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Title: Metroland (1997)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Christian Bale | ... | Chris | |
| Emily Watson | ... | Marion | |
| Lee Ross | ... | Toni | |
| Elsa Zylberstein | ... | Annick | |
| John Wood | ... | The Retired Commuter | |
| Rufus | ... | Henri | |
| Amanda Ryan | ... | Joanna | |
| Jonathan Aris | ... | Dave | |
| Ifan Meredith | ... | Mickey | |
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Boris Terral | ... | Jacques |
| Lucy Speed | ... | Punk Girl | |
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Bill Thomas | ... | Middle-Aged Commuter |
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Bethan Fairbairn | ... | Amy |
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Daisy Fairbairn | ... | Amy |
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Del Bartle | ... | One of The Subverts |
After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion. Written by Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>
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The main character in Metroland embodies the crisis that every one of us has already or will probably go through. "Have we made the right choices in our lives to make ourselves happy?".
The movie portrays this character's search for the answers through flashbacks to his past as well as new events that are occurring in his present. The two paths that he could have taken were shown. He begins questioning if he had made the right choice with his current life. A life which he thought he would never want when he was younger and rebellious. The "9 to 5" job that we, or at least some of us, have all dreaded in fear of the death of our own creativity and individualism. The main male character basically is the imperfect hero with imperfect thoughts, much akin to the "hero" that we can hope to be at this day and age.
The last line in the movie, "If not now, then, never." is a line we always hear but take its meaning for granted. Truly, if happiness is not found in the moment..in the "now"..then, where else can it ever be?