The movie named as Longing (2024) is a good mixture of comedy and drama genres and tells the story of a successful businessman named Daniel Bloch who meets his small town girlfriend after so long not seen here, we are talking years, this particular twist is a most interesting one, especially when Daniel learns that they have a child together, an experience that makes him undergo a life changing transformation as he spend more time trying to learn and discover what happen with his son that he never met and sadly is now gone.
The story line is crafted from an award winning feature film of a foreign language and the existing complicated Daniel’s business life alongside the emotional stress he experiences once he comes to know about his child are brought out very well. You have an intelligent, well dressed man who has grown up in the big city and then there is his rural background and his new role as a father but there is so much he can't do about it, he lost a huge experience, the tension is fantastic.
The main characters played by the actors Richard Gere who portrays Daniel Bloch and Diane Kruger as his former girlfriend, it is quite impossible not to acknowledge the chemistry as professional acting they had in this movie and the reuniting of their characters is touching, specially once she starts getting him up to date with the recent events. Jessica Clement, Marnie McPhail, and Tomas Sanelli all assist in the overall plot and provide a variety of characters and feelings for the story.
Platform: Limited (Internet)
Release: June 10, 2024
In terms of its themes, it is perhaps one of the most compelling and thought provoking works that deals with concepts like responsibility, personal identity and the role of human relationships. From a narcissistic millionaire to a man facing the consequences of his actions, the story is both believable and interesting, this is a classic story we have in today's society every single day, not that is hard for the mother and son but also for the father when sadly certain events come up that affect them all with not much to be done but could certain situations could have been prevented. The story also could leave the audience with quite a lot of questions as a big part of it would be left to the imagination of how Daniel son and the events that unfold really happen as he has to find out the truth of his son's life by himself and verify what others tell him, I'm sure at first everything is not what it seems, the impact of one’s actions and the subsequent accountability that has to be faced.
Another theme that has a lot of impact on the story is the transformative aspect of how relationships can change our lives and define who we are and what we want, we can even compare the two scenes in the movie where Daniel embraces his ex girlfriend and then his son on a similar way was deeply affected by how often relations influence our lives beyond our expectations, both men sooner or latter shape up by the relationships they had on their life with their once lovers.
Another significant aspect of the movie relates to the idea of identity, its development and changes due to interactions and personality transformations, the experience of the Daniel from a bachelor to a man who has to face the consequences of his past is an interesting look at how the concept of a person’s identity evolves.
Richard Gere as Daniel Bloch a successful business man, role played by Richard Gere, who is an experienced actor with numerous great films in his portfolio, has all the authority and confidence that are necessary for the main character, Daniel Bloch. These aspects of his performance are impressive because they describes very well the internal struggle of a selfish man who cannot escape his sins.
They casted a fairly accurate actress for the character, Diane Kruger as the Former Girlfriend, Diane Kruger, an actress who is not typecast and can adapt to different roles easily, pulls off the character of Daniel’s former girlfriend rather well, some of the reasons why she stands out in the film is due to her ability to act out various feelings and emotions and cannot be overlooked that she is a beautiful actress.
When I was looking up for information or reviews about this movie I could find online that there has been more negative than positive opinions about the movie although is nothing new to have the "critics and experts" opinion one sided while the audience express something different towards the opposite. It has been noted that some of the limitations the story had is focusing on the characters development stops the flow of the story basically to figure out what really happen with Daniel's son although I think this is the kind of drama where the audience will be more focus on how his parents, teachers, girlfriend and friends fell about Allen now that he is gone rather to what happen with him, this is not a murder case investigation movie, its a touching drama about a father that just find out his son, he never met is dead.
I think that Longing (2024) is a movie that shows the life aspect very well because it has a good combination of humor and tragedy, at least from what I could see from the trailer, given its known talented cast with exciting developed plot and the film’s themes of grief and self discovery, it will appeal to a certain audience who want to see a great film with an engaging story and moving performances, its not a movie for everyone after all drama movies are not for everyone.
Overall, it tackles the themes of responsibility, identity and the potential of change within family relationships to be profound and comprehensible, specially through the character transformation of Daniel from a selfish tycoon to a man who is overwhelmed by guilt, is a profound statement about the processes that take place in a man’s life when mistakes are made and yous just can't go back in time to get them fix.
In conclusion I believe this is a movie that has a good part of the story be left to the audience imagination, in my case I like that from a movie and at the same time hope it has some closure to both sides of the story how did Daniel's son died, if he had a good life and how the story that Daniel uncovers will affect him, I expect very few characters and probably a plot twist to the story.
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