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Live is life, common sense media reviewers.

Bullying, drinking in engaging coming-of-age dramedy.

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Coming-of-age movie uses structure of "hero's jour

While rough around the edges, the five young teens

Movie shows five teens growing up in Spanish count

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First kisses. Brief nudity (male buttocks) when sw

Strong language throughout. "F--k" often used. Als

Characters drink from a Coca-Cola bottle.

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Parents need to know that Live Is Life is a 2022 Spanish coming-of-age dramedy. This "hero's journey" centers on five teens in the Spanish countryside searching for, among other things, a flower that they believe will save one of the boys who's dying of cancer as well as the father of another of the boys, who…

Positive Messages

Coming-of-age movie uses structure of "hero's journey" to explore importance of taking risks in life. Friendship.

Positive Role Models

While rough around the edges, the five young teens look out for each other, display acts of courage that go beyond the usual coming-of-age moments (first kisses, asserting individuality, etc.).

Diverse Representations

Movie shows five teens growing up in Spanish countryside during a mid-1980s summer. One teen is dying of cancer, another is struggling because his father has been in a coma after an accident.

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Violence & Scariness

Bullying. A lead character and his friend sprint away from a group of bullies who pursue them through streets and alleys of a large city. Later, he is bullied by teens on motorcycles who run him off the road on his bike until he falls into the lake below. Later, lead character and his friends fight back, including throwing a boomerang at one of their heads; bloody head wound. The bullies later respond by shooting a rifle at them, throwing their bikes into a lake. Fistfight at a party.

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First kisses. Brief nudity (male buttocks) when swim trunks are pulled down while the lead characters are swimming.

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Strong language throughout. "F--k" often used. Also "a--hole," "s--theads," "chickens--t," "bulls--t," "d--k," "pr--ks," "bastards." Middle-finger gesture.

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Drinking, drugs & smoking.

Teens walk past heroin addicts shooting up, some passed out with needles in their arms, one thought to be dead. Teens break into a vacant vacation home and loot the liquor cabinet -- pass around a bottle of whiskey and smoke cigars. Beer drinking at teen party. Adults smoke cigarettes, drink wine.

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Parents need to know that Live Is Life is a 2022 Spanish coming-of-age dramedy. This "hero's journey" centers on five teens in the Spanish countryside searching for, among other things, a flower that they believe will save one of the boys who's dying of cancer as well as the father of another of the boys, who has been in a coma after an accident. Expect bullying: The lead character and a friend run through a large city at the end of the last day of school with several teens pursuing them. Later, the lead character is run off the road and into a lake while on his bicycle by a gang of teens on motorcycles. The lead characters and these bullies later face off in skirmishes throughout the movie, including moments where one of the bullies fires a rifle at them, bikes get thrown in the lake, and the main characters retaliate by hitting a teen in the head with a boomerang (some blood shown). Teens get into a fistfight at a party. The lead characters encounter heroin addicts shooting up, shown passed out and seemingly dead with needles in their arms. Teens sneak into a vacant vacation home, raid the liquor cabinet, and take turns drinking whiskey while smoking cigars. Adults smoke cigarettes and drink wine, and there's drinking at a teen party. Strong language throughout includes "f--k." The film also features first kisses, as well as brief nudity (male buttocks) when swim trunks are pulled down while the lead characters are swimming. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In LIVE IS LIFE, Rodri (Adrián Baena) is a young teen who, once the last day of school has ended, leaves the big city with his family to spend the summer in the countryside with his grandparents. Like previous summers, he also will be spending his days with his best friends -- Garriga, the twins Alvaro and Maza, and Suso. The day after Rodri returns, on Midsummer's Eve, these five decide to go on an adventure in which they ride their bikes into the mountains in the hopes of finding the rare flower that they believe will cure Alvaro's terminal cancer and bring Suso's father back from the coma he has been in. Along the way, the teens get into skirmishes with a gang of teen bullies on motorcycles, sneak into vacant vacation homes, and confront the fact that they're growing up. While their adventure takes them to an epic party hosted by Garriga's dream girl, they also get more than they bargained for after riding through a down-and-out part of the region. As they search for the flower, Rodri and his friends learn the importance of taking risks in life as they try to navigate the first challenges of getting older.

Is It Any Good?

This is an engaging coming-of-age dramedy with enough story and acting talent to overcome the familiar aspects of this "hero's journey." Live Is Life tells the story of five young teens in the Spanish countryside who are spending one last summer together. They go on a quest of sorts, and what separates this movie from so many others with a similar story is that this happens to be a very good one.

For instance: While it's set in the mid-1980s, there's a refreshingly light touch to the nostalgia. Unlike other period movies or shows that rely too heavily on abundant pop culture references to see us through ( Stranger Things , cough cough), Live Is Life -- aside from the mullet haircuts of the bullying teens, infrequent pop songs from that time, and an ironic prophecy of a future where there will be wireless phones that also function as computers -- focuses more on the story and evolving relationships among these five teens. There's nothing groundbreaking about the use of this genre (coming-of-age) and form (hero's journey) here, but what matters most is how effectively the filmmakers use these to tell a good story. In that context, this works.

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Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : July 18, 2022
• Cast : Adrián Baena , Juan del Pozo , David Rodriguez
• Director : Dani de la Torre
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Drama
• Topics : Adventures , Brothers and Sisters , Friendship , High School
• Run time : 109 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : February 17, 2023

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This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Live is Life and contains spoilers.

From our review : Rodri, is a restless schoolboy desperate to escape the shackles of the classroom and can’t wait to rush into the welcoming arms of Summer and the opportunity to catch up with his friends. Once reunited with his ‘Gang’, they devise a plan, to go on a hiking trip, camp out overnight and pick the leaves of a local flower, rumored to have magic restorative powers which they plan to give to one of the gang, Suso’s Father, who is in a coma following an accident.

After the party, Alvaro confronts Sioux the biker, telling him that whilst he may or may not be dying, he at least knows that he is loved by his family and friends. Sioux looks as though he might engage Alvaro in a fight, his brother Maza leaps into action and finally gets to use those Karate skills of his and beats up the bully. 

After the fight, the boys take Alvaro to the woods to rest and regroup, still carrying the baby. They resolve to get the flower and reaffirm their commitment to face it together, always. 

They make a fire and make their wishes, which leads to Rodri throwing his school report in the fire, to the amusement of the others.  

Suso finds, and unfolds a piece of paper that reveals that in 10 days, Alvaro’s arm will be cut off, Maza explains that his brother doesn’t want them to know and just wanted one more day of carefree fun with them. We don’t know if he’ll be okay.

Day breaks and the boys are on the hike to collect the flower with mythical properties.

They put the flowers in the whiskey they stole from the house with the pool and agree to give Alvaro their shares, as he needs all of their combined strength. He takes a slug of the whisky and they plot their return to real life, this time in style. They steal a tractor and ride it all the way home.

On their return, they first visit the hospital to drop off Baby Hope to ensure that she gets the best start in life and deliver the magic potion to Suso’s Dad. 

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After depositing Hope in the hospital along with a note, they make their way to Suso’s Dad’s room where he remains in his Coma.

Suso pours the whiskey into his mouth with the help of Maza, and the rest of the boys step back to give Suso some space. Suso speaks to his Dad and pours his heart out, telling him that he loves him and that he doesn’t want to lose him. He hopes the magic potion works because he’ll be lost without him. 

At this moment, we see Suso as he is, both a frightened little boy and young man shouldering the responsibilities of an adult. The other boys appear to share this revelation and reflect on the realities of their own situations. 

They make their home and the boys beak up, Garri hands out his precious trading cards in a gesture of goodwill and another symbolic way to ‘put away childish things’. 

Finally, it’s just Rodri and Suso left. Suso reassures his friend that he’ll be okay, and reminds him that whilst intelligence is a gift, kindness is a choice. They embrace and all go their separate ways.

Rodri returns home and decides to face his parents and confront his academic failures.

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Directed by Dani de la Torre, Live is Life is a Spanish coming-of-age drama about a group of friends who spend one last summer together. The film stars Adrián Baena, Juan del Pozo, Raúl del Pozo, David Rodríguez, and Javier Casellas, and is available to stream on Netflix from today.

In the movie it is 1985 and teenage boy, Rodri, sets off on vacation with his family. The destination is his grandparent’s home, where he has spent many summers previously and has made a collection of friends in Álvaro, Garriga, Maza, and Suso.

Since they last saw each other, things have not been good for a couple of the friends. Suso’s father has had an accident and is on life support in hospital, while Álvaro is battling cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.

Aware that life is beginning to change quite rapidly, but keen to maintain their more carefree existence a little longer, the group decide to enjoy a couple of days of fun. They take to their bicycles, hit the open road, and embark on one final adventure.

Their goal is to seek out a flower which they are told has medicinal/magical properties. They believe the flower could help improve the health of Suso’s father, and they won’t give up on their quest until they’ve found it.

Along the way they play football, swim under waterfalls, and get in trouble with a local gang. They also share some unforgettable moments and have some of the best times of their lives.

*Looks off to the distance, while reminiscing about the past*

Think back to when you were younger; and think back to the long hot summer that you can just about picture in your mind’s eye. It was a time when the sun was forever shining, where no one expected anything of you, and when days with your best friends seemed endless and joyful.  

Ask most people of a certain age (i.e. anyone over 30) and they will tell you it was the greatest time ever. If they could go back to those more carefree days when they were a kid, they would, and they’d do it in a heartbeat.

But unfortunately, time machines don’t exist, and there is no physical way to go back to the days of yesteryear. However, thanks to a movie like Live is Life , it is possible to be transported back to the past through the magic of cinema.

And if you’re looking for a way to return to days gone by, where everything was simpler (and beige) then Live is Life can certainly accommodate your needs. The good news is, it’ll keep you entertained for a good couple of hours, and you’ll enjoy the virtual trip back in time too!

Similar in tone and style to such films as Stand By Me (1986) and The Sandlot (1993), Live is Life is an engrossing, nostalgia-inducing, boys’ adventure picture. It is a movie which harks back to the past to tell its story, and focuses its attention on the bond between five friends who are beginning to move away from childhood.   

Throughout the course of the film, they learn new things about each other, they react to new experiences, and they grow and develop as people. They also showcase what it is like to be a kid on the cusp of adulthood (both the good and the bad), and they take the audience on an unforgettable adventure.  

Live is Life is very much a coming-of-age tale and a celebration of youth. It is also a story of hope and determination, and as someone who wishes he could return to the past, and more specifically to those pre-adult years, I found it to be thoroughly enjoyable.

While watching Live is Life , I laughed, I felt emotional, and for the most part, I spent some time reminiscing. I loved every moment of the film, and found it to be engaging, captivating, and a sheer delight to watch.

The young cast are all perfect in their roles, the film is well-written, it is beautifully shot, and the soundtrack is great. The whole thing comes together in just the right way, to offer a pure shot of nostalgia, while at the same time it tells an important story.

If you love films about those long-gone summer days, you have a thing for coming-of-age films, or you simply want another excuse to return to the 1980s, then I recommend Live is Life . The movie is sure to whisk you away to another time and place, and it will take you on a journey that feels real and very familiar.

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Live is Life (2022) review: Beautiful film about the bonds of friendship

Live is Life is a Spanish movie that crafts the story of four friends who meet after a long time and decide to have a day of adventures. However, their adventures bring them a lot of unexpected events, but they all stick together.

Rodri has just shifted back to his hometown, Galicia, with his family. Upon reaching, Rodri immediately goes to meet his friends Garriga, Maza, Alvaro, and Suso.

The boys decide to spend their Midsummer’s Eve having an adventure in the mountains. Suso tells them about a magic potion that can be made using a magic flower that grows on the hills, only at dawn and on Midsummer’s Eve.

Suso wants to make the potion for his dad, who is in a coma. However, Garriga wants to go to a party his classmate invited him to. But they all agree to go hiking.

But, their simple hiking plan is met with unexpected events that give them trouble but also joy and fulfilment. The friends bond and always stick together. Eventually, they all reach the mountain top and make the potion for Suso’s father.

Performances

The cast of Live is Life was good. Although young, everyone had a special thing about them, and they performed great on screen.

Rodri, played by Adrian Baena, was decent and acted pretty well. He had innocence in his face that was well aligned with the on-screen character.

Garriga, played by Javi Casellas, is a personal favorite. His outstanding performance makes the viewer love him in whatever mood he is in. His character itself is cute, and he also proves to be a cute actor.

Alvaro and Maza, the twins, played by Juan Del Pozo and Raul Del Pozo, bring beautiful chemistry on-screen. Perhaps the actual fact of them being twins plays a great role.

Suso, played by David Rodriguez, is yet another great performance. His last scene was beautiful and heartbreaking, and David performed really well.

Not only a beautiful storyline, but the scenes are also amazing. Shot in a hilly region with lakes and curvy roads, Live is Life is a blessing to the eyes and mind.

Clearly following the hero’s journey, Live is Life is a unique story that brings the feeling of togetherness among friends and paints the picture of strengthening bonds. To make things interesting, the added adventures were simplistic and realistic, which further makes Live is Life enjoyable.

A special thing is that every character is explored. We know who is the intelligent one, who is a bit foolish, and who is clumsy, but we fall in love with every one of them. That’s good writing.

The sound design too was particularly beautiful and added to the thrill as well as the emotion of the story. The color palette was constant and very beautiful. 

As Rodri was a primary character, his life needed to be explored more. We really do not know anything much about him except that he is chased by bullies and is not great with his studies. We also know that his family is strict and doesn’t believe in him but we do not get a clear idea about what kind of person he is apart from a great friend.

Live is Life is a worthy watch for kids and adults. Kids have much to learn about friendships from it, and adults can always lay low on a sunny weekend afternoon watching it. Above all, it is a beautiful film, with amazing shots and soothing color grading. The characters are unique and heartwarming.

Rating: 4/5

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The movie “ Live is Life ” is a great mixture of drama and comedy. In this movie, five friends who are facing the imminent realities of adulthood unite for the last adventure: hunting down a magical flower that makes wishes come true. According to the stats, this movie is liked by 87% of Google users. Now you can guess how great it is.

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Live is Life is a book-based movie available to watch on Netflix with the massive star Cast- Adrian Baena (Rodri), Raul del Pozo (Maza), Javier Casellas (Garriga), David Rodriguez (Suso), Marc Martinez (Padre de Rodri), Mercedes Castro (Abuela de Rodri), Carlos Alberto Alonso (Duena Chale con Piscina), Fernando Moran (Abuela de Rodri), Toni Garrido (Nogueras).

The Plot of the Story “Live is Life”

It was the Summer of 1985. As with every time, Rodri( Adrián Baena) leaves Catalonia and returns to his parents’ Galician city to reunite with his gang. Still, this time will be different for him and his musketeers. Real-world problems begin appearing in their lives, hanging to drift the group piecemeal.

Adhering to the fellowship that joins them, the five musketeers plan to run down on Saint John’s Eve night to search for a magical flower that, as per legend, grows up grandly in a mountain and can make wishes come true.

Because right now, their main motive is to break their worried friend’s issue and, therefore, remain together. This is an adventure that will make them grow through action, emotion, and a stopgap in a summer they will forever remember.

The 2021 film Live is Life borrows its name from the 1984 song by the Austrian pop gemstone band Opus. From Maradona’s warm-up to beating maps time after time, the song has an important place in history. But, most importantly, it’s the beautiful meaning hidden in the crannies of the song that implies how there’s beauty to life when everyone gets together and looks out for one another.

The movie is veritably important and successful in landing this particular substance as the story rolls by. The film revolves around Rodri, who leaves for his grandparents’ place in the Galician city every time. In his birthplace, the effects aren’t so sweet for him as he struggles with academics and gets bullied a lot.

But, the situation in his grandparents’ place differs from the musketeers he has connected with earlier. Yet this particular time affects feel to weigh down the fellowship between the friend. Real-world problems and the impending majority come knocking at their door, and their fellowship is constantly threatened to be torn piecemeal.

But, the musketeers try to stay together and connected and escape plan to San Juan in the hunt for a magical flower that makes wishes come true and cures everything, becoming that one adventure that brings them closer to one another than ever.

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With all that being said, Live is Life is a film that I enjoyed. It’s relatable to me in colorful aspects, from visiting the country’s grandparents’ place to having a set of musketeers with whom you can embark on an adventure; the film hits the right notes of trustability and nostalgia. The shooting of this is done in unique and breathtaking locations of Galicia, with a great focus on La Ribeira Sacra. Some other locations included Panton, Sober, Quiroga, Barcelona, Esgos, Monforte de Lemos, and O’ Saviano.

The production companies are 4 Cats Pictures, Atresmedia Cine; Live is Life AIE. The film revolves around a character named Rodri. The movie explains the beauty of life and friendship. It is full of emotions and determination.

Subtitles in English are also available for this movie. You can easily watch this movie on Netflix if you have subscribed to that. The five actors in this movie played a great role. I didn’t mind the script a lot in the broader picture, but there are dramatic moments that I suppose could have been fluently avoided to make this a more polished story.

It’s surely different from the kind of stories Dani de la Torre is used to offering us on screen, and he seems to have done a decent job putting across a different yet thoughtful piece of cinema.

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Is Live Is Life Based on a True Story?

Directed by Dani de la Torre, Netflix’s ‘Live Is Life’ (or ‘Live Is Life: La Gran Aventura’) is a Spanish film set in 1985. The adventure movie follows Rodri (Adrián Baena), who returns to his hometown and is reunited with his friends for one last summer before they have to enter the adult world. To keep the spirit of their friendship alive, the five embark on an adventure by running away on Saint John’s Eve. They aim to hunt down a legendary magical flower that supposedly grows on a high mountain and can make any wish come true.

The memories that the young teens make on their quest are ones they will hopefully cherish for the rest of their lives. The film’s nostalgic and magical atmosphere keeps the audience hooked throughout the journey the five teens undertake. Moreover, the themes of impending adulthood and drifting relationships are ones many viewers cannot help but relate to. Many are also curious to know if ‘Live is Life’ is inspired by real-life events or simply a work of fiction. Well, we are here to explore how rooted the Spanish film is in reality.

Is Live Is Life a True Story?

Yes, ‘Live is Life’ is partially based on a true story. The movie is written by Albert Espinosa i Puig, whose other works include ‘Tonis Welt’ and ‘The Red Band Society.’ The writer took inspiration from his life, with many of Rodri’s experiences mirroring his own. However, the movie’s setting in a Galician town is inspired by the director Dani de la Torre’s childhood. Furthermore, Albert used to spend his summers in Cardedeu, Spain; his summer escapades served as the inspiration for several events in the movie.

When Dani read the script, he remarked how similar it was to his own childhood. Following this, the decision was made to change the film’s setting to Galicia, Apin, where Saint John’s Eve is celebrated with much ardor every June 23rd. Both the director and the writer of the film were inspired by nostalgia to give their best and bring their vision to life. The themes in the adventure movie showcase how teenagers lived during the 80s, and the prominent ones depicted are bullying and the usage of drugs.

The portrayal of substance abuse had been the director’s idea, who had seen similar things with his friends’ brothers. Albert felt that the judgment that the actions might incite from the current youth when it comes to drugs was not something that young people in the 80s would have done. Meanwhile, Dani observed a need to bring back the adventurous and feel-good themes of the movies set in the 80s. “I miss those the 80s adventure movies like ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘The Goonies,’” he told Deadline.

The filmmaker continued, “That kind of cinema has been lost and only really exists these days in ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘It.’ They’re movies with great doses of entertainment that make us better people — they encourage us to live, to dream, and make the most of opportunities. That middle-ground in cinema is lost — now it’s just indie stories or blockbusters.”

‘Live is Life’ may not completely be a true story, but the memories of the makers have indeed inspired several events depicted in the film. The emotions and desires displayed by the friends in the adventure movie are seemingly reminiscent of how most teenagers during that period felt. Not just that, the movie’s title is inspired by the eponymous 1984 song by the beloved Austrian pop-rock band, Opus, and can even be heard in the background in scenes.

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Throwing in a mewling infant is a bit much.

Granted, I was far enough into the sentimental Spanish coming-of-age melodrama that I thought, “You can’t do a knockoff of ‘Stand By Me’ without a body,” when lo and behold one appears. Then a second.

But in “Live is Life,” the bodies are of “Trainspotting” drug addicts. And stumbling across them, this “Stand Buy Me” gives half a thought to becoming “Five Teens as a Baby.”

Considering our 1985 15 year-olds are always wrestling with everything from a held-back-a-year report card to cancer, bullying and a desperate desire to kiss a girl, trespassing, vandalism, petty theft and grand theft boat — with a grand theft tractor to come — the baby is obviously one melodramatic flourish too many.

But the baby, its care, feeding and protection is given little thought in this get-it-all-in screenplay. Considering all the other issues, plot elements and dangling threads this Dani de la Torre (director) and Albert Spinosa (script) film has to deal with, that’s a wise de-emphasis. Just not as wise as leaving the infant out.

A bracing open introduces us to “Rodri,” short for Rodrigo ( Adrián Baena ), a kid fleeing a pack of goons — the school handball team, if you can believe that — in Alcorcón, a suburb of Madrid. He escapes into the old taxi his dad drives for the family’s summer vacation in the mountains of Galicia.

There, among the terraced vineyards where his grandparents live is where Rodri re-connects with his summer running mates.

There’s “The twins,” Alvaro and Maza ( Juan Del Pozo, Raúl del Pozo ). One is constantly going on about how good he is at karate, the other tells frank jokes about dying in between sharing details of the chemo that took his hair. Bespectacled richer kid Garriga ( Javier Casellas ) is the one with all the best soccer trading cards, all the fireworks he can carry and his pudgy heart set on kissing this girl from class. Soso ( David Rodríguez ) has a job, which helps his family, something that’s necessary since his father fell off a roof at work and has been in a coma.

Wow. And you thought telenovelas were a Mexican thing, and aimed at middle-aged women.

As Midsummer Night is here, they decide to undertake a quest, to camp out on a mountain top, locates flowers of this rare “Breath of the Earth” plant and make a healing potion out of it.

A lie to this or that parent, stuff a boomerang and a canteen in a backpack, and they’re off on this summer’s “great adventure.

Rodri’s parents, who don’t even believe he’s being bullied, are easy enough to fool. But bullying follows this kid like a bad debt. A pack of local motorbike hooligans called “The Sioux” have already run him off the road. They will be one of the many obstacles the guys have to overcome on their distracted, meandering quest.

But first they’ve got to stop at “The Templars,” a Medieval tomb where they tell lies, sip cola and chant “All together always” like the little nerds they just might be.

Our screenwriter wrote the Spanish version of “The Red Band Society,” about the sick kids in a hospital cancer ward, and an earlier boy-bonding melodrama, so he’s an old hand at getting the details right — starting with that magical tune that has all of Europe singing along in the summer of ’85.

No, I don’t remember the Austrian group Opus or their big hit “Live is Life,” but screenwriter Espinosa does, and the film has an almost-production number moment with everybody in a traffic jam singing along to it, some of them even getting out of their cars.

But the first sign that this coming-of-age dramedy is overreaching is the entire village full of problems that these five kids are wrestling with, and the second is their elaborate and not wholly believable plan to distract, sabotage and bike past The Sioux and Mr. Mullet ( Jon López ) their gang leader.

The journey takes days, and we see little evidence the lads brought much to sustain them on their odyssey. They prank locals, break into this or that place and generally follow the longest distance between two points to reach their goal.

Getting shot at by what I assume are pellet guns, an afternoon of drinking, bravely taking the shortcut through the sketchy side of one town they pass through — there are a lot of legs to this journey and a lot of scenes that don’t really move the plot forward.

The geography of this trek is a joke, as are the boat, etc., that they pick up along the way to help them complete it.

As the five boys get distracted, so do we, and all these promising story elements are introduced and left undeveloped. The kids hide, what, a cola stash into the crypt of a dead Templar? That’s a “sacred place” that maybe could have played a bigger part in their “crew” or “fellowship,” ennobling their quest. Develop that, and leave some of the other clutter out.

The sentimental moments include hugs and tears and some frank talk about death and living like today’s your last day — at 15.

“Living only teaches you to let go of what you have (in subtitled Spanish, or dubbed into English). “What matters is choosing kindness.”

“Live if Life” is original only in the number of movies it cribs from. But it isn’t “Stand By Me,” it’s not really “Five Teens and a Baby,” and it sure as shooting isn’t “Goonies.”

Schmaltz aside, I enjoyed this enough to recommend it up until it took that second act turn towards a baby, a teen party and all the stuff that had to be stuffed into the third act because of everything introduced in the first two.

Espinosa tosses all these balls in the air, and de la Torre (“La Sombra de la Rey,” aka “Gun City”) doesn’t really do justice to any of them.

Rating: TV-MA, violence, teen drinking, images of drug abuse, profanity

Cast: Adrián Baena, Juan Del Pozo, Raúl del Pozo, Javier Casellas, David Rodríguez and Jon López

Credits: Directed by Dani de la Torre, scripted by Albert Espinosa. A Netflix release.

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‘Live is Life’ Netflix Movie Review - Neither Revolutionary Nor Self-Discovery

Live is Life is a slice-of-life drama movie directed by Dani de la Torre. It revolves around the events of one summer when five friends are reunited as they spend time together when Rodri returns to the city for summer vacation. It is where they decide to go on an adventure to locate a mythical plant with medicinal values.

Driven by an experience-centric narrative, it feels like the movie had a tale of its own to tell, very different from its execution. It didn’t have much to offer in terms of major components that you would expect from the genre. The main issue with the movie is its intensity in both the writing and the screenplay. For a major part, the flow at which the events occur remains very constant with little to no deviation. It’s almost like being stuck in one frame where the story doesn’t move, and the context of the situation doesn’t matter since you are watching the same scene repeatedly. Due to the lack of engagement the movie warrants, the difficulty level of certain situations isn’t on by audiences at the required level. This wastes the potential prospects of exploring certain themes like emotional vulnerability more often, even if it had the opportunity to do so since the script does not build on these feelings enough. Some moments resemble the necessary response required and make you feel connected to the situation momentarily, but their overall input remains far too low as the movie opts on indulging the antics of the entire gang of friends instead.

The entire first half of the movie plays out on a very limited idea with it sticking to its fundamental motive, with little or no variation in the spectrum of possibilities as it fails to identify the potential of ‘discovery’, and remains more ceased on escaping from the gang of bikers and the danger they are faced with on the trip. It’s more or less a cat and mouse game till then with each side motivated on getting revenge on the other. It is not until the second half that the movie starts to take advantage of the characters and their backstories which had been set up quite towards the beginning. Astonishingly, the script doesn’t play to its strength until much late, and when it does it completely disregards the impact of contemplation in its journey.

The dynamics around the group were well documented as the movie derives its basic meaning from their ‘brotherly’ relationship that insists on upholding the value of togetherness. Each character is explained satisfactorily enough to the point one can get a glimpse of the psyche if not their personalities. What it does miss is analyzing the group conflicts as each of the group decisions is bent towards reaching consensus through group conformity extinguishing the sense of difference of opinion. There are no specific layers to the group identity other than that of the surface level.

In conclusion, this could have prospered on the vulnerabilities of the respective characters and their situations given the lack of touching moments. It constantly inflicts damage onto itself by not explaining itself well to the very things it builds upon, which otherwise could have been a good watch.

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After the relatively warm-and-fuzzy space odysseys of “ Arrival ” and “ Passengers ” it’s salutary to see a relatively big studio sci-fi picture in which the final frontier is once again relegated to the status of Ultimate Menace. Genre thrill-seekers disgusted/disappointed by “ Prometheus ” but still salivating like Pavlov’s Dog at the prospect of “Alien: Covenant” might find “Life,” directed by Daniel Espinosa , a satisfactory stopgap measure, a cinematic Epipen of outer-space mayhem to steady the nerves until the ostensible Main Event. As for myself, I’ve been gorging on such fare since before “ Alien ” itself—“It! The Terror from Beyond Space” and “Planet of the Vampires” were among my various cinematic bread and butters as a young maladjusted cinephile.

As such, “Life” struck me as several cuts above “meh” but never made me jump out of my seat. The picture takes place almost entirely on a claustrophobic, labyrinthine space station; director Espinosa and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey have a lot of fun in the early scene “floating” the camera along with the space station crew. Ryan Reynold’s cocky Roy is the cowboy of the bunch; he goes on a spacewalk to catch an off-course capsule full of research materials straight from Mars. Cautious medical officer David, played by an often bug-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal , is initially the fella who says things like “We weren’t trained for this .” Rebecca Ferguson ’s Miranda plays den mother to him and others. Science dude Hugh ( Ariyon Bakare ), paralyzed from the waist down, loves zero gravity conditions, and initially loves the single-cell organism (named “Calvin” by a group of contest-winning schoolchildren down on home sweet Earth) he’s wrested from a sample of Martian soil. Two other crew members are played by Olga Dihovichnaya and Hiroyuki Sanada , the latter back in space for the first time since Danny Boyle ’s 2007 “Sunshine.” 

You may remember the nickname “Dead Meat” from “Hot Shots,” or the phrase “Bantha Fodder” from one of the “ Star Wars ” movies. However. One of the bigger-name crew members does get to play (spoiler alert, sort of) a reprise of the Steven Seagal role in “ Executive Decision .” That’s because little Calvin suddenly starts growing awful fast. At first it’s kind of like a living version of those icky sticky wall-tumbling toys. Which is bad enough. Eventually it grows into a tentacled cross between a mutant lotus and an irritated cobra. It’s pretty gnarly. But early on I thought, let’s face it, it ain’t Giger. Or Giger-league. And without that you’re always going to suffer by comparison. The other effects and settings are solid but unextraordinary, although the hiccupped blood bubbles that float around after escaping from Calvin’s victims are a nice ghoulish touch.

There’s also the constant, insistent score by Jon Ekstrand , bearing down right from the opening and not doing much for the cause. There are some disquieting bits—the early scene in which the maturing Calvin grabs on to Hugh’s gloved hand and simply will not let go is a nice burner, for sure. But the movie’s story “beats” are inescapably commonplace. (There’s even a bit derived from “The Thing From Another World” in which one ill-advised character contemplates Calvin’s scientific awesomeness.) Either screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick haven’t got the goods, or there really are only so many things you can do with a homicidal space creature and a manned ship.

It doesn’t help that just as the movie should be hurtling toward its climax, it pauses for some character development. A children’s book that makes a Chekhovian appearance in the “first act” holds the key to survival in the final one, and I didn’t buy it. What the filmmakers don’t understand is that when you try to add overtly cerebral notes to ruthless B-picture scenarios, you actually wind up making your final product dumber than the movies you think you’re transcending. “Life” bounces back a bit with a commitedly sour punchline, and then blows that by punching up a ‘70s hit you’ve heard a million times before in a million better cinematic contexts. And that’s “Life.” 

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By stefani munro | jul 16, 2022.

Live is Life is a Spanish original film coming to Netflix U.S. on Monday, July 18 . The movie follows five pals who decide to spend their last summer together by going on an adventure to hunt down a “magical flower that makes wishes come true.”

The 1-hour-49-minute long movie, directed by Dani de la Torre, originally made its debut at the 2021 Málaga Film Festival, where it caught the eye of Netflix distributers. The official synopsis for the movie, via IMDb , reads:

"“Summer 1985. As with every year, Rodri (Adrián Baena) leaves Catalonia and returns to his parents’ Galician town to reunite with his gang. However, this year will be different for him and his friends. The real world problems begin appearing in their lives, threatening to drift the group apart. Clinging onto the friendship that joins them, the five friends plan to run away on Saint John’s Eve night to search for a magical flower that, as per legend, grows up high a mountain and can make wishes come true.”"

If you’re curious about the cast, then get to know them better! We’ve listed all the actors and the characters they’ll be playing below.

Live is Life cast

Given that the movie is of Spanish origin, the actors in the movie are predominantly also Spanish, so their names may not be as familiar to you. However, the cast featured in the movie is some of Spain’s top and rising talent. Check out the full cast list, provided via IMDb , below.

• Adrián Baena as Rodri
• Juan del Pozo as Álvaro
• Raúl del Pozo as Maza
• David Rodríguez as Suso
• Javier Casellas as Garriga
• Marc Martínez as Padre de Rodri
• Sílvia Bel as Madre de Rodri
• Jon López as Jefe Sioux
• Fernando Morán as Abuelo de Rodri
• Mercedes Castro as Abuela de Rodri
• Luisa Merelas as Señora María
• Covadonga Berdiñas as Mujer Campo (Cova Berdiñas)
• Lua Carteron as Lúa (Hermana Rodri)
• Toni Garrido as Nogueras
• Bernat Fuertes Azcona as Jefe Balonmano B (Bernat Fuertes)
• Laura Nuñez as Rocío
• Ana Villalón as Melliza Morena
• María Villalón as Melliza Rubia

Click on the names above to be taken to the individuals’ official IMDb pages and get to know their full filmographies!

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Is "The Sign" Hinting at the End of 'Bluey'?

The special episode does more than tell a heartwarming story, as it inspires a fair amount of chaos. The biggest reaction to the episode was the growing fear that Bluey would be canceled. Because of the importance of the extra-long episode and the dramatic content, the rumor that there would be no more Bluey spread quickly, but fortunately, it was no more than a rumor. Admittedly, the extended episode is an event reminiscent of shows that use a film to conclude the story. But there is nothing to support these claims, especially after producer Sam Moor denied the rumors and promised many more surprises regarding these characters.

In fact, "The Sign" and its success could mean bigger things in the works for Bluey . Executive producer Daley Pearson explained the episode's importance, saying, "There's a bit of experimental feel to it. Will it work? Will the audience stick with it?" She also revealed that this extended episode was the first that involved all the animation teams, proving that it was a significant undertaking. However, the risk paid off. "The Sign" has captured the attention of the intended audience and inspired a larger conversation, proving Bluey is still in its prime . Whatever the future may hold for the Heeler family, an impending cancelation is unlikely, as it is more popular than ever. And "The Sign" seems to have passed Pearson's test, effectively demonstrating that Bluey can be even more impactful with longer episodes.

Bluey is available to stream on Disney+ in the U.S.

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Review: In ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,’ Godzilla is nowhere to be found

The MonsterVerse movie formula seemed impossible to get wrong. How could you mess up bringing together two of cinema’s most iconic monsters? The opening scene delivers on the promise, featuring Kong fiercely fighting off a group of attackers. Having just wanted to live a peaceful life in solitude, Kong lets out a relatable sigh of disappointment. Despite starting on such a high note, this is the only memorable scene in the whole film. Compared to its predecessor, “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” falls short in recreating the original’s excitement.

The film starts by showing what Kong has been up to since “Godzilla vs. Kong” (2021). He is living a solitary life in the Hollow Earth, a portal to the center of the planet, where prehistoric creatures coexist. On the surface, where humans reside, we see Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) consoling her adopted daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle), the last remaining Iwi tribe member of Skull Island, about a hallucination of an impending attack in the MonsterVerse. When Kong starts to receive mysterious signals, Ilene brings a conspiracy podcaster, a Monster expert and her daughter on a trip under the surface to investigate. 

You may be wondering where Godzilla is in all of this. After all, he makes up half of the movie’s title. Well, he doesn’t show up to battle until the 1:18:52 mark of the 1 hour and 53 minute film. Of course, Godzilla is then invited by Kong and a lost ape youngling to defeat the true antagonist, Skar King, a tyrannical leader of an ape tribe. Jia then turns out to be able to summon Mothra, another titan, who joins Kong and Godzilla — despite their previous differences — for the climactic battle. With Kong carrying the majority of the action in the film, Godzilla is like the kid who slacks on a project and then steals the spotlight at the presentation despite having done nothing. 

“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” not only lacks narrative flair, but feels predictable. Cinematically, the flashy CGI monster battles, and the storyline’s catchy pacing does the bare minimum to entertain viewers —nothing less, but certainly nothing more. It relies on the audience to follow the universe’s convoluted fictional timeline, disguising its lazy and predictable plot. The human characters are borderline irrelevant, with the cast chasing around the creatures like bumbling, mediocre sports commentators. The decisions they make rarely serve to move the plot forward. Rather, the empty screenplay seems designed to fulfill the comedic aspirations set by the film’s predecessors — a promise it tragically fails to uphold. Time spent with these hollow characters detracts from screen time that could have been devoted to fleshing out Godzilla’s role in the conflict. 

Although many parts of the film do feel uninspired and redundant, “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” does offer a new perspective on the colossal ape’s character. Instead of being portrayed simply as a brutish beast, Kong is humanized. He leaves Hollow Earth to escape loneliness by finding companionship in humans like Jia. We also see him adopting a young ape called Soko. The film tries to frame Kong as a champion of the underdog, as most of the plot revolves around the towering primate’s desire to lift his ape brethren from the jackboot of Skar King. 

Kong carries the entire movie on his back. Viewers would only ever watch this film for those few action sequences, the occasional comedic scene and unexpected cute moments from the titular simian. At this point, the movie might as well let the creatures do the talking instead of filling the air with dry, human dialogue. It is surprising that the movie is a box office success, striking an $80 million profit. It is possible that the movie’s financial success is riding on the coattails of last year’s “Godzilla Minus One,” the first entry of the property to have won an Oscar. When looking at both films side by side, there is an obvious discrepancy between the American and Japanese adaptations. Unlike the Hollywood take on the character, filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki embraced the franchises’ origin as a postwar nuclear allegory, tackling the uniquely Japanese context of postwar politics and culture. 

Although “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” leaves much to be desired from a narrative and stylistic standpoint, clearly lacking in comparison to other monster films, it at least managed to craft a surprisingly endearing protagonist in Kong. 

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James Black • Apr 18, 2024 at 10:12 pm

I truly enjoyed this film.

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Fallout’s yellow vials explained: how the ghoul stayed alive for 219 years.

Amazon's Fallout show introduces strange yellow vials, which apparently hold great value in its corner of the games' post-apocalyptic world.

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• Ghoul's importance in Fallout lies in flashbacks revealing Fallou's pre-apocalypse timeline.
• Ghoul's survival secret in Fallout is linked to his consumption of yellow vials.
• Yellow vials help Ghouls avoid becoming Feral Ghouls in Fallout's world.

The strange yellow vials hold great value in Fallout , particularly in regards to the Ghoul. Played by Walton Goggins, Cooper Howard a.k.a. The Ghoul is of great importance to the show's overarching narrative, given that its scenes that offer a window into what the world was before Fallout's apocalypse happened are his flashbacks. Unlike Lucy and Maximus, the Ghoul experienced life before nuclear war wiped out most of civilization.

Scattered across the series is a series of flashbacks that chronicle Cooper Howard's dealings with Vault-Tec as he gradually begins to realize the depth of his wife's connection to the disaster that's about to strike the planet. Interestingly, though, his transformation into a Ghoul is avoided in season 1. But while this aspect of his story remains unexplored, how he's survived for so long is much less ambiguous in the show.

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The ghouls has stayed alive in fallout due to the vials of yellow liquid, a ghoul living as long as cooper howard is highly unusual.

It's established in Fallout that vials of yellow liquid are highly sought after by Ghouls because of the unique properties they possess. By consuming them, a Ghoul can avoid becoming what is known both in the series and in the games as a Feral Ghoul . In Fallout lore, a Feral Ghoul is similar in behavior and appearance to that of a zombie. When one becomes a Ghoul, it's typically understood that it's only a matter of time before their condition deteriorates further, but it would seem that at least in the California area, there's a solution to this.

Roger, a Ghoul Lucy and Walton Goggins' Fallout character encountered in episode 3, acknowledged how impressive the latter's survival really is. As someone who was alive at the beginning of the Fallout timeline , Cooper is one of the original Ghouls, which seemingly makes him an extremely rare case. As Roger pointed out, the fact that the Ghoul is alive says a lot about how many vials he must have drank. As the Ghoul implied, his work as a mercenary must have enabled him to maintain a continuous supply.

What Was The Purpose Of The Ghoul's Yellow Vials?

It doesn't stop one from becoming a feral ghoul, as the effect is only temporary.

As for the original purpose of the yellow vials, Fallout has yet to elaborate on their origins. Clearly, they slow down the process of becoming a Feral Ghoul. Whether that's what they were meant for, though, is hard to say at this juncture. There's a long list of organizations in Fallout's world, such as the Enclave, Big MT, and of course, Vault Tec, that participate in scientific experiments. It's possible that any of them invented the yellow liquid, and the formula wound up being mass-produced.

Fallout is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.