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Have you seen Sing Street (2016)?

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endless gifs of movies that i love ONCE dir. John Carney, 2007

♫ Ten years ago I fell in love with an Irish girl. She took my heart. But she went and screwed some guy that she knew. And now I'm in Dublin with a broken heart. Oh, broken-hearted hoover fixer sucker guy! Oh, broken-hearted hoover fixer sucker, sucker guy! One day I'll go there and win her once again. But until then I'm just a sucker of a guy! ♫

#filmedit #movieedit #moviegifs #moviememe #cinematv #once #once 2007 #glen hansard #marketa irglova #the swell season #john carney #2000s #made by carolyn #swell season were a last minute addition to nff this year #as a lover of Irish Delight Glen Hansard i told myself i'd catch the start of their set before heading over to another stage #within 30 seconds of the first song there was no chance i was leaving lmao joke's on me!#and he brought out a young irish lad he'd just met to sing a solo song in the middle of their set and it was a highlight of the festival #anyway this led to me re-watching once last night #i sometimes forget about this being a comfort movie to me <3 #marketa irglova is i think what makes it work #and one of the reasons i think the movie is so much better than the stage production #which i have seen twice i think ?#the Girl actors in the stage show tend to go very manic pixie dream girl and can be kind of annoying #but marketa is so real and authentic and i just want to be her friend :')

Sing Street (John Carney, 2016)

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SING STREET, 2016 dir. John Carney

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GUYS GUYS GUYS EVERYONE WATCH POWER BALLAD NOW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ITS SO SO GOOD IH MGMT GID JOHN CARNEY MY GOAT (well you’re at itvwatch sing street and once too please)

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Sing Street

Conor is a young boy in 1985 in a poor family with parents on the verge of divorce, transferred to a school he hates run by a religious nut. But there's a girl he fancies, Raphina, and he's managed to convince her to be in a music video for his band. Now he just needs a band.

I was worried I wasn't going to enjoy this movie when it started up. The opening does a very good job at setting up the absolute misery that Conor lives in, from his home life to his school to bullies young and old. The film is also not shy about the kinds of things kids from rough neighborhoods would say about minorities. But then he starts putting the band together, and things start to shift.

The misery at the beginning becomes necessary to reflect the latter parts that are more lighthearted and optimistic parts of this movie, which is most of it. After Conor and Eamon start putting the band together, we start getting nicer or more interesting side characters, and the movie starts being about the joy of creativity.

And oh! what joy it is. From the first false start as a cover band to putting together songs and figuring out notes to the first successful live gig which proves... Interesting. It's a spoiler to say how it goes but I like it doesn't do anything entirely expected. I also like the music, and the film album will be going on the playlist shortly.

The characters are also wonderful. Conor is a compelling lead, Raphina is an intentional subversion or aversion of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the older brother Brendan is someone familiar and compelling, Barry is a bully with a backstory, and Brother Baxter, an asshole. I like the movie's theme that people aren't quite as simple as they at first appear, and have more going on. But also sometimes they can be jerks.

I do wish we got a little more focus on the side characters. Brendan and Conor are both going through their parents' tumultuous divorce, but their sister Ann gets no focus. Of the five principle band members and their manager, only really Conor and Eamon get significant screen-time, Eamon less so as the film goes on. Ngig and Darren get some moments near the beginning and some lines later on, but it's not a lot, and Larry and Garry get a few jokes and then zilch. I would have loved to see more of the film's character lenses on them.

The romance is nice. It's awkward, a little shaky, but earnest, and both participants allow themselves to be vulnerable to let it through. I don't think there's more to say to it than that, but that does lead to what I believe is the biggest weakness of the film: the ending.

To go without spoilers: the ending feels a little schmaltzy. It's not an unrealistic extension of the themes, far from it, but the tone feels jarring and out of place with everything else. There's a good metaphor my sibling pointed out about riding in the wake of a larger ship that ties back to an earlier theme, which I appreciated, but it felt like it was imitating The Graduate without understanding what makes that ending interesting.

I don't think anything in this movie is great or awe-inspiring or even, really, new, but it's a solid coming-of-age story about a guy in a band making songs for the girl he likes. And what's not to love about that?