Title - All Of Us Strangers
Production - Blueprint Pictures, Film4, Searchlight Pictures
Starring - Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy
Writer - Andrew Haigh
Director - Andrew Haigh
Release - 22 December 2023
There's something interesting about hiding the fantastical in the mundane and ordinary. Because this movie wasn't just a simple drama. As we follow Andrew Scott's character, we slowly realized what was happening.
But then a lot of the scenes with Paul Mescal kind of took too long and didn't quite serve the story as a whole, like the night club scene. I'm not fond of movies that employ these mundane sequences to set the mood or have a character show up more so that you would be able to know them better.
Also, I sort of figured out Paul Mescal's character very early on and was never convinced otherwise. Sure, there was another revelation later on but for the rest of the movie I was just waiting for the ending to come.
And Andrew Scott definitely deserved the Academy Award nomination for this role. He was fantastic is it. But I also thought Mescal was equally great and should have garnered one himself. What he did with his role in every scene was captivating, nuanced and different from everything I've seen him in so far.
Only the final act was interesting to me. And that was also where most of the powerhouse performances came in from all four cast members. There was also a gut-punch ending, but not as powerful as Aftersun - which Mescal was utterly heartbreaking in.
This was an adaptation of a book by Taichi Yamada, and that ending really felt like one of those messed-up anime storytelling that doesn't quite leave you after the movie was done.
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