SING STREET
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
Stars: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Strength: Story, Dialogues, Soundtrack
Weakness: Duration
Runtime: 106 mins
Rating: 4.5/5
Plot: Growing up in Dublin during the 1980s, a boy finds a getaway from his damaged family life by forming a band to impress a girl he is fond of.
Review: Conor is a 15-year-old boy who is struggling to turn the background noise of his parents' crumbling marriage into meaningful songs. His impromptu effort to impress the girl he likes by forming a band is the first exciting segment that starts off the excellently written film.
Director John Carney has an insightful ear for dialogue, an amusing and incredible eye for detail, and makes the movie very personal in a way that it is universal. The movie had a clear direction as to where it was heading.
Each character in the movie had distinctive roles and imperfect personalities that have been played out perfectly by the actors. Conor's elder brother Brendan provides the backbone to Conor both musically and fraternally, whose lost dreams and rich understanding of the world drives the 15-year-old's rite of passage. Even the surrounding cast consisting of eccentric bullies and overconfident band members have splendidly played their roles. Adolescence sits in the heart of the movie and it depicts the self-involved phase of life as it should be.
There have been many memorable sequences in the film; the silent moments of growing affection between Conor and Raphina, the band's chain of music videos, and a lot of other moments that have been composed in perfect harmony.
Sing Street brings together music, emotions, fun and the thrill of first love along with the poignant joyous moments that make this movie a personal one, and takes a very different take from the clichéd romantic stories in current times. The movie is a must watch for people of all ages.
Reviewed By Syed Ahnaf Sadeed
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