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Dear Christian Hubbard,
You loved the Dear Evan Hansen film and it’s good. Here’s why.
2017 was a turning point in your life. In fact, 2017 was probably the most defining year of your adulthood. You’ve finally graduated from college. You might have graduated three years later than all your friends. But you were the third person in your whole family to do so! You found something you really enjoyed – musical theater – and decided to pursue a career there. With 2015 and 2016 filled with trauma from watching your grandma and uncle take their last breath, 2017 was destined to change you.
And he did.
You just got this promotion and met a whole horde of new friends, who would become family, while helping to build an independent entertainment website. You were happy. Or at least that’s the character you put into the world. In 2017, you also listened to the Broadway’s soundtrack for the first time. Dear Evan Hansen. And now, in 2021, every song means something to you.
Now in 2021 we have a film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, and the Internet is not on board. So why is it normal that you like Dear Evan Hansen when apparently not everyone agrees? Because you felt something.
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Golden Globe nominee and Tony Award winner Ben Platt returns to the role he made famous in the first place. A role that, according to creators Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, would not exist without him. Platt’s vocal range, the brand’s vulnerability, and physically trying emotions are fully on display throughout the film’s adaptation. The actor, along with those who produce and direct (Stephen Chbosky, Adam Siegel, and his own father Marc Platt), doesn’t hesitate to perform the performances Platt has given during his eight shows a week for seven years in workshops, off Broadway and under the bright lights of the Broadway stage.
Platt feels something as he dons the famous arm cast and weaves his way through emotional bangers like “Waving Through A Window” and “For Forever”. The film continues to sound true to the source. Platt’s nervous energy and natural display of feeling uncomfortable in one’s own skin through various body language signals have a lasting effect. Plus, having the man who made songs the top contenders on the Billboard Music Charts forces longtime theater fans to lean forward in their chairs a bit. Allow those of us who previously log into production to familiarize themselves with the latest version in the series.
However, Platt’s talents aside, the story of Dear Evan Hansen presents many mistakes made and the choices those affected by those mistakes must make.
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Here we are. Dear Evan Hansen is the story of a teenager who struggles to fit in at the start of his final year of high school. On his first day of school, he is alone, with no friends or real leadership. Her dad is away, her single mom is overworked, and the girl of her dreams even has no idea she exists. After being diagnosed with depression and anxiety, the teen is put on a rigorous drug regimen and his therapist asks him to write letters to himself at the start of each day. Daily reminders that every day is a gift.
However, one of those letters ends up in the hands of another troubled teenager named Connor Murphy. Upon reading the letter, this teenager reaches a breaking point and commits suicide. The following is the fallout. People assume that Evan is a friend of Connor’s without ever having a chance to explain himself. People make him a hero celebrating the memory of a deceased friend who suffered from a mental health problem.
The story itself is a bit of a hassle. However, just like life. Dear Evan Hansen and the themes they present are incredibly close to home. All the more so when the film covers a character who only had a minor role on stage, Alana (Amandla Stenberg). His new song, “The Anonymous Ones,†highlights people who feel the need to keep going, despite the weight of the world on their soldiers. On a personal note, a word from the song “the parts that cannot be said, we wear them well, but that does not mean that they are not heavy“will be one of my mantras for moving forward.
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Somewhere else, Dear Evan Hansen tells the story of mothers and their guilt. Evan’s single mother (Julianne Moore) creates, perhaps, the most heartbreaking moment when she realizes that her own son has considered suicide. Connor’s mother (Amy Adams) is consumed with guilt. Guilt of not doing enough to help his son in pain before he commits suicide. Either way, these two women’s walls crumble as they grab what they can control. You feel compelled to think about your own mother and the sacrifices she made.
Dear Evan Hansen is a flawed film of flawed people telling the story of imperfections and how we deal with them. It means more to some people, including me, than we may never be able to express.
So.
Dear Christian Hubbard. You enjoyed the Dear Evan Hansen film and it’s good. Because, when you need it most, in 2017, music made you feel something. And, in 2021, watching that music transform into a spectacle on the big screen while still maintaining a personal connection, you felt something. And that’s what movies, musicals, and musicals are designed for. – Christian hubbard
Rating: 😢 / 10
Dear Evan Hansen is playing in theaters now!
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