Megalopolis 4K 2024

To begin with, it's probably worth introducing and explaining the context of what follows. Francis Ford Coppola - everyone has probably heard of this man who directed the Godfather trilogy, also known for Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Fight Fish and so on. He is now under 90 years old and for the last 40 years he has not filmed anything worthwhile. And it would seem that everyone has long forgotten about him and sent him to a well-deserved retirement, but this year this legend loudly returned to the news bulletins of all Cinephile media with his dream project.

“Megalopolis” is a costly testament, praised by many, that you probably haven't even heard anything about and weren't even going to watch - which is right. It's a movie about an ambitious architect planning to turn New Rome (as New York is called here) into a utopian fairy tale for future generations. But here's the trouble - the evil mayor absolutely disagrees with his plans. He tries by all means to eliminate his rival in the struggle for power in New Rome.

As you have already realized, Coppola is in the trend of recent years, as he made a movie for those who regularly think about the Roman Empire. The characters in the movie constantly quote Greek and Roman philosophers, juggle elegantly with phrases from patsanovskie publiki well and just blather on. And from that it is surprising that among so many star actors who starred in “Megalopolis” - there was no place for Jason Statham.

It is a thankless and almost pointless job to understand the stuffing of the picture. On the very surface there is the eternal (for movies) conflict of power/state and artist/creator. For example, it (the conflict) is brilliantly revealed by Andrei Tarkovsky in “Andrei Rublev”. Otherwise, Coppola seems to be trying to collect all existing artistic themes in “Megalopolis”, but it turns out to be at the kindergarten level.

Francis Ford Coppola has repeatedly said that “Megalopolis” is the project of his life, which he conceived back in the 80s. That's why it's especially sad to see that the movie turned out to be just a crazy fantasy of an old grandfather - chaotic, rambling and, unfortunately, not representing any artistic value. But the director created, probably, the most illustrative manual in the history of cinema on how to realize his megalomaniacal dream as badly and tastelessly as possible.