“If These Walls Could Talk…”

Here (2024)

This film is a trip through history from a singular perspective as witness to what happens through time.

Here is a 2024 American drama film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire. Echoing the source material, the film is told in a nonlinear fashion: the story covers the events of a single plot of land and its inhabitants, spanning from the distant past to the 21st century. During the film, the screen is often subdivided into multiple panes, presenting events from different time periods simultaneously. 

Wikipedia

At times the film is confusing, switching back and forth between episodes in the house’s history, but there is a certain eventuality to it: death. And that has the inherent lesson to be learned. People and events come and go, but the hummingbird goes on, doing what it does every day.

As an elderly man, Richard takes Margaret—who now has dementia—to the empty house in 2024. He reminds her of the time Vanessa, as a child, lost a blue ribbon from school, which triggers her memories of their shared life at the house. The stationary camera then starts to move, and it ends up on a shot of the original house from William Franklin’s mansion roof. A hummingbird appears in the final scene.

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