Here

[Frank Cox]

It'll be deja vu all over again when answering the phone next week.

In 2009 I played a movie called It's Complicated. "What's playing?" "It's Complicated." "Oh, well could you just tell me the title?"

Next week, I'll be playing Here. "What's playing?" "Here." "Yes, there at the theatre."

Anyway, Here is a much better movie than I was expecting it to be. Based on the trailer and write-ups I've seen, it's not a movie that I would really have gone out of my way to watch but I needed something to fill in the week and it ended up being this Here.

See what I did there?

Except for the last twenty seconds so so, the whole movie takes place from one single camera angle that looks at single place, starting with dinosaurs and eventually getting to a house being built where you see into the living room. It's all about what happens right Here, dinosaurs, Indians, families, from whatever-BC to present day.

It's like watching a stage play in that the camera never moves which makes it unique in style from anything I've seen before.

The story is a lot more engrossing than the reviews make it out to be.

I won't be adding it to my favourite movies list but it's unusual and it is pretty good. It's a movie that you'd likely have to watch a second time to get everything out of, though.

[Mike Blakesley]

I was kind of curious about this one but the critics managed to talk me out of wanting to see it. Now I would love to see Here here rather than there at home, but I doubt we'll play Here here so I'll have to watch Here there.

[Harold Hallikainen]

We have not yet seen it, but plan to. I think it's an interesting concept. What is the history of this place, especially the house we now call home. Our house was built in the early 1950s. Who has lived here in the past 70 years? What happened here over that time? I wonder if the current residents of the house I lived in as a kid still find remnants of my ham radio and other projects.

The concept also reminds me of a great short animated film we saw years ago. It is time lapse image of a rock on a hilltop sitting on another rock. A vacant valley is below. As the film progresses, civilization overtakes the valley. Then it recedes. At the end of the film, the rock falls over.