No one will read this given the title but I have no other way to introduce this movie...... "Marjorie Prime" is rather odd, to say the least but it's actually pretty good and worth watching, has a good cast and a good premise and is less strange than so many other movies out there right now. Seriously, the Oscar winning movie of 2017 was about a mute woman who falls in love with a sea creature. Yes, it was a nice fairy tale but tell me how that's any different than "Marjorie Prime" which just imagines that there could be holographic people who invoke memories of the past for soon to be dead people. Seems OK to me.
And it is OK. As this film moves on, more dead people seem to appear but you don't really know that until they say something that outs them as dead. But it is never a negative thing, all the holograms are kind and they just want to help. Wouldn't it be nice if that could be the reality once our minds start to deteriorate? That a clear copy of someone from our past was there to help us?
Maybe this is a movie that resonates with my generation: we have all buried our parents (or will in the next couple of years) and don't want to be left out on the closeline to flap in the wind when our time comes. It would be nice to have a stand-in for someone we loved to help us go gently into that other goodnight.
I liked this movie, I liked the cast, the characters and the idea that the past and the present don't have to be so far apart. As Faulkner said "The past is not dead. It isn't even past." That's part of what this movie tells me.
It's on Amazon Prime now. Check it out.
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Found Marjorie in our library. Thanks for the recommendation.
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