on super 8

Latest Spielberg production claims to be a nostalgic slide of a vision that a younger Spielberg himself envisioned and explored during his early, and to my opinion the peak years of his career.
SUPER 8 comes across as a collection of slides pertaining to different time periods where the remembrance is a tribute of cumulative work: a photoesque Montage linked by a narrative that revisits an early style that ultimately goes no where but back to the nostalgia left by the same lost style.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the film quite a lot, more than I'd like to admit; but the film feels scrambled, turned into a mechanical homage that aimes at many, but bullseyes at none. From the initial invokation of the GOONIES til the ET, gone wild and on steroid, climatic conclusion, the film felt like a mixture of everything that Spielberg has succeeded doing in the past: sense of adventure, brotherhood in the face of crisis, aparatic explosions, community, collective fear and horror.
To my taste, the film is a cinematic resume that pitches important works of Spielberg's career without caring for a coherent narrative.

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