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On Truth & Movies this week, The Rage virus rears its ugly head again in 28 Years Later, we check out Pixar’s latest, Eliot and finally, for film club it’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Joining host Leila Latif are Fatima Sheriff and David Jenkins.

 

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

 

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We first meet Elio Solis (Yonas Kibreab) curled up beneath a booth table of a din­er inside a muse­um. He’s a bit younger than he will be for most of the film, painful­ly shy and still reel­ing from the recent loss of his par­ents. His Aunt Olga (Zoe Sal­daña), recent­ly and unex­pect­ed­ly appoint­ed as his guardian, is strug­gling to adjust to her new role. While she’s momen­tar­i­ly dis­tract­ed by a col­league, Elio slips away and stum­bles into an immer­sive exhi­bi­tion on the vast­ness of space – an oth­er­world­ly encounter that will alter the course of his life forever.

What fol­lows is a deep obses­sion with the exis­tence of alien life. Though Elio is no longer shy per se, he remains social­ly awk­ward and has dif­fi­cul­ty form­ing friend­ships, not nec­es­sar­i­ly because his peers dis­like him, but because he unin­ten­tion­al­ly dis­tances him­self from them. He har­bors the belief that one day aliens will abduct him, but he’s reluc­tant to share. Sev­er­al rea­sons under­lie Elio’s intense long­ing to leave Earth: a desire to escape the painful mem­o­ries of being orphaned; a hope to encounter beings who defy con­ven­tion­al norms, and a yearn­ing to dis­cov­er a life beyond the ordi­nary lim­i­ta­tions of Earth.

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After get­ting into a fight, Elio is picked up by his Aunt Olga and reluc­tant­ly brought along to the mil­i­tary base where she works. Curi­ous and defi­ant, he fol­lows her into a restrict­ed meet­ing, only to dis­cov­er that aliens have sent a mes­sage to Earth. Hid­ing in a near­by rub­bish bin until the room clears out, Elio seizes the moment. In a burst of des­per­a­tion and hope, he records a mes­sage of his own, plead­ing to the life forms on the oth­er end and shar­ing his dream of one day join­ing their world.

Not only do the extrater­res­tri­als receive Elio’s mes­sage, but they also respond. Ful­fill­ing his wildest dreams, they abduct him and bring him to the Com­mu­ni­verse, a vast inter­plan­e­tary alliance home to count­less intel­li­gent species. But here’s the catch: because Elio was the one to answer their sig­nal, they mis­tak­en­ly believe he is the ruler of Earth. Eager to impress the coun­cil of ambas­sadors who gov­ern the Com­mu­ni­verse, Elio assumes the role and does his best to live up to the title. When Lord Grigon (Brad Gar­rett), a war­lord of the plan­et Hylurg, threat­ens the very exis­tence of the Com­mu­ni­verse and no one else dares to nego­ti­ate, Elio ris­es to the chal­lenge, deter­mined to pro­tect the one place he final­ly hopes to call home.

It’s no sur­prise that as a lit­er­al child, Elio would fum­ble the nego­ti­a­tions, only man­ag­ing to fur­ther enrage Lord Grigon. While secret­ly plot­ting his escape, he encoun­ters Glo­r­don (Remy Edger­ly), the silk-worm-like prince of Hylurg and Grigon’s son. Adorable, naïve, and impos­si­bly sweet, Glo­r­don is the polar oppo­site of his father. He agrees to return to the Com­mu­ni­verse, ini­tial­ly as a pawn in the larg­er diplo­mat­ic game that Elio refus­es to back down from, but what unfolds instead is a heart­warm­ing friend­ship between two young out­siders who, for the first time, begin to feel at home, by each other’s side.

There are moments when the film feels slight­ly clunky, as if cer­tain sto­ry ele­ments either need­ed more time to devel­op or should have been sim­pli­fied. This is most evi­dent in the mid­dle act, where the con­cept of the Com­mu­ni­verse, while imag­i­na­tive, begins to feel over­com­pli­cat­ed. The same applies to its visu­al design – some­times less tru­ly is more. The abun­dance of col­ors and shapes, though ambi­tious, ends up blend­ing into a styl­is­tic blur. That said, the ani­ma­tion remains as tech­ni­cal­ly impres­sive as audi­ences have come to expect from Pixar.

The first act of the film is excep­tion­al and joy­ous to watch. Just as com­pelling is any­thing involv­ing the friend­ship between Elio and Glo­r­don, which ulti­mate­ly becomes the emo­tion­al core of the sto­ry. What tru­ly makes the film spe­cial is the remark­able voice work from young actors Yonas Kibreab and Remy Edger­ly, who bring their char­ac­ters to life with strik­ing authen­tic­i­ty. Their per­for­mances are rich with pas­sion, vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, and emo­tion­al nuance, con­vey­ing every­thing from child­like curios­i­ty to pro­found long­ing. It’s through their voic­es that the film’s heart beats strongest, ground­ing its fan­tas­ti­cal world in some­thing deeply human and moving.

There’s an unde­ni­able charm to this film that makes it easy to be daz­zled by. From its deeply lov­able lead char­ac­ters, who you can’t help but root for, to delight­ful sur­pris­es like a per­fect­ly timed Talk­ing Heads nee­dle drop and effort­less moments of humor. But what makes it tru­ly spe­cial is its heart­felt explo­ration of uni­ver­sal themes like grief, lone­li­ness, and the deep human desire to belong. It’s the kind of sto­ry that stays with you, gen­tly remind­ing us that no mat­ter where we come from, we’re all just search­ing for connection.

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