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A FARLEY BROS FILM
Growing up is a fairy tale in Super 8
SUPER 8: Written and directed by J.J. Abrams.
Cinematography, Larry Fong. Editors, Maryann
Brandon and Mary Jo Markey. Music, Michael
Giacchino. Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning,
Kyle Chandler, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffi ths,
Gabriel Basso and Ron Eldard. Paramount Pictures,
2011. PG-13. 112 minutes.
A
s in so many fairy tales, the young
hero of J.J. Abrams’ Super 8
is a boy without a mother. The
fi lm’s wordless opening scene tells you
everything you need to know about why
Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is fi rst seen
slouching alone on a swing. Indoors,
grave-faced adults murmur their concern.
You don’t have to know that Steven
Spielberg serves as a producer on Super
8 — and that Abrams has referred to him
as his “consigliere” — to see the thematic
lines between a fi lm like Spielberg’s
E.T. and Super 8. Abrams’ sly monster
movie skates along neatly, alternating
between relationship-focused moments
and the development of the fi lm’s central
mystery. That mystery goes whiz-bang,
all dark nights and wide eyes; the quieter
moments make the fi lm a success. Super
8 wears its heart on its sleeve as fully as
any Spielbergian adventure: It’s a fi lm
that loves fi lm, and has a loving, wry, self-
deprecating take on the obsessives who
make it.
Joe’s best friend, budding director
Charles (Riley Griffi ths), has a one-track
mind: his zombie opus must be done, and
“mint,” in time for a youth fi lm competition.
Each of Charles’ pals has a part to play: Joe
handles makeup; Martin (Gabriel Basso)
is the leading man; explosives fi end Cary
(Ryan Lee) does double duty as cameraman
and main zombie; and so on. Charles’
obsession with “production values” leads
the gang to a train station, late at night,
for a key scene that becomes all the more
important when an approaching train derails
right in front of them.
The train crash is Super 8’s greatest set
piece: massive, explosive, breathtaking and
peculiar, it overshadows all the action that
comes after, from the Jurassic Park-like
roaring that seems to come from nowhere
to the underground lair that recalls the
home of a certain nasty Lord of the Rings
enemy. Abrams’ plot is plenty familiar, but
the insult-laden banter among his budding
fi lmmakers keeps Super 8 feeling fresh
(though a certain failure of imagination
regarding female characters is as stale as
week-old popcorn). Rambunctious, snot-
nosed and foul-mouthed, the boys are
generally more concerned with not getting
in trouble — and with clever ways to
incorporate the post-train-crash military
presence into Charles’ fi lm — than with
the bigger picture.
To explore what’s really happening,
we have Deputy Sheriff Lamb (Kyle
Chandler), the classic do-gooder who
spends more time worrying about the
welfare of the townspeople than attending
to the well being of his own son. Lamb,
resourceful and stubborn, acts as the adult
audience’s stand-in, but this movie is for
the kids — for the boys in the theater
dreaming of the kind of adventure that this
big-hearted fi lm (and, maybe, the making
of it) provides.
Spielberg may have set the bar for a
certain species of modern male fairy tale;
his template gives Abrams the slyness,
the carefully timed reveal, the aw-shucks
sweetness tempered with brash humor and
the soft ending (rendered sledgehammer-
heavy by Michael Giacchino’s typically
sentimental score). But Spielberg didn’t
create the hero’s journey any more than
George Lucas did when he sent a farm boy
to save the universe. Abrams’ fi lm works
not because of its impeccable production
values (Charles would approve), its smart-
mouthed child actors or its copious use
of lens fl are, but because it does the same
thing myths do, and fairy tales, and fi lms
that become classics: Its adventure story
offers another glorious metaphor for the
incredible, terrible, ordinary, wonderful
process of growing up.
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