![]() ![]() The story jumps forward 20 years and reveals Kirsten ( Mackenzie Davis) is still alive, a leader in a traveling company of performers that rolls across the land, doing theater for fellow survivors. Much more than COVID, the pandemic that pushes its way across the globe in “Station Eleven” is almost instantly population-destroying. ![]() The tragic event forces Jeevan into becoming the guardian of Arthur’s child co-star Kirsten ( Matilda Lawler) because her regular “wrangler” is occupied. He’s the first one to rush to the stage and try and save the actor's life, which thrusts him into an unusual role. Jeevan ( Himesh Patel) is at a production of King Lear when he realizes that the lead actor, a star named Arthur Leander ( Gael Garcia Bernal) is having a heart attack. Definitely a story to be told but I would have appreciated it being told more objectively.Created by Patrick Somerville (“Maniac”) with a premiere directed by Hiro Murai (“Atlanta”), “Station Eleven” opens in Chicago on the eve of a world-destroying pandemic. The acting was fine but the directing and the cinemaotophy were poor in my view compared to much classier films I have seen in recent days. There was a lot which flattered to deceive. The story about Soekarno first marriage with Inggit was very vague to say the least and without having researched Soekarno life story (or wishing to) I am nonetheless curious if such a honest man as Soekarno was portrayed to be and so much in love with Fatma Wati that he felt the need to subsequently take other views which seemed in direct contravention of the principles he initially spoke in the first union of the Parliament in 1945 (the first speech of the Pancasila). ![]() Maybe Soekarno was an opportunist who ironically was in the right place at the right time and had the credentials to lead the nation - or maybe it would have happened anyway, not as portrayed by the film by careful manipulation of the Dutch and then the Japanese. ![]() With the exception of the lady playing Fatmawati who for me was the star of this film, I came away with the view, right or wrong, that Hatta was the engine and brains while the somewhat passive Soekarno was the voice and mouth-piece. ![]()
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