Here has been reviewed just once.
Here (2024) - 5/10
This film is basically what happens when someone watches Forrest Gump and thinks, “This is great but what if it were more bleak and nobody was allowed to leave the living room?” Every single shot is taken from the same spot in the same room over a number of years, with things starting promising and getting more and more depressing as time ticks on. So in that sense, I suppose, it's a lot like my home-made porn collection, and probably shares a similar production budget. Instead of Forrest accidentally influencing major historical events, history occasionally drifts into this film via the TV and radio as these people raise families, fight, grow old and, generally, be miserable. It's the story of an American life encapsulated: life, love, and furniture placement. I liked the concept, to be honest. I enjoy long timelines and seeing what becomes of people; it gives a thoughtful, reflective vibe about time and our impact on the whole. It'll make you wonder how many people have sat exactly where you're sat now. Or breathed in the exact air you've just breathed in. How many men have walked round with their cocks out in that exact spot where your mouth currently is? And how many more will do so in the future? But ultimately, it feels like it's been done on the cheap. They haven't even hired a camera man, for Christ's sake! They've just whacked it on a tripod and said, "Off you go!"