This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
An Old Tale From Way Back When
Plot Overview
London 2025
backstage an acting company—diverse to a fault—is
being prepped for the show. White-haired, dignified looking
André De Shields plays a black Hermes, Greek messenger
god & herald. He'll be the emcee. His intimate salutations to
the cast bespeak the closeness they've developed working together.
Pans of the audience w/but a sprinkling of black faces show token
integration, if that.
During the course of the show, when things are
looking up for the protagonists, Hermes suggests that the
dancers capitalize on that optimism and follow suit. A White man
runs off with a negress. We presume they had got close through
their theatre interaction. How that will play out for them in
society at large will likely depend on the society at this time
& place, never having been partial to miscegenation.
In the ancient story, dirt poor
Eurydice (Eva Noblezada) had made a faustian bargain with Hades
(Patrick Page), which landed her in the bad place. Her
fiancé Orpheus (Reeve Carney) comes to rescue her but is
unable to until the devil's wife Eurydice (Eva Noblezada) persuades
him to let her go. But there's a condition along the lines of
authoress Amy Plum: “Kate, it's … complicated—.
We call ourselves revenants. …
¶“If you go back to the root of the word, it actually means
‘one who returns’ or ‘one who comes back’.”
(99)
Ideology
Basically, Eurydice is wearing the shoes of Madonna's “Material Girl” whose mantra should include, (Prov. 30:7) “Two things [that] I have required of thee; deny me them not before I die:”
She wanted an elaboarte wedding and deliverance from
a hellish workaday world. Orpheus a silver-tongued poet lied
claiming his song could call the elements to cough up an engagement
ring, wedding bands, and a marriage banquet. Poets being
historically poorly recompensed, the most he provided her was
a single rose somebody gave him. As for deliverence from
mind-numbing labor, it turned into vanity when having gone though all
the motions, he failed to meet the condition.
The proverb prays God, (Prov. 30:8-9) “Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.” Eurydice comes around to being satisfied if she has, “bread when I'm hungry, fire when I'm cold, and you walking beside me.” All that extra stuff would make her forget the gods, while abject poverty could tempt her to compromise with the devil.
Production Values
“” (2026) was directed by Brett Sullivan. Its screenplay was written by Anais Mitchell, based on an ancient Greek drama. It stars Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada and Patrick Page. Noblezada made a convincing Eurydice. She and Carney who played Orpheus are an item in real life.
The movie is rated PG. The stage is constructed in
three concentric circles that can rotate independently, and
the innermost can drop down out of sight. There are stair
steps in the back and a shallow balcony up top. This stage is very
dynamic. The actors use stem mikes for audio amplification in a
theatre acoustically designed for projecting trained voices.
At one point the musicians are introduced by instrument. An
ACT 2 transition is displayed allowing one to insert a time
gap on his DVD if he
so chooses. Runtime is 2 hours 21 minutes.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
The ending ain't Hollywood-happy but more
along the lines of a friend tellin' his disappointed buddy there are
more fish in the sea. For those inclined to modernized Greek drama.
Movie Ratings
Action Factor: Weak action scenes. Suitability for children: Suitable for children with guidance. Special effects: Well, at least you barely see the microphones. Video Occasion: Fit For a Friday Evening. Suspense: A few moments of suspense. Overall movie rating: Four and a half stars out of five.
Works Cited
Scripture quoted from the King James Version. Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.
Plum, Amy. Die For Me. Copyright © 2011 by Amy Plum. New York: HarperTeen Pub. Print.
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