“Here”, the charm of exploring life in the flutter of the hummingbird.

Would you like to travel in time?

Let’s do it through "Here" (2024).

Do you suspect that some of the protagonists have taken "The Substance"?
No, keep calm.
"Here" uses a generative AI technology resource, Metaphysic Live, to reduce the age of actors in real time.

Once this point is clarified, let’s give free rein to nostalgia and enjoy without reservation this controversial and unique cinematographic proposal.

The plot, from its deep simplicity, finds in everyday life the way to eternalize being.
It shows us a static space, crossed by time, that will be shaped and transformed, like the protagonists of our history. The eternal and ephemeral, portrayed in the grace of a hummingbird.

Follow the life of a couple starring Richard (Tom Hanks) and Margareth (Robin Wright) in the different stages of their lives, living with Richard’s parents, Al (Paul Bettany), former combatant and current seller, y Ros ( Kelly Reilly), devoted housewife.

The characters' emotional transitions reflect their experiences and the strength of their bonds. Love, tradition and family are central. Each scene, located in the living room, is enriched by windows that relate other historical events, other lives. The time that "flies", like the hummingbird, and the essence of being that remains intact.

A narrative that uses the multi-screen effect to insert relevant aspects of the story, which merge and grow from there.

It’s not here and now. It is "Here", and families that gather to celebrate life, to be born, to grow, to merge in love, to overcome duels. Leaving the indelible mark of what built by and for love.

And, somehow, to be eternal in that love shared from ancestral traditions.

Space, life, love, being in time.

Eternity in an instant captured with mastery and brilliance in this scene that I need to show you, because I can’t forget it, and I know I never will.

Richard:

I know it’s late, I was just trying to catch the crescent moon. Honey, wait, can you turn towards the light?

Margaret:

Oh, I don’t feel well right now…,

Richard:

Honey, you don’t understand it, I just can’t stop looking at you.

The sacrifices that sustain generations

Richard left his dream of being an artist to become a secure provider, following in the footsteps of his parents, who also sacrificed personal aspirations to build a family and home.

Margaret gave up the idea of becoming a lawyer to take care of her daughter herself.

In this third generation, we can finally see the desire to obtain a degree and profession crystallized in Vanessa (Leslie Zemeckis), daughter of Margareth and Richard, thanks to the effort of the two generations that preceded her.

They are stories of life that intertwine, grow and develop with their successes and failures, framed by the warmth of home. People whose simple lives we find a certain degree of heroism. People like you and me. Hummingbirds in time.

The discovery of the rest of the story is in your hands, dear reader.

Technical data
Robert Zemeckis has created a unique and masterful work. The bet on a fixed camera, as well as the unique space in which "Here" (2024) is born offers us an innovative and fascinating perspective.
Objects and characters move through time in a complex multi-screen visual narrative.
The use of a range of warm colors -with the almost permanent presence of red- evokes a sense of home, joy and fullness. Every visual detail is imbued with meaning, generating an intimate and familiar atmosphere.
And while it uses advanced technology to tell this story, its bet is clearly traditional. It appeals to the deep values of family ties and unconditional love as a redemptive formula. It shows us the finitude of humanity through the agile flutter of a hummingbird and the immortality of values that really matter.

What remains immutable, as its fixed camera and narrative space, is the essence of being in time.

In the last few minutes, the camera will move away to show us "Here" from another perspective, almost as a farewell.

The Soundtrack, by Alan Silvestri,is a crucial component in narrative construction. It masterfully reflects the emotional tone of the characters throughout the different stages and development of their lives.

Written by Eric Roth, based on the graphic novel of the same name Richard McGuire.

Produced by Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Bill Block, Gary Goetzman and Jack Rapke.

For more data and trailers I leave you this link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18272208/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Final brushstrokes
A stationary camera. One single space. This fixed plane encapsulates the evolution of humanity, from prehistory to the uncertainty of COVID-19 in 2020.
The use of multi-screen resources reflects our era, fragmented and simultaneous, while past and present coexist in one frame. Each time leaves its mark, as every being.
"Here" is an emotional, intense, introspective, intimate and dreamlike journey through a multi-screen gaze as dizzying as the flutter of a hummingbird. Like our own lives. With an innovative, and in my opinion very appropriate, use of digital rejuvenation technology, in a dream, the timelines happily jump, revealing the human essence in all its fullness.
It invites us to reflect sincerely on our values, the importance of home, family, human finitude and love as a redeeming and transcendental element.
It is absolutely touching. It navigates with mastery the deep waters of being.
It causes feelings so intense that you can’t leave "Here" in the cinema. It will accompany you forever.
A beautiful and magical closing for this 2024 film season. We’ll see you here.

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