Kinds of Kindness
Kinds of Kindness
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With those peeks aside, Yorgos Lanthimos’s last film Kinds of Kindness, is worth it because he has indeed achieved artistic completeness. It is quite good, and while it may not be as restlessly and self-consciously visionary as her most recent film, ‘Poor Things, it is very much as good as it gets, the closest relative being Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. It is an expansive and sweeping toil that boasts a noteworthy cast which includes Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn.
Lanthimos is the director and co-writter of Kinds of Kindness, as his husband is Efthimis Filippou, with whom he wrote Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Kinds of kindness is an anthology feature that has all the same actors in it but in different roles in different vignettes. The first segment, “The Death of R.M.F,” revolves around a man (Jesse Plemons) who tries to redeem himself from a boss (Willem Dafoe) that calls all the shots in his life and stands for every bother to in a society that has no rules.
The second segment, R.M.F. is Flying, has a man Plemons who gets concerned when his wife Emma Stone, who had been missing for a time returns for she thinks she is an impostor. The last segment, R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich, shows a set of cults that tries to search for an exceptional person who can bring the dead back to life while one of the cult members Stone is getting at odds with her fellow cult members and the reason why she joined them.
First, within the context of all the parts, it is important to note that there is a story that combines all, but at the same time, the actors perform absolutely different roles in each of the storytellers: there are the simplest ways – ‘poor is a adynamous character she annoys scorbutic characters of the numerous families and is also wished by Collins’ or an ‘American Woman’ how a certain actor like Dafoe is an authority figure in the story, or how Stone and Plemons often even in some way opposite one another, or even sits which such factor in those who plays American western Pacific. The extreme Archer and Cheng Plus &), so these worries seem absent as Actors like Chau, Athie, Qualley, Alwyn and the like roles have these actors Turner in them are more of sand and jelly pie roles are rather.
These comprise smaller ones, such as how every plot centers around either files, new families, or new praying and socializing activities, which all compel one to surrender and offer oneself to another being. This is just the tip of the iceberg that symbolism and even the themes, Lanthimos relays.
This method of casting an actor in more than one role transcends cinematic as there are stories within the scene that emphasize on duplicates. The overall storyline of the second tale is about a husband who fears that the woman who claims to be his wife is actually an imposter, while the third tale tries to illustrate the cult’s clue of their person who can bring dead people back to life being one who has a dead twin.
Not only is it a treat for the actor since entire new personalities are adopted with only slight alternations to the beard or the hairstyle, but also tends to trigger the thoughts about how every story has its own unique arc but all of them collaborate in some points but do not touch. Sometimes it feels as though it is the same individual you are watching if its life would have transpired differently. You can’t help but hear the Shakespeare quote from as you like it:
However, these narratives do slightly manifest themselves as stratums focusing on the theme of duality and “others” with how they are intertwined. This consolidated character of R.M.F. is the only one who is played by the actor who assumes other roles as well. R.M.F. does not play a significant role in the story. He is marginal and at most appears in a glorified cameo on the fringes of the story. Instead, like every other character, he is a passive participant in the narrative of these characters who hold no power over their own plot. Here’s what’s unexpected: they are all quite “unimportant” in the plots “of” other people.
Anthology films are complicated because – and this happens quite frequently – it sometimes becomes a daunting task to have a common theme that can connect different short films. Patterns gradually begin to take shape and Lanthimos develops each story in interesting ways. It is a common practice to put all characters together and throw in stone and Plemons’ bodies but with time the emphasis of balance switches and is no longer the same. In the first segment named “The Death of R.M.F.”, Stone’s character is not present until the end of the story when Plemons is the center of attention. In the second story, “R.M.F. is Flying,” the two characters have nearly the same amount of time on stage, whereas, in the last segment “R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich,” Stone takes the lead in the center stage while Plemons leaves the scene by the middle of the story.
Also, with every new entry in each segment, the physical contact and sex gets pushed further. In the first segment there is a clear assertion about feeling boss about the time someone wants to have sex and in the last one the leader of the sect casually talks how he has sexual relations with every person. This feeling of progress in the developments, themes and, of course, the actors’ roles in turn progress each segment forward with this increment of momentum. This also ensures that large scale of how long the film is 2 hours and 45 minutes 24 minutes longer than Poor Things does not at any point prove too intimidating.
In this arrangement, as has been stated earlier, makes a reader want to know more and more, and this also is applied to the acceptable endurance level of the viewer. In the first ten minutes of every story, there is presented some idea of every story, something like ‘here is a strange story about how people can let work control their lives, a woman who grows apart from her husband, and a cult member and the expectations placed on her’, but then the actual stories mostly go in too different and unexpected way from what was brazenly hinted from the beginning, making every story about a lot more.
While overriding factors like Alex Garland’s recent Civil War insulating the audience from all sides unlike Kinds of Kindness does passionately fill every page with layers of symbolism and meaning so that each story can be radically different with many unveilings and clashing takes for the viewers’ and discussions. Turning towards Kinds of Kindness, it almost feels like a victory for Yorgos Lanthimos as a filmmaker.
Achievements of Kinds of Kindness believe it was almost impossible to follow Poor Things in terms of incredibly custom bright backgrounds and costumes supported insanely strong Oscar-worthy Emma Stone who was my kind of crazy Frankenstein Imagination that mainstream audiences yearning for monolithic nature of both summer blockbusters and traditional award seasons have been conjured up with. Smuggling Kinds of Kindness is not necessarily in the same slot for crossover potential (although Emma Stone’s dance moves were easily as jaw-dropping).
But still, it is an astonishing showcase of all the actors involved as they portray a range of characters much like how Lanthimos portrays as a director. Despite a less flamboyant style, the movie remains true to its absurdist tone and provides just as dream-like irresponsible images which James Lanthimos previous films feature.
The content of the film in question is also much darker and more upsetting, with disfiguring physical injuries, which can make some of the audience twitch and feel ill. While Poor Things overstepped certain limits in terms of depicting gladness, Kinds of Kindness focuses more on sadness and agony. Back in 2011, Sony Pictures promoted The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as the “feel bad movie of the holiday season”; and Kinds of Kindness could very well be labeled the feel bad movie of the summer movie season.
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- Genre: Comedy, Featured, Popular Movies, Top Rated Movies
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
- Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, Joe Alwyn, Hunter Schafer, Yorgos Stefanakos, Fadeke Adeola, Tessa Bourgeois, Kencil Mejia, Thaddeus Burbank, Suzanna Stone, Jerskin Fendrix, Nikki Chamberlin, Christian M. Letellier, Lawrence Johnson, Lindsey G. Smith, Kevin Guillot, Ja'Quan Monroe-Henderson,
