The FabelMans Movie Honest Review
The Fabelmans, a middle-class Jewish family in the middle of the 20th century, are the center of Steven Spielberg's film. The film delves into the conflicts between an individual's artistic pursuits and their personal responsibilities, as well as the mysteries of talent and happiness. The family comprises of the matriarch Mitzi, a former concert pianist, now a homemaker and piano teacher, and the patriarch Burt, a scientist working for various tech companies who likes to shoot home movies. One night, Mitzi and Burt take their eight-year-old son Sammy to his first theatrical film experience, "The Greatest Show on Earth," which ends with a spectacular miniature train crash sequence. Sammy becomes obsessed with the scene and asks for a train set, which he crashes in an attempt to recreate the scene, angering his father. Mitzi suggests that Sammy shoot the trains crashing with his father's camera instead of bashing the trains to watch one crash over and over again. Sammy is a prodigy and a potential genius, as his first film employs multiple, dynamic angles to capture the crash and uses editing to create suspense and visual humor.
