The Fabelmans (2022) : Brief Review -

One of the greatest directors of all time tells his story before he became great. DON'T MISS THE CLIMAX. An original story of Steven Spielberg's teenage days with a bit of fiction and drama is all that makes The Fabelmans work for every cinephile who just loves watching movies. A boy who doesn't like watching movies is taken to watch Cecil De Mille's Oscar-winning "The Greatest Show On Earth" (1952) by his parents. I have also enjoyed that film, but I always wonder how it won the Oscar. It wasn't that great. But yes, the grandeur was such, just like Demille's standards. Well, the boy is appalled by the climax sequence of the train accident and becomes interested in movies. Not a regular interest, but now he wants to make his own movies. You know, I was thinking, if that not-so-great film (in my opinion) made Sammy (aka Steven) go wow about movies, how'd he react to Demille's greatest epic ever, "The Ten Commandments" (1956)? Why didn't Steve put this scene, yaar. Well, then there was Ford's classic with the two greatest stars of all time, John Wayne and James Stewart-"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). This clicked better than Demille's "grand circus saga" for me, as you know how good that film is. Then the story follows Sammy's family issues, school days, Jewish racism, and all that mediocre stuff, but at the same time you love watching that filmmaking within a film. The frames are full of art, and talk about the climax, man. I was shouting at the John Ford scene. "You wanna meet the latest director ever to live?" He asks and drops him off in the office. Then the pan captures all those frames of classic movies (I love all of them so much, ohh). Then, the man with an eye mask enters. I was watching the film at home, I screamed, and my mom asked, "Hey, what happened?" I was like, "You won't understand." What a freaking amazing scene that was, followed by an artistic taunt with the 'horizon reference" reframed at the ending frame. The great Steven Spielberg!

RATING - 7/10*

By - #samthebestest.