Cavalcade is considered one of the most important films of its era. What are only three Oscar statuettes worth, including the winning of the picture in the Best Film nomination. However, I expected much more. For me, the picture turned out to be uninteresting and rather static. Although the plot is quite original.
The film focuses on memories of epochs. And according to the vision of the creators, there are several of them. And each of these is marked by certain events of a global scale, which in one way or another influenced not only the characters of the picture, but also the entire world history.
At some moments, you remember how we once waited for something special from the new millennium, meeting the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the picture, this is done by the characters that celebrate the new year 1900. An important cut-off in people's minds, which everyone perceives in their own way. But in fact, these are just numbers. How interesting, but only years later people, both in the film and in the reality of today, can realize this. Nothing dramatically changes with the onset of the next year. Just a calendar change.
Another important event that affects people's minds is the year 1901. This is the year of the death of Queen Victoria of England. For decades and decades, the monarch has been on her throne, people are used to this fact. And now she was gone. People are confused again, not sure about the future, thinking about it.
One of the most famous shipwrecks in recent history - the Titanic drowned on its first voyage to a New World. This event is also played out in the picture, once again demonstrating how apathetic people are about this. And as a pile of problems and negativity swirling into a snowball, the First World War comes, an event that probably could not have been worse for that period.
In general, the whole film is imbued with a sense of nostalgia and some disappointment with their lives by the actors. The creators of the picture are trying to convey these thoughts to the viewer, but they obviously do not reach me as the director intended them to be. The film is obviously boring, it doesn't catch on. In my opinion, it lacks brightness and fades just by passing by.
Writing a negative review is always more difficult. First of all, you need to understand for yourself what went wrong, and you didn't like the picture. "Cavalcade" remains an unsuccessful experience of getting acquainted with another Oscar-winning picture, a film that passed by without leaving something significant inside.
4 out of 10.
The film focuses on memories of epochs. And according to the vision of the creators, there are several of them. And each of these is marked by certain events of a global scale, which in one way or another influenced not only the characters of the picture, but also the entire world history.
At some moments, you remember how we once waited for something special from the new millennium, meeting the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the picture, this is done by the characters that celebrate the new year 1900. An important cut-off in people's minds, which everyone perceives in their own way. But in fact, these are just numbers. How interesting, but only years later people, both in the film and in the reality of today, can realize this. Nothing dramatically changes with the onset of the next year. Just a calendar change.
Another important event that affects people's minds is the year 1901. This is the year of the death of Queen Victoria of England. For decades and decades, the monarch has been on her throne, people are used to this fact. And now she was gone. People are confused again, not sure about the future, thinking about it.
One of the most famous shipwrecks in recent history - the Titanic drowned on its first voyage to a New World. This event is also played out in the picture, once again demonstrating how apathetic people are about this. And as a pile of problems and negativity swirling into a snowball, the First World War comes, an event that probably could not have been worse for that period.
In general, the whole film is imbued with a sense of nostalgia and some disappointment with their lives by the actors. The creators of the picture are trying to convey these thoughts to the viewer, but they obviously do not reach me as the director intended them to be. The film is obviously boring, it doesn't catch on. In my opinion, it lacks brightness and fades just by passing by.
Writing a negative review is always more difficult. First of all, you need to understand for yourself what went wrong, and you didn't like the picture. "Cavalcade" remains an unsuccessful experience of getting acquainted with another Oscar-winning picture, a film that passed by without leaving something significant inside.
4 out of 10.