Stuck

A simple premise, executed efficiently, six problematic and completely different people involved in a musical debate, at the same time dramatic becomes fun and a very emotional ending, here we see that no one enters our life by chance, each one has a purpose to get in or out of it...

So! A very simple premise, and then so many connections and relevations, and SO much humanity! Yes, maybe that's what it is, the humanity of it. The heartfelt stories of those people.

And the characters. Now, a stuck underground with bright sharp inner light is a good place for character studies. The light helps too. The picture is so clear in this movie. Clear to see details in the faces.

And then the acting. And the people chosen for the movie. The characters chosen to be studied. The homeless guy is perfect. Hearing him speak reminded me of my time in the US. (even though I was in SF and not in NY, and that in the late 90s and 2000s). Reminded me of people I had met. Ok, the characters may be clichee, but then again, they weren't. Every one of them eas special too.

Plus it is a very original movie. A musical. Which somehow fit wonderfully in this movie. The movie is about different kinds of art in aw way too, anyway.

And the ending was wonderful too. Again, so much heartfelt humanity.

And maybe one of the messages is just that people are NOT cliche after all. That we really don't know one another and should ot judge at first sight.

In any case, a very good movie, simple and still there is so mich more to it.

You have to hunt to find this gem (literally, check R/T), which tries, and mostly succeeds, to be an honest but unifying force. Giancarlo Esposito's superb portrayal of a subway bum is the exact opposite of the simmering, fastidious heavy in the long running Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul series. Half the music is excellent, especially Giancarlo singing (a non- Patsy Cline) "Crazy". But the other half is Broadway sing-song boiler plate, which is why I didn't make it a 10.

Thanks so very much to Kathy Buck for bringing the movie "Stuck" to the Cameo Cinema in St. Helena. Stuck tells real life stories while the people are stuck on a NY subway train ... told partly thru song. It is a creative way to present serious topics with some surprises. Unfortunately, the movie needs a company to distribute it to the major theaters ...

The music would be a sound track that i would glad add with The Greatest Showman.