{"id":40841,"date":"2018-02-12T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=40841"},"modified":"2018-02-12T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:22:49","slug":"the-public-emilio-estevez-2018-usa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=40841","title":{"rendered":"The Public (Emilio Estevez, 2018): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review by\u00a0Rasmus<\/span>\u00a0Nilsson<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0Viewed at the Arlington Theater, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emilio\u00a0Estevez<\/span>‘s\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0“The Public”\u00a0had<\/span>\u00a0the honor of being Santa Barbara Film Festivals’ opening\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0shown at the Arlington\u00a0Theater.<\/span>\u00a0The\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0is about a group of homeless people living in Cincinnati occupying a\u00a0public<\/span>\u00a0library trying to survive an unusual\u00a0cold<\/span>\u00a0winter.<\/span>\u00a0The Public, just like the rest of the famous directors\u00a0films<\/span>,\u00a0discusses<\/span>\u00a0a lot of<\/span>\u00a0challenging issues.<\/span>\u00a0During it’s 2 hours run time the\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0manages to\u00a0discuss<\/span>\u00a0a number of topics humorously and without becoming stale.<\/span>\u00a0These topics include:<\/span>\u00a0homelessness, importance of books, freedom of information, mental health, fake news, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast is filled with stars\u00a0such as<\/span>\u00a0Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Michael\u00a0K.<\/span>\u00a0Williams, Gabrielle Union and of course\u00a0Emilio\u00a0Estevez<\/span>\u00a0himself who is\u00a0playing<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0protagonist<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie takes place on location in a\u00a0public<\/span>\u00a0library<\/span>\u00a0that during business hours acts as a home for the\u00a0homeless<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0We follow\u00a0Stuart\u00a0Goodson<\/span>\u00a0(Emilio\u00a0Estevez<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0who is a librarian that has a very\u00a0good<\/span>\u00a0relationship with the\u00a0homeless<\/span>\u00a0patrons at the\u00a0library<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0One afternoon when the\u00a0temperature\u00a0is predicted to drop to a record low, the\u00a0homeless<\/span>\u00a0decide to “occupy” the\u00a0library by barricading the the doors<\/span>\u00a0in order to survive the night. Mr.\u00a0Goodson<\/span>\u00a0gets caught in the middle between the\u00a0patrons and the police led by\u00a0Detective Bill Ramstead\u00a0(Alec Baldwin) and is forced to find a solution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a\u00a0Q&A<\/span>\u00a0after the\u00a0movie<\/span>\u00a0Emilio\u00a0Estevez<\/span>\u00a0talked about the process of making the\u00a0movie<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0He<\/span>\u00a0said\u00a0<\/span>that<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>he<\/span>\u00a0originally wrote the script 11 years<\/span>\u00a0ago and\u00a0that<\/span>\u00a0he<\/span>\u00a0had slowly been\u00a0improving<\/span>\u00a0it<\/span>\u00a0along the way\u00a0waiting<\/span>\u00a0for the\u00a0right<\/span>\u00a0moment to\u00a0make it<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0The filmmaker also said that\u00a0he<\/span>\u00a0worked many homeless people during the\u00a0movie<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0give<\/span>\u00a0it<\/span>\u00a0authenticity.<\/span>\u00a0When asked if the\u00a0movie<\/span>\u00a0was shot\u00a0digitally<\/span>\u00a0or with\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Estevez<\/span>\u00a0answered that\u00a0it<\/span>\u00a0was\u00a0film<\/span>\u00a0digitally<\/span>\u00a0but in post-production they used a static filter to help tell the story by\u00a0giving<\/span>\u00a0it<\/span>\u00a0more intimacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though a lot of the topics were discussed very lightheartedly I thought the movie depicted the problems well and I strongly recommend it to everyone.<\/span>\u00a0Even to those who watch\u00a0movies<\/span>\u00a0solely for entertainment and typically are not interested in movies discussing social problems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review by\u00a0Rasmus\u00a0Nilsson.\u00a0Viewed at the Arlington Theater, 2018. Emilio\u00a0Estevez‘s\u00a0film\u00a0“The Public”\u00a0had\u00a0the honor of being Santa Barbara Film Festivals’ opening\u00a0film\u00a0shown at the Arlington\u00a0Theater.\u00a0The\u00a0film\u00a0is about a group of homeless people living in Cincinnati occupying a\u00a0public\u00a0library trying to survive an unusual\u00a0cold\u00a0winter.\u00a0The Public, just like the rest of the famous directors\u00a0films,\u00a0discusses\u00a0a lot of\u00a0challenging issues.\u00a0During it’s 2 hours run time the\u00a0film\u00a0manages to\u00a0discuss\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/233823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}