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‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis Turns Back the Clock on Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and It Ain’t Pretty
The 'Forrest Gump' duo reunite for Robert Zemeckis' latest experiment, 'Here,' in which appalling de-aging technology distracts from what matters.
Reuniting with “Forrest Gump” screenwriter Eric Roth and that film’s stars, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, director Robert Zemeckis clumsily replicates the fixed-camera conceit, while treating “Here” as an elaborate experiment. “Here” opens with fleeting images of the home where it all happens, glimpsed through a series of neatly framed rectangles, before whisking us back more than 65 million years to a moment when dinosaurs identified this clearing as a decent place to lay their eggs. McGuire attempted something comparably radical in his book, expanding the comics form in the process: In lieu of telling a sequential story, he collapsed various time periods into a single scene, allowing total strangers to echo one another’s thoughts and deeds within a shared space.
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