9/10
💡Man, the Level of Difficulty to pull this thing off with this exact tone was ridiculously difficult.💡
19 April 2024
Just Got out of a The Book of Clarence Screening.

There's one Tonal issue I had that was with a Speech 💬, that I think they should of delivered that speech in the Whimsical Tone rather than the Serious tone, it would of worked far better. All of the other serious moments worked though.

Other than that.

Excellent Film with a Massive Payoff.

Multiple Different Elements Intertwine & The Shadow Becomes the Body and then Clarence Knows & Believes.

🤔 Clarence Doubts God & Jesus(as does his Twin Brother Thomas doubts Clarence, and Clarence has an issue with Thomas Leaving) and Clarence flat out admits he thinks there is no God(or so he says until Life changing events occur)

💚I love the Build of this Film. The way they have Jesus presented within the film as "sort of there in the film, but also far off within the film" was Masterfully Done.

💙I loved the Tone, coupled with the English Accents and African Accents, the Binary Tone of Mostly Whimsical and also Serious Moments, was so good in this film.

😂Some of the Comedy Worked, Some Didn't. And that Barabbas line about Taking down the Roman Empire Alone was Hilarious..

🤔The multiple Plays on Biblical Accounts that they use in this were not only smart, but also make you think about the real life nuances in these multiple different things they present in the film from the text.

Because when the Film Presents the Accounts Like this in this sort of Whimsical Tone, it makes you think more about it. Like what in real Life terms, would these situations actually be like? (Aside from the truncated information Given in the text). It Was Great to see this on Screen.

Things like, People trying to force there way into becoming Apostles of Jesus, the line when Clarence asked Joseph "did you actually believe this" and Josephs comedic toned cut off response.

The "Another Messiah" and then "Yet another self professed Messiah" lines. Again, this makes you think "Man, this was how it was going on in real time"

🎥 The Gorgeous Shots of Jerusalem throughout the film were great to see.

🤹The Benedict Cumberbatch "double turn"

💡 And then Finally we have the Lightbulb and what it represented each time. I thought it was Brilliant.

Overall, I actually think this Film is a Masterstroke.
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