It's about the difficulty of marriage, parenting, and being somebody's child. Mitzi can tell that from watching the boy's first film, which employs multiple, dynamic angles to capture the crash, and uses editing to build suspense and set up visual jokes.īut this is not just a movie about somebody who's already good at something and gets even better at it. Sammy is a prodigy, and possibly a genius. The mother suggests that the boy shoot the trains crashing with his father's movie camera so that he can watch one crash over and over instead of bashing the trains until they fall apart. Sammy becomes obsessed with the sequence and asks for a train set, which he crashes in an attempt to recreate the scene, infuriating his father, whose takeaway is that Sammy doesn't appreciate nice things. One night, Mitzi and Burt take their eight-year-old son Sammy ( Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) to his first theatrical film experience, "The Greatest Show on Earth." It ends with a spectacular train crash that was created with miniatures. The patriarch, Burt ( Paul Dano), is a scientist who works for various tech companies and likes to shoot home movies. The matriarch, Mitzi ( Michelle Williams), is a former concert pianist who became a homemaker and piano teacher. Steven Spielberg's film about them centers on the conflict between artistic drive and personal responsibility, as well as the mysteries of talent and happiness. The Fabelmans are a middle-class Jewish family living in various cities in the middle of the 20th century.
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