IMDb plot summary: A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
Directed by Mike Flanagan. Stars Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay, and Benjamin Pajak.
The Life of Chuck tells its story in three reverse-chronological acts, each revealing a new layer of an ordinary man whose life turns out to have cosmic significance. The result is almost epic in emotional ambition. The structure is one of the film’s greatest strengths, unraveling piece by piece in ways that constantly reframe what you think you’re watching. I'm not as convinced as I'd like that all the pieces fully cohere, though I do suspect this is one of those films that will need time to settle before it fully clicks. It does feature one of the most existentially terrifying sequences I've seen on film, at the end of the first third. I also love a non-musical movie bold enough to devote real time to full-on dance scenes. Even if I’m unsure about the whole, each individual section is impactful and absorbing, and I was never bored watching. I’ll need to sit with it, but it’s definitely a ride worth taking, and I suspect it might resonate more deeply the longer I let it linger.
📊 Ranked #810/4147 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 80
How it entered my Flickchart:
beat Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
beat The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
lost to Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
lost to Colossal (2017)
beat Music and Lyrics (2007)
beat Margin Call (2011)
lost to A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
beat 9 (2009)
beat Rise of the Guardians (2012)
beat Megamind (2010)
beat New York, New York (1977)
beat Ninotchka (1939)
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