1 month ago Trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s new movie This Is Me … Now: Love Story— an accessory to her ninth studio album This is me…now— became a hot topic on social media and group chats everywhere. Not necessarily because the trailer was good or bad, but because it was completely baffling. Was it supposed to be a biopic? A visual album? A fantasy steampunk movie where a giant metal heart explodes? Whatever it is, it was definitely a gamble on Lopez’s part to make a project that even her closest friends and family seemed to doubt her sanity. He invested $20 million out of his own pocket. Now, as of Friday, this one-hour project and album of hers has finally arrived on her Amazon Prime Video, along with a documentary about the making of the film and album. The best untold love storyAfter watching J. Lo’s movie, I still can’t answer many of the questions brought up by the trailer, but I’m happy to report that the movie is an absurd, chaotic, and inexplicable mess. Masu. I liked it.
It’s only one hour long, so This Is Me … Now: Love Story Covers a lot of ground. It begins with a Puerto Rican folk tale about star-crossed lovers, the framework for López’s own love story (the biographical part of the project). She has experienced so much heartbreak that this alludes to her first relationship with her current husband, Ben Affleck, and she works in a steampunk heart factory, He has a dream of cultivating a special flower that supports Metal Heart. Until the flowers started to wither and her heart felt like it was going to burst. got it! The “real” Lopez (what is reality?) is a serial monogamist who promotes astrology and keeps collecting her failed relationships and marriage proposals like an infinity stone. By the end, you won’t be surprised to learn that she finds herself and once again finds her true love in Affleck. Art imitating her life!
Folktales, steampunk dream sequences set to her new songs (and amazing choreography). But that’s all before throwing in various large-scale set pieces throughout the movie. An epic wedding number in which Lopez switches between three partners, representing her three husbands in front of Affleck.Scenes inspired by sing in the rain; a nod to her experience of abuse, expressed through a choreographed duet set in a glass house that collapses while she is roped to her partner. Then there’s the random but impressive list of cast members, boasting big-name actors from Trevor Noah and KiKi Palmer to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru. Most of these celebrities make up what Variety magazine calls Lopez’s “zodiacal love council,” which means that J. Lo has reached deep into her Rolodex and her famous friends. It aptly explains the creepy concept of having people cosplay as representatives of the zodiac. These zodiac personifications (Palmer the Scorpio, Tyson the Taurus, etc.) literally appear in a gothic heavenly chamber as singer and actor Lopez continues to make poor decisions in relationships. I’m watching over Lopez from here. Meanwhile, rapper Fat Joe hilariously plays Lopez’s therapist, Affleck plays a sensational TV news commentator shriveled with massive prosthetics, and a musical number set in a Love Addicts Anonymous group session. , and Fat Joe’s facilitator is renowned character actor Paul Lacy.
If all of this sounds okay, it’s because it really is. This Is Me … Now: Love Story, a vanity project of the highest order, is some of the biggest celebrity nonsense I’ve witnessed in a long time, and that’s a good thing. For one, Lopez is single-handedly giving much-needed high-profile support to astrology girls, who have been ridiculed as stupid, deceived idiots. He is one of the best parts of the entire zodiac love council. all I wondered what would happen if Post Malone, Sadhguru, Jennifer Lewis and Sofia Vergara were in the same room.
Plus, it’s really exciting to see an A-lister pursue pure, honest, sincere crap.Yes, the movie is a bit confusing, but that’s it. fun It’s messy and funny in both a sarcastic and serious way. In an age when celebrity images are so heavily guarded and airbrushed, one of the greatest living stars is unafraid to create work that has the potential to be completely incomprehensible to others. But I love it unashamedly. If you’re J.Lo, why not? do not have Do you want to create a visionary visual album that is a biographical version of your astrology-infused musical experience? and $20 million at stake? It is, in a word, symbolic.
I would go so far as to say that more celebrities should do something like this. I’d rather have a star who takes herself too seriously and makes us all suffer in a three-hour high-end period drama in which she appears, late in her career, in a meaningless passion project. I much prefer stars who decide to spend their millions on it. I chose “How” in hopes of finally winning that Oscar. That goes without saying, but countless celebrities have developed skincare and makeup lines that have no use for them, launched fragrances for the clearance section of TJ Maxx, or worse. He is trying to enter the political world. J.Lo’s projects include not only a respect for the audience’s time, but also a tolerance for tired attempts at authorship, a constant push to “elevate” a concept, story, or piece of culture. There is also a lack of pretentiousness in the decline of. If I looked like J.Lo in my 50s, if I had J.Lo’s money, I’d be spending my time and resources on making meaningless things.Celebrities, take a note from Jenny from the Block: Make things silly, fun, and liberating, not what others think. want.
