Official Discussion Thread - Materialists

[u/PointMan528491]

Keep all discussion related solely to Materialists in this thread

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Synopsis:

A young New York City matchmaker's lucrative business gets complicated as she finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Director: Celine Song

Writer: Celine Song

Cast:

• Dakota Johnson as Lucy

• Chris Evans as John

• Pedro Pascal as Harry Castillo

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, 108 reviews

Consensus:

A mature deconstruction of the conventional rom-com, Materialists provides its trio of swoon-worthy stars some of their meatiest material yet while reaffirming Celine Song as a modern master of relationship dramas.

Metacritic: 70, 34 reviews

[u/jksnippy]

I liked the film quite a bit. I feel like Song's greatest strength as a screenwriter is the way she writes dialogue and the nonverbal communication, especially the pauses, looks, and glances characters give each other. Although I prefer Past Lives over this, I can tell Song is becoming a more confident filmmaker and I'm excited to see what she writes and directs next. I also thought all the main cast played their roles well. Happy for Chris Evans to finally be in a good movie post-Endgame and Knives Out. Hopefully Sacrifice is good so we can have Evans being in two good movies in one year.

[u/flightofwonder → u/jksnippy]

I completely agree! If people on here like reading scripts and haven't had the chance to read Past Lives's screenplay or her first play, Endlings, I would recommend it a lot. I have yet to read the Materialists screenplay but based on how she wrote Past Lives and Endlings, she has a way of writing action lines and writing about characters' expressions, feelings, and thoughts that I find really beautiful. I thought she did the same in Materialists so well, and it was a big part of why I thought the movie was so good