Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010) is the debut film of Richard Ayoade in the director’s chair, and it can’t get better than this. He is also known by his acting on ‘The IT Crowd‘ as Moss or on ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace‘ as Dean Learner, so certainly we could bet our money in everything he is involved.
The cover of the DVD
The movie is set in 1986 and follows the life of a 15 year-old boy called Oliver Tate. As you can presume we could find the same topics as any teen comedy movie out there and we do, but fortunately we found ourselves with a clever story that presents the same topics with a great package! There is a girl, love and the classic tough relationships between parents and son. We also have some side stories that enriches the whole movie like the marital crisis or the whole new age guru, everything really enjoyable. In a little bit more than 1h30m we are part of a story that is really worthy.
We could say that some stylistic decisions of the movie, the primary colors used and some presentations of the character owe quite much to Wes Anderson movies, I love Wes Anderson so for me it’s not a problem, I guess is also hard to be truly original in your debut or maybe it’s some kind of decision to approach more easily their audience target.
I forgot to talk about one thing that I really like about the movie: the soundtrack. It was composed by Alex Turner, the frontman of The Arctic Monkeys and I will write a post in the next few days about it, so stay tuned!
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