The World to Come (2020)/A beautiful love story between two women80@katriel145d
Another movie that surprised me was The World to Come (2020). I remember I was looking for a romantic and sweet movie, and this one popped up in the search results. I'd never heard of it before, so I gave it a chance. It started off very slowly, but that didn't discourage me. I thought the movie was about two friends, one of whom would fall in love with the other's husband, starting a rivalry between them. But it turned out the plot was completely different.
I won't give you any spoilers, but I will say that it's a film set in 19th-century rural New York. The story is about two women marginalized by their marriages who find refuge and passion—and yes, guys, a lot of passion.
A forbidden romance in the middle of the forest. I loved the performances of the two lovestruck girls, played by Katherine Waterston (Abigail) and Vanessa Kirby (Tally). They are very complex characters who evoke a range of emotions: love, tenderness, anger, despair, and resignation. They are excellent actresses. Their performances are complex and profound. I found the ending very sad and even cried. It wasn't the ending I would have wanted, but that's how movies and real life are; sometimes things don't go as planned.
As for the husbands, their performances were very different. While one was understanding, the other was offensive and dangerous. They were two completely different personalities and greatly influenced the plot.
This movie is recommended for anyone who enjoys suffering for love. I give it an 80 because the ending is very sad and tragic. I prefer happy endings.
Led by powerful performances from Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as neighbors who find forbidden passion in their isolated farm lives, the film exudes a quiet poetry with scenes of longing glances and subtle gestures that speak volumes.
Adapted from Jim Shepard's short story, Fastvold's deft direction understands that censorship does not equal abstinence. The chemistry between Waterston and Kirby electrifies within the constraints, amplified by the cold natural surroundings.
Though not destined to be a blockbuster, The World to Come rewards those willing to follow its meditative pace, revealing complex truths about the immense human costs of repression through small, profound character details.
The climax left me ecstatic yet moved, having spent two absorbing hours witnessing the blossoming of a taboo love as nature reclaims scorched earth. A revelatory film that deserves wider recognition.
Mona Fastvold's The World to Come offers a sensual and evocative portrait of repressed 19th century sexuality in rural America through an intimate, slow-burning lens.
Fastvold establishes herself as a profound and sensitive filmmaker, capable of provoking emotions that one does not easily forget.
The World to Come received widespread critical acclaim, earning Vanessa Kirby a Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics.
Kirby and Katherine Waterston both received Independent Spirit Award nominations for their intense leading roles.
Mona Fastvold was justly praised for her sensual direction, which established her as a filmmaker of great caliber and capable of achieving great success.
Commercially, The World to Come found an arthouse audience against all odds, grossing $854,000 worldwide on a budget of $3 million.
›The World to Come | You are my city of joy@jauregui981168d
Prime threw this movie in my face yesterday and I decided to watch it just because, nothing like a lesbian romance in the 19th century to liven up a hot and unbearable afternoon. After watching the movie I put about 10 more lesbian movies on my list and I can say with full satisfaction that I love that this happened, because out of ten straight relationships, half of 1 one only ends up being decent, so no, let all the LGBTQIA+ movies come in my face, but completely erase all the straight romances that are forced inclusion and no one admits that it is because they don't even take the time to analyze them.
The World to Come is a poem made into a movie, definitely, and not literally because the original story the movie is based on is not a poem, but I hope they understand, hopefully they do. Abigail and Dyer live as an ordinary couple somewhere in the world, and little by little we learn about Abigail's feelings and thoughts through her diary, which we will listen to as she writes it, one ordinary day, like any other, they get to have new neighbors, Tallie and Finney, this being the beginning of many changes and discoveries for the lives of Abigail and Tallie, who develop a friendship that transcends love and desire, and live only to be together and enjoy their shared existence.
Prime me lanzó ayer por la cara esta película y decidí verla solo porque sí, nada como un romance lésbico en el siglo 19 para amenizar una tarde calurosa e insoportable. Después de ver la película puse en mi lista alrededor de 10 películas lésbicas más y puedo decir con plena satisfacción que me encanta que haya pasado esto, pues de diez relaciones heterosexuales, la mitad de 1 una solo termina siendo decente, así que no, que se vengan todas las películas LGBTQIA+ en mi cara, pero que borren por completo todos los romances heterosexuales que son inclusión forzada y nadie admite que lo es porque ni siquiera se toman el tiempo de analizarlos.
The World to Come es un poema llevado a una película, definitivamente, y no de forma literal porque la historia original en la que está basada la película no es poema, pero espero que entiendan, ojalá lo hagan. Abigail y Dyer viven como una pareja común en algún lugar del mundo, y poco a poco nos vamos enterando del sentir y pensar de Abigail a través de su diario, que vamos a escuchar mientras ella lo va escribiendo, un día normal, como cualquier otro, llegan a tener nuevos vecinos, Tallie y Finney, siendo este el comienzo de muchos cambios y descubrimientos para la vida de Abigail y Tallie, quienes desarrollan una amistad que trasciende al amor y al deseo, y viven solo para estar juntas y disfrutar de sus existencias compartidas.
I just had a fangirl moment when I finally identified Dyer, Abigail's husband, who is the amazing Katherine Waterston, as Casey Afflek, and I love him horribly, he has the perfect face of someone with a lot of trauma and who takes every breath as if it were his last and his first at the same time. Anyway, This movie could only get exponentially better if not only Abigail and Tallie had their lesbian romance, but if Dyer and Finney had their homosexual romance everything would have been glory and heaven for me, but that couldn't come to pass, I know, so I have to be grateful for what we were given and enjoy in my imagination everything that could have been.
I already said it above and I say it again, the poetic narrative that this movie has is unparalleled, they made a perfect mix between landscapes, feelings, body expressions and simple words that together form beautiful creations, during the whole movie I was having mental orgasms every time Abigail and Tallie talked to each other, or when Abigail talked about what she felt or what happened, the mastery of the simplicity with which they showed their feelings was incredible, and many times it wasn't even that they explicitly said what happened or what they felt, they just said in three words what they felt and that was enough for you to experience it too.
Acabo de tener un momento fangirl al finalmente identificar a Dyer, el esposo de Abigail, que es la increíble Katherine Waterston, como Casey Afflek, y yo lo amo horrible, tiene la cara perfecta de alguien con muchos traumas y que toma cada respiración como si fuera la última y la primera a la vez. En fin, Esta película solo podría mejorar exponencialmente si no solo Abigail y Tallie tuvieran su romance lésbico, si no que si Dyer y Finney hubieran tenido su romance homosexual todo hubiera sido la gloria y el cielo para mí, pero eso no podía llegar a suceder, lo sé, así que tengo que agradecer lo que nos dieron y disfrutar en mi imaginación todo lo que pudo haber sido.
Ya lo dije arriba y lo vuelvo a decir, la narrativa poética que tiene esta película no tiene igual, hicieron una mezcla perfecta entre paisajes, sentimientos, expresiones corporales y palabras simples que juntas forman creaciones hermosas, durante toda la película estuve teniendo orgasmos mentales cada vez que Abigail y Tallie se hablaban, o cuando Abigail hablaba de lo que sentía o pasaba, la maestría de la simplesa con la que demostraban sus sentimientos fue increíble, y muchas veces ni siquiera era que decían explícitamente lo que pasaba o lo que sentían, solo decían en tres palabras lo que sentían y eso bastaba y sobraba para que tú también pudieras llegar a experimentarlo.
I continue this review two days later because light problems have not let me exist, and those problems will continue, but that is not what this publication is about. There is something very important that this movie talks about, or at least represents, and that is loneliness and how human beings would like to share that loneliness with someone without the need to pretend to be something we are not just to be accepted and not bother the rest of the world. Abigil and Tallie came together through shared time where they got to know each other better together than they did apart, a type of bonding that is rarely seen and cannot always be taken advantage of as we would like.
Motherhood and grief will also be something we will see in the film, how many relationships fail to survive after the loss of a daughter and how they continue as a couple just for the habit of being together, although here that would not be the case, because religion dominated in those times and we will see how men rape women using the bible and the word of the Lord as an excuse, I thought I would not say it, but I hate men with my soul, but that is something that this publication is not about either.
Continúo esta reseña dos días después por los problemas de luz no me han dejado existir, y dichos problemas seguirán, pero de eso no es esta publicación. Hay algo muy importante de lo que habla esta película, o que al menos representa, y es la soledad y cómo los seres humanos quisíeramos compartir con alguien esa soledad sin la necesidad de pretender ser que algo que no somos solo para que nos acepten y no incomodar al resto del mundo. Abigil y Tallie se unieron a través del tiempo compartido donde se conocieron mejor juntas de lo que se conocían separadas, un tipo de unión que muy pocas veces se da y no siempre se puede aprovechar como se quisiera.
La maternidad y el duelo también va a ser algo que veremos en la película, de cómo muchas relaciones no logran sobrevivir después de la pérdida de una hija y de cómo se siguen en pareja solo por la costumbre de estar juntos, aunque aquí ese no sería el caso, pues la religión dominaba en esos tiempos y ya veremos cómo los hombres violan a las mujeres usando de excusa a la biblia y la palabra del señor, pensé que no lo diría, pero es que odio a los hombres con mi alma, pero eso algo sobre lo que tampoco se trata esta publicación.
Also, I have to say that I love Dyer not only because he was played by Casey Affleck, but because he is the demonstration of what a good person, beyond a good man, is capable of doing, he always knew that his wife was different, beyond that she would have an affair with a woman, if not that she liked to read and write, she liked to educate herself, and by that simple fact she would have already been a troubled and complicated woman who would get beaten up every day for doing things that waste her time instead of doing the tasks she was assigned at birth, at least according to the bible in this movie.
I thought I had said this before, but I haven't, so I'll say it here in closing, you don't know how many times I reread that I've written thinking I did get to say it. Anyway, while I love the story because it is more than just a lesbian story between two women in heterosexual marriages in a time where they would be killed for just looking at another woman with desire and it has a lot of other things that make it an excellent movie, I don't like it because it is one more of those LGBTQIA+ stories where the stereotype is mythologized that all stories belonging to our community must be full of traumas, secrets, rejections, more bad things than good, and no, although the film is from 2020, it is time for there to be more and more healthy stories where our representation is not a living trauma explained in more than an hour on a screen. Oh, and I cried a lot at the end, bye.
Además, tengo que decir que no solo amo a Dyer porque haya sido interpretado por Casey Affleck, si no porque es la demostración de lo que una buena persona, más allá de un buen hombre, es capaz de hacer, siempre supo que su esposa era diferente, más allá de que ella llegue a tener un romance con una mujer, si no que a ella le gustaba leer y escribir, le gustaba educarse, y por ese simple hecho ya hubiera sido una mujer problemática y complicada que recibiría golpizas todos los días por hacer cosas que le hacen perder el tiempo en vez de hacer las tareas que se le asignaron al nacer, al menos según por la biblia en esta película.
Pensé que había dicho esto antes, pero no, así que lo diré aquí para finalizar, no saben la cantidad de veces que volví a leer que he escrito pensando que sí lo llegué a decir. En fin, si bien amo la historia porque es más que simplemente una historia lésbica entre dos mujeres en matrimonios heterosexuales en una época dónde las matarían por solo mirar con deseo a otra mujer y tiene muchísimas otras cosas que la hacen una excelente película, no me gusta porque es una más de esas historias LGBTQIA+ donde se mitifica el estereotipo de que todas las historias pertenecientes a nuestra comunidad deben estar llenas de traumas, de secretos, de rechazos, de más cosas malas que buenas, y no, aunque la película es del 2020, ya es tiempo para que haya cada vez más historias sanas donde nuestra representación no es un trauma viviente explicado en más de una hora en una pantalla. Ah, y lloré mucho al final, chao.
›The World To Come / FILM REVIEW80@jcrodriguez1950d
Never before have wonder and joy been surrounded by so much sadness. Beautiful film about a forbidden love between two women in the 19th century. I was enchanted with this movie and I tell you my opinion in the post.
I never imagined that this movie would leave me with a deep sadness when I finished watching it. It tells us a love story, but because of the circumstances, the time and the two characters that star in the romance, it was impossible to have a happy ending.
I've said it in previous posts, I'm becoming an overly sensitive person. I got a little depressed after watching the movie. I can only imagine how difficult it was for people in times past to discover, feel and express love for someone of the same gender.
Today, there are still prejudices and societies that condemn that two women or two men can love each other. We have progressed, especially in most Western countries, but there are still places in the world where they must hide, as they actually live in a cage.
Awe and joy, is something the protagonist of the story says, at an important moment in the film. That moment has stuck in my mind, because some time after that Astonishment and Joy, there is only room for sadness.
In a town on the east coast of the United States in the mid-19th century, Dyer and Abigail are a married couple working on their farm, which doesn't produce enough money. They suffer the loss of a daughter, Nellie, to diphtheria, something that has plunged Abigail into deep sadness. She feels empty, watching her days pass in the monotony of a marriage and a life where there is no passion. Finney, a conservative and religious man, along with his beautiful wife Tallie, move to the neighboring farm. The two women strike up a friendship, Abigail will be impressed by Tallie and, as time goes by, it will be impossible to repress the love they feel for each other. The two women, trapped in their marriages, dream of being free, loving each other and knowing happiness.How long will they be able to be happy? How will they be able to free themselves?
The love story between two women, in an extremely conservative and religious era, both married to men accustomed to hard work, each trapped in the fate that befell her.
The film is visually beautiful, I was fascinated by the landscapes where the story takes place, both in the scenes that take place in winter and in summer. In every scene shot on location, it is impossible not to feel attraction for those vast landscapes, surrounded by forests and mountains.
But the magic is in the two protagonists, the two women who together find refuge, to forget for a while, all the unhappiness that weighs on them.
Abigail is the one who narrates the story. She is the character who evolves the best. A woman who once had big dreams, is self-taught, likes to write, is very shy. The pain of losing her daughter and feeling that she no longer seems to matter to Dyer, will cause her to resign herself to living the life she has been given. Doing housework and keeping the farm accounts.
Like thousands of women in that environment, she has no choice but to accept that she will never achieve everything she dreamed of when she was younger. Married to a man she once thought she loved, but in reality still didn't know what it was like to truly feel in love.
Her voice-over is present throughout the film, it is the story of her life, which she tells us in fervent words. Captivating us when she manages to feel true love, in every gesture, in every look, she transmits us that amazement, joy and sadness that makes up that forbidden love.
She is the opposite of Abigail, she is a more extroverted woman, she is more self-confident, ahead of her time. She is not shy, she is the one who takes the initiative, the one who takes the first step. Although she does not show or manifest what she feels openly, she has also discovered her true essence.
She is married to Finney, who is a religious and ungraceful farmer, but financially they are doing better than the rest. Tallie will let herself be carried away by passion and moments of happiness with Abigail, but in her eyes we can see that she is aware that it will be difficult for both of them to free themselves from the bonds of destiny.
The husbands of the protagonists of this romance. Each with different ways of looking at the world. They are secondary characters, but Dyer is the best developed, being a man of few words, but it seems to me that like Abigail, his heart is sad. Perhaps there is still some love for his wife, but he doesn't express it, he wanders through the story, like a farm animal, trapped in his world.
Finney was the character I liked the least, plus the actor playing him doesn't try very hard. Crude, conservative, a bit violent in temperament. He is the main threat to Abigail and Tellie's relationship.
It is for me, the most beautiful sequence in the whole film. The moment of the first kiss. Abigail and Tallie can no longer fight what they feel. Abigail is the one who reacts with more astonishment, because she thought that Tellie didn't feel the same as her. Very well shot scene, it manages to convey what we have all felt at some time, when we fall in love with someone and give that first kiss, which triggers so many sensations in us.
Abigail defines it as Astonishment and Joy, after years of calamities, in that moment she feels happiness. How long will that happiness last? That's what I asked myself in the final shot of that scene.
Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold is in charge of directing, this being her second film as a director. She debuted in 2014 with the film The Sleepwalker, with which she participated in the Sundance Film Festival. This time she offers us an impeccable work, with an elegant use of framing and smooth camera movements, subtly conveying the love and passion of the story.
I really enjoyed the direction, it has been seven years since her first film, it has taken her a long time to return to directing, but she is also a writer and actress. During all this time she has been involved in other projects. She wrote the screenplay and acted in the film Voz Lux, with Natalie Portman. She is co-author of the film The Childhood of a Leader and is currently in pre-production on a TV series. The filmmaker is Norwegian, but lives in the United States.
The director of photography, who does an excellent job with these beautiful landscapes, is Andre Chemetoff. He has experience in European cinema, as well as work for TV commercials and music videos. If you see the film and like his work, you can visit his website: Link
The music for the film was composed by British composer Daniel Blumberg, a composer who also dabbles in the art of animation. I loved the music of the film, emotional, warm and exciting. It encompasses all the emotions that the protagonists of the film transmit to us. I think this is his most important work to date, but I invite you to check his IMDB profile and see what other projects he has participated in.
This is an adaptation of a story by American writer Jim Shepard, working with award-winning screenwriter Ron Hansen, to make the screenplay based on the story he published in 2017. It should be remembered that Hansen was the one who adapted the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and he also specializes in writing novels of the western genre. This story has a lot of that genre.
The negative element.
I think many viewers will find the excessive use of voice-over narration annoying. Abigail's character, is the narrator and I felt overwhelmed at one point by the voiceover. This is cinema, it is moving image and a film should show, not narrate what we are seeing. In some scenes I did find the use of the voice-over important, but there were others where it was superfluous. It is the only negative of the whole film. But this does not detract from the other merits of the story. However, if you are one of those who lose patience with the voice-over narration, I do not recommend it.
Katherine Waterston plays the shy Abigail. Wonderful the work of this actress. I was captivated by her interpretation, she builds an incredible character, who with a simple gesture is able to transmit us a myriad of emotions. It is she who devours the screen.
She debuted in film with the movie Michael Clayton in 2007 and has not stopped working. Perhaps her face is not very well known, she does not yet have superstar status, but she has worked with great directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, Rifdley Scott, to name a few.
Although the younger ones will surely recognize her for being part of the Harry Potter prequel saga, alongside Eddy Redmayne. Not being as beautiful as other actresses, she may go unnoticed by many. Her talent as an actress is in her blood, she is the daughter of Sam Waterston, actor who won the Oscar for the film The Killing Fields. If you want to see her entire filmography, check out her profile on IMDB: Link
Vanessa Kirby plays Tellie, the woman who will mark Abigail's life forever. Kirby has a more secondary role, but she shows us again her talent. This last year has been great for this actress, recently nominated for a Golden Globe, she will surely be nominated for an Oscar for Pieces of a Woman. She is in a good moment of her career, after becoming famous with the series The Crown. She is an actress who is earning a place among my favorites. She is a rising star. If you are a Kirby fan, you will like this movie.
The male roles are played by Christopher Abbott as Finney, Tallie's husband. I saw this actor recently in the movie Possessor and find him very similar to Kit Harrington ( the Jon Snow from Game of Thrones) hahaha. He gives a decent performance, just like his cinematic twin, he lacks charisma.
The other maculine actor is Casey Affleck, playing Dyer, Abigail's husband. It's not Casey's best performance, but his character is better developed within the story. He is a fairly well-known star, character is secondary, but he played an important role in the making of this project.
Sea Change Media, owned by Casey Affleck, produced the film and screened it at last year's Venice Film Festival. It received a recognition award, the Queer Lion, which is given at that festival for the best film addressing LGBTQ issues.
I think the film deserved more exposure, especially I think Katherine Waterston deserves to be among the best performances. But the film was released this year, being distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
I liked The World To Come enough to recommend it. It is a beautiful love story, forget about prejudices, we are in the 21st century, it addresses the issue of love between two women at a time when it was inadmissible in society. Love is universal, regardless of people's preference.
A good story, with two extraordinary actresses, beautiful photography, music that complements every scene, a successful screenwriter and a star like Casey Affleck behind the project, are great qualities to see this film.
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