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With Meryl Streep around, even Netflix and Ryan Murphy can’t spoil

Ryan Murphy has assembled one of the impressive cast of Netflix for "The Prom," an adaptation of the successful musical that airs directly on the streaming service.

The result suffers from a variety of problems, but is worth watching because of Meryl Streep, who is good at proving that love has no age

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Avner Shavit

Friday, December 11, 2020, 12:30 p.m.

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Trailer for the movie "The Prom" (Netflix)

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Life is what happens to you while Ryan Murphy produces content.

Only recently have "Hollywood", "Rached", "The Politician" and "The Boys in the Gang" appeared on Netflix.

Not enough for you?

This weekend also sees the release of a film called "The Prom", and in light of his huge contract with the streaming service - the hand is still out.

Not right for you?

Go to the movies and look for another movie (ha, oops).

"The Prom" is a musical based on a stage production of the same name, which came up successfully a few years ago.

As the name implies, the plot takes place around one of the highlights of the lives of American teens, and moves between two different arenas.

We start in New York, where some fading stars are facing the failure of their new musical.

They are embodied by several players whose careers are actually thriving as always - Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and James Corden, one of the most brilliant cast in Netflix's original production.

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From "The Prom" (Photo: PR)

Following the failure, representatives of the New York elite are looking for a way to return to consciousness, and decide to travel to Indiana, a clear stronghold of support from the Republican Party.

There, it turns out that one of the students decided to invite her sweetheart to the prom, which led to a fierce protest and the cancellation of the event.

Interestingly, the person in charge is not the school principal, who actually supports same-sex love, but the parents' committee - a body that has often been presented by Hollywood as a source of evil in recent years.

The New York stars, being beautiful liberals, decide to mobilize for the two high school students and allow them to enjoy the prom in one way or another - and all this happens against the background of many songs and dances: there are musicals where the music is just a break, but "The Prom" Almost all dialogues are presented in poetry.

Traditionally, the musical is one of the most human and kind-hearted genres in existence.

The "prom," however, almost borders on misanthropy.

As usual in American cinema, he portrays most of his conservative locals in a condescending and contemptuous manner, but the other side is also met with contempt.

The New York stars are portrayed as selfish and manipulative losers, using an Indiana girl only for personal advancement purposes.

No matter how you look at it, there is not much human love here.

Another problem: "The Prom" claims to be a film with a message, one that puts lesbian characters at the center of the stage and makes it clear to the whole of America, if not the whole world, that love is love and everyone deserves the same rights.

But the pair of girls remain undeveloped sub-characters here.

The protagonist, played by the anonymous Joe Allen Felman, still enjoys a few moments of grace - but her darling, played by Ariana Dubois, is a terribly trivial and gray-haired character, one whose existence can hardly be felt.

In the end, both she and her lover are nothing more than statisticians in this story.

The worldview of the film: Those who live in New York are arrogant, and those who live in Indiana are inferior.

From "The Prom" (Photo: PR)

And there is also an artistic problem: musical films at their best when they are larger than life, but here it does not happen.

It should be noted in favor of "The Prom" that it is not theatrical, but on the other hand, the result is also not particularly cinematic, and the choreography never rises to exciting heights.

However, there are also three degrees in the film that make it possible to watch it in a pleasant way.

First thing: the songs of this musical are beautiful, and their quality is also preserved in the cinematic adaptation.

This is especially true of the main number, "I Just Want to Dance With You", which deserves to be plowed on Spotify long after the viewing.

Second degree: the quality of the cast and actresses.

Have we ever seen a bad movie with Meryl Streep?

The truth is, but it rarely happens, and not this time.

The actress is at her best as usual, and alongside her blossoms there a little less familiar: Keegan Michael-Bay, best known from television and his significant cinematic roles so far have been as a dubber.

The charming actor plays in the "prom" the principal, who rebels against local norms and fights the parents' committee to protect his students, and does so in a conquering way.

The lesbian girls are no more than standing in the big story.

From "The Prom" (Photo: PR)

At an early stage it turns out that the director admires the star played by Streep, and although she is much older than him, over time a relative system develops between them that goes in the romantic direction.

We are used to seeing Hollywood stories about men dating women much younger than them: this is one of the oldest conventions in the industry, and is usually romanticized.

The opposite direction, however, is less common, and even if it is, it is described as a perverted thing, with the woman being portrayed as a "predator," "milf," and so on.

"The Prom," on the other hand, shakes off all of this, and presents the novel without any complications, and in a natural, graceful, and magical way just like Streep and Keegan Michael-Kay themselves.

So when it comes to same-sex relationships, as is customary in Hollywood, the film is much less advanced and meaningful than it claims to be, but at least it does well to prove that love has no age.

What a mother.

Keegan Michael-Kay from "The Prom" (Photo: PR)

Purple character in the form of a woman.

Meryl Streep from "The Prom" (Photo: PR)

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