An underachieving gay writer returns home after many years to support his terminally ill mom… and face the rest of the family.
The type of American cinema that knows what to cut out, when, and how to balance feelings. Succeeding in comedy/drama is as complex as making a comedy/horror. And Other People will make you laugh as much as it will make you cry. Jesse Plemons and Molly Shannon make an excellent on-screen duet, and writer/director Chris Kelly allows them to shine and evoke all the intended emotions.
Tragicomedy describes all three acts with little things such as the milkshake order, which in its simplicity I found genuinely hilarious, or mum farting. The dialogues are authentic, and the performances are immense. There is so much I could say about connecting film theories on cinematic realism to independent American cinema, but I see no reason to do so. Therefore, I’ll keep this one shorter than usual and hope you get the chance to watch it, laugh and cry and, respectively, recommend it to as many people as possible to share your experience. Because, as we tend to think, real-life events such as the ones unfolding in the film are situations experienced only by… other people.
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