story told is a semi-biographical plot of Steven Spielberg, who is also the director of the film and who co-wrote the story with Tony Kushner.
The story is so amazing that you don’t even feel it is more than 150 minutes long. It felt like being inside the movie, where you can relate to different scenarios, family issues and how you need to persevere to reach your dreams.
It has been so long since I’ve been to the movie theatre and enjoyed a masterpiece that does not involve the usual box-office hit thematic like violence, sex or drugs.
Spielberg, one of my favorite directors, started this project in late nineties but due to the sensible information shared about his family, the movie shoot started in pandemic months (and when both his parents were no longer alive).
Even though it is a semi-biography, all names were changed and the fictious family of The Fablemans was created.
Spielberg lets us live in his personal world and how life was perceived by him as a young boy all the way to him being a young adult in search of making it in the film industry.
The Fablemans were characterized by Gabriel LaBelle, Julia Butters, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, Keeley Karsten, Seth Rogen and a wonderful cast.
The story is filled with authenticity of what the director wants to project to an audience engaged in a story of dreams and the road in life to reach them. The music, score and soundtrack of the story embraces the movie and makes you feel happy and, in a way, optimistic.
Universal Pictures has yet another amazing movie that is currently in movie theaters and will be available to view on demand after December 13, 2022.
Personal view: It would not be a surprise if it gets nominated for everything and wins most of them at the Academy Awards Ceremony on March 2023.
The Fablemans, a must watch movie for the the family to enjoy.
