Genius

Release Date: June 10, 2016

Starring Colin Firth as Max Perkins
Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe
Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein
Laura Linney as Louise Perkins

Directed by: Michael Grandage

Written by: John Logan based off the book by A. Scott Berg

Max Perkins is one of the most leading editors in the world. He has helped shape the books written by some of the greats, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway to name a few. When a book lands on his desk one day in 1928 he had no idea how much his world is going to turn upside down. A Pathological Writer, Thomas Wolfe could not fathom cutting down any part of his book to keep it short and get it to print. Feeling as he could never say enough to convince his audience what he was trying to say he had a hard time changing the script. The man behind shaping Geniuses in inspired to help this man's unique story. This is the story of a man't great recognition of geniuses and his endearing kindness, and friendship, to the geniuses that he meets.

By far the best film of the year. Every single little detail was created and help to shape this film into the wondrous film that it has become. There was not one part of this film, or my soul for that matter that was not touched by it's beauty. It's one of the very few films this year that I was so wrapped up in it that I wasn't looking for things to write about. I was literally caught up in the story and writing be damned!

First off lets start with the script. I would think that it would have to be hard making a movie about someone that general knowledge doesn't know about. The writers of this film deserve an Oscar Nomination for the greatness of their script. They made the story interesting, playful, fun, heart wrenching, and meaningful. They are the ones give the words the actors say in order to make you feel what they want you to feel. They have to make the pace of the movie never stray from it. They are the ones that gave this movie it's first breath of life and for that they deserve ever possible nomination.

The Cast was equally as great. When you can walk out of a theater and fell one, that you have actually met the character and have known them, and two, could not imagine any part be played by anyone else, you know you have seen greatness. That is what I felt with each character. Nothing short of perfection played by everyone. Firth was passive but very stubborn in his eagerness to help Wolfe get his books out. Law had me feeling the desperation to get the true meaning of his words on paper and not a "watered down" version of it. Kidman gave the perfect performance of a love hate relationship and not just with Wolfe. You really wanted to root for her and much as you wanted to root against her. You saw the beauty and the harm in the relationship that Bernstein had with Wolfe. You equally wanted them to last as much as you knew you wanted it to end because it was a bad fit as well. Linney you see her side of the situation as well. She wanted to be a great writer in her husbands eyes as much as she wanted to be a good actress. She wanted her husband to see the success that was possible in her as he did in some of his authors. Yet, you could see that she was here holding her family together when things got out of hand.

Then we have all of the designed departments. The people who really make a film come together. If a film doesn't have the right detail then the film won't work as well. They are the geniuses behind this film for they have to make an entire believable world on a few hundred feet of stage. They are the ones that set up the cameramen to make this world seem bigger than what is really it is. The costumes help to add the details into the film. The fastest way to tell what era that someone is in is by looking at their clothes. They set the fist tones of the movie to get into the right mindset of the film. They were beautiful and they matched each character perfectly. They were grandiose when they needed to be and simple in the same.

Basically, what I have to say about this film is that it's a must see, it's brilliant, and I take my hat off to it anytime.