A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY

 

Jeri Jacquin

Currently on Bluray and Digital from director Kogonada, writer Seth Reiss and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment comes the reality of love, loss and acceptance when on A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY.

David (Colin Farrell) is trying to get to a friend’s wedding and can only get a 1994 Saturn from a strange car rental company. Arriving on time, he meets Sarah (Margot Robbie), an interesting young woman who spends a lot of time teasing David about marriage and his accent. When he tells her he cannot dance, Sarah moves on for the night leaving David anguished that he didn’t try.

Driving home after the wedding, the car’s GPS begin to tell him that he needs to take a rest stop excit for a burger and he runs into Sarah! Spending more time teasing him, they both go to their respective cars but Sarah’s doesn’t start. She has no choice but to hitch a ride with David. And now the GPS is telling them to make stops along the way home. Each time they stop, one or the other reexperiences a moment in their life that made the biggest impact in their lives. Childhood memories, times of great loss and the trials of love in adulthood.

When the struggle becomes too much for Sarah, she begins to move back from David but it doesn’t stop him from expressing how he feels. After an accident, both of them just want to go home but the home they return to is not exactly what they had planned.

Farrell as David is absolutely stunning. Watching his character develop absolutely broke my heart from beginning to end. It is not often a character like David comes to terms with the deepest-rooted feelings a man can have about his life and it is all here on the screen. Childhood sadness, crushes and adult real moments of crush are all on the screen and it is breathtaking. The kindest heart hidden by real fears, Farrell has once again won hearts.

Robbie as Sarah is a woman who tries to openly be a free spirit when, in fact she is barbed-wire surrounding her and is it marvelous. Hiding behind sadness, she puts up a front thinking it will protect her from any pain life throws her way. Even with David, she makes it clear that she is untamable but that is the front most of us put up when the pain of rejection or fear of being “loved to much” is a possibility. I love Robbie giving her character many facets of fun, laughter and quick-fire humor but equally the sadness that won’t let her go.

Shout out to Waller-Bridge who had me cracking up absolutely and the thrill of seeing Kline take part in the twisted mayhem of the story.

Other cast include Lily Raba as Sarah’s mother, Hamish Linklater as David’s father, Chloe East as Cheryl, Jennifer Grant as David’s mother, Billy Magnussen as Sarah’s ex, Sarah Gadon as David’s ex, Jodie Turner-Smith as the GPS, Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the Cashier and Kevin Kline as The Mechanic.

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Special Features include Love’s Ever Shifting Landscape: A Relatable Romance, The Magic Behind the Scenes: Crafting the Journey and A Big Bold Beautiful Musical Number.

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY is a film that is so tissue worthy and I suggest you keep some handy. What is relatable on so many levels of the film is that we have all been there. Experiencing losses on so many levels at every stage of our lives. In those stages, the impact comes strong in each stage after that. It steers us in the direction of decision we make, both good and not so good, not taking into consideration the outcomes.

The film even, under its breath, suggests that perhaps we do just that. Open the doors we have all closed and look at the truth of it all. It may be painful but in that pain are the truths we might have forgotten and perhaps time to take in to make us whole. When it comes to love, that is exactly what director Kogonada pinpoints and brings unfiltered to the screen. It is not often that I sit long past a film is over and think about it in a deeper personal sense, I did with this film.

Farrell and Robbie took their characters into our deepest and darkest fears about being human and allowed us all to go on this big bold beautiful journey with them. Doors will never look the same.

In the end – relive your past so you can change your future!