Earth Starts to Fall Apart in Cataclysmic Disasters as He Begins to Die

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Movie: The life of chuck (2024)  The life of a man who has been surrounded by death since he was a child and has to learn to enjoy life while waiting for the worst to happen.    Cast:  Tom Hiddleston as Charles "Chuck" Krantz, an accountant who grows up loving dancing. Jacob Tremblay as 17-year-old Chuck Benjamin Pajak as 11-year-old Chuck Cody Flanagan as 7-year-old Chuck Chiwetel Ejiofor as Marty Anderson, a high school teacher and Felicia's ex-husband Karen Gillan as Felicia Gordon, a nurse and Marty's ex-wife Mark Hamill as Albie Krantz, Chuck's "zayde" or paternal grandfather who is also an accountant Mia Sara as Sarah Krantz, Chuck's "bubbe" or paternal grandmother who inspires Chuck's love for dance Nick Offerman as the Narrator Carl Lumbly as Sam Yarborough, an elderly mortician Marty encounters, later revealed to be the mortician at Albie's funeral Annalise Basso as Janice Halliday, a young woman recovering from a breakup who briefly becomes Chuck's dance partner Taylor Gordon / The Pocket Queen as Taylor Franck, a street drummer and busker Kate Siegel as Miss Richards, an idealistic teacher from Marty's school Samantha Sloyan as Miss Rohrbacher, the head teacher of "Twirlers and Spinners", the dance program of Chuck's school Trinity Bliss as Cat McCoy, a girl whom Chuck has a crush on and is his frequent partner at their dance club Matthew Lillard as Gus Wilfong, Marty's neighbor Rahul Kohli as Bri, Felicia's colleague at the hospital they work in Heather Langenkamp as Vera Stanley, the neighbor of the Krantz family and the neighborhood gossip Violet McGraw as Iris, a young girl on roller skates Marty encounters while traveling to Felicia's home David Dastmalchian as Josh, a single father grieving his wife leaving him Harvey Guillén as Hector, a parent of one of Marty's students Q'orianka Kilcher as Virginia "Ginny" Krantz, Chuck's wife and Brian's mother Antonio Raul Corbo as Brian Krantz, Chuck's teenage son Molly C. Quinn as Chuck's mother, who was pregnant when she died Michael Trucco as Dylan's dad Amy Biedel as Dylan's mom Matt Biedel as Dr. Winston Andy Grush as Mac, Taylor's friend and driver Hamish Linklater as American reporter (voice) Lauren LaVera as Italian reporter (voice) Carla Gugino as television voiceover Sauriyan Sapkota as Ram, a student of Marty's Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Andrea, a banker Marty encounters Elan Gale as a radio news reporter and the Fall Fling DJ Scott Wampler as Radio Host #2 Mike Flanagan as a mourner at Sarah's funeral

Transcript

00:00To give you context, the movie is divided into three acts, but they are presented in reverse.

00:06First, we see Act 3, then Act 2, and finally Act 1, allowing us to understand where everything about Chuck comes from and to better comprehend his life.

00:18The Act 3 is titled Thanks, Chuck, and focuses on a teacher named Martin.

00:22The presence of a world plunged into chaos. There are power outages, the internet collapsing, news of fires, floods, earthquakes, and sinkholes emerging out of nowhere.

00:34People believe this is the end. Some take their own lives, others surrender to despair, and some, like Felicia, Martin's ex-wife and a nurse, try to resist, even though the outlook is bleak.

00:46In the midst of this scenario, there is something that troubles Martin. Posters appear, messages on television, even planes riding in the sky, all repeating the same thing.

00:57Thank you, Chuck, for those 39 years. No one really knows who Chuck is. No one understands the origin of these messages.

01:05Martin suspects that perhaps it is just a strange viral joke, the last one in a world that is falling apart.

01:11There are key details in this third act. Martin observes a door at the top of his house, one that seems to hide something more than wood and paint.

01:22Then he talks with Felicia about the cosmic calendar, that idea that the 15 billion years of the universe, if compressed into a single calendar year,

01:31would make our human existence nothing more than a sigh in the last second.

01:36The next day, Felicia finds the hospital where she works, empty. However, all the monitors in the place are turned on, all in perfect synchronization,

01:46as if they had found a hidden language that humans cannot yet read.

01:50Martin, for his part, on this new day, unable to use the car because of the chaos in the streets, decides to walk to Felicia's house.

01:57On the way, he meets Sam, an elderly funeral homeowner, who reveals a disturbing truth.

02:04Before, days lasted 23 hours and 56 minutes, and now they last 24 hours and 2 minutes.

02:11The Earth is slowing down. The days are getting longer, as if the universe itself were announcing the end of its rhythm.

02:19Help me reach 10 likes and 5 comments.

02:22Comment, the important thing is to get there. Martin understands it immediately.

02:28If time stretches, maybe everything else is slowly breaking apart, and Sam adds a phrase that resonates like a sentence.

02:35Mathematics is art, and art does not lie.

02:39When Martin arrives at Felicia's neighborhood, he comes across a girl skating alone in the street.

02:44She says she knows Felicia, describes her as a very nice woman, and in that instant, all the houses go dark.

02:51In their windows, there is only one projection left, the announcement that repeats over and over again,

02:57Thank you, Chuck.

02:58Martin, between the fear and uncertainty of what is happening, asks the girl to go back to her parents,

03:05and so he heads toward Felicia's house, who, trembling, admits her suspicion, the end is near.

03:11Suddenly, the movie shows us Chuck on a hospital stretcher,

03:15his vital signs beating to the rhythm that the monitors in Felicia's hospital were marking.

03:19A woman and a child accompany him, but the image returns to Martin and Felicia.

03:25Not knowing what else to do, they simply decide to sit in the garden to contemplate the sky.

03:30That, free of the city's artificial lights, reveals stars shining like never before.

03:36Martin, a teacher as we know, points out constellations and planets to his ex-wife,

03:41until, one by one, those stars begin to disappear.

03:45Felicia is terrified, the universe is shutting down, and in the hospital, the woman whispers to Chuck that

03:52it is time to move on, to simply let go.

03:55The child with them bursts into tears and says,

03:5839 years, but the woman corrects him.

04:0139 great years.

04:04Thank you, Chuck.

04:05In the garden, Martin tries to say his last words to Felicia.

04:08We manage to hear him say, I love you, but the entire universe turns black.

04:14Without any warning, the story opens to the second act, titled Street Performers.

04:20A narrator introduces us to Taylor, a young woman who, with the help of a friend,

04:25sets up a drum kit in the middle of the street to earn money with her art.

04:29People pass by, some look, others ignore, but among them, the one who stops is Chuck,

04:34a simple accountant who was walking with his briefcase, and here, the unexpected happens.

04:39Instead of continuing his gray routine, he stays, listens, and somehow the rhythm begins to captivate him.

04:46He leaves his briefcase on the ground, as if for an instant, renouncing that accountant identity,

04:51and gives himself over to the dance.

04:54He pulls a stranger from the crowd to dance with him, and, against all expectations,

04:58they dance with a precision and passion no one could imagine.

05:02The audience is mesmerized by this, and the hat that was waiting for coins begins to fill with bills.

05:09Taylor smiles when the show ends.

05:11It has been a very successful afternoon for her.

05:13The girl shares the earnings with Janice, the other girl, and Chuck,

05:17telling them they could make a lot of money if they dedicated themselves to art.

05:21But Chuck, still captivated between the rhythm and his own doubt, refuses.

05:25He doesn't see himself capable of a life change at this point,

05:28and when Taylor asks him why he stopped walking to dance to the music she was playing,

05:33when he could have perfectly well just walked on by,

05:36Chuck stays silent for a moment,

05:38and not even he himself understands what made him break his routine,

05:42so he simply answers that he doesn't know.

05:46Taylor walks away with her friend, and Chuck decides to walk alongside Janice.

05:50On the way, she confesses to having recently broken up with her boyfriend,

05:53and, laughing, she says that if the video of their dance goes viral and she comes across it,

05:59she will send it to her ex with a message saying,

06:02Look what you missed.

06:03Chuck, without big words for her, only replies that she will be fine.

06:07Sometimes, a simple gesture is worth more than any speech.

06:11Finally, both arrive at a corner where their paths separate,

06:14and in that farewell, a detail appears that seems casual,

06:18but ties together the threads of this story.

06:20A girl on roller skates passes in front of them,

06:23and it is the same girl Marty had seen in Felicia's neighborhood.

06:27And so, with this image that plants questions,

06:30the second act closes, announcing that in the next one,

06:33many pieces of the puzzle will begin to find their place.

06:37The first act of the movie is called I Contain Multitudes.

06:40It begins with a tragedy that marks Chuck's destiny.

06:44The narrator tells us that when he was just a child,

06:46Chuck lost his parents in a car accident when they were on their way to dinner.

06:51But fate's blow did not end there.

06:53His mother was pregnant at that time,

06:55and in that same accident, the baby she was expecting also died.

06:59A little sister that Chuck knew would arrive someday,

07:02and whom he never got to meet.

07:04A life barely dreamed, that was extinguished even before it began.

07:09That shadow of pain remained in Chuck's grandparents' house,

07:12where he ended up living.

07:13Abby and Sarah, who raised him from then on.

07:16For a year and a half, the silence and weight of the tragedy dominated their lives.

07:22His grandfather sought refuge in alcohol and his work as an accountant,

07:26while his grandmother seemed incapable of finding joy in anything.

07:30But time, as always, imposed its rhythm.

07:33When Chuck was 10 years old,

07:35his grandmother found a path back to the happiness she once had,

07:39and all through cooking, her great passion.

07:41She returned to preparing meals while dancing rock and roll,

07:45inviting Chuck to share that moment,

07:47an intimate and radiant scene that we later see reflected in the dance steps

07:52Chuck repeats with Janice in the second act we witnessed,

07:55as if the echoes of life were made of repetitions and memories.

08:00However, not everything was light.

08:02The narrator highlights a detail that seems laden with mystery.

08:05At the top of the house where Chuck lived with his grandparents,

08:09there was a room he was forbidden to enter.

08:11A sealed door, almost symbolic,

08:14that reminds us of the same one we saw in Marty's house during the third act.

08:18When Chuck asked why he could not cross it,

08:21his grandparents told him that the floor was rotten,

08:24and that he might fall if he dared to go in.

08:27And as if wanting to downplay the whole matter,

08:29his grandmother added that from that window up there,

08:32the only thing one could see was a shopping mall, nothing interesting.

08:36An answer that, rather than closing the enigma, made it even deeper.

08:41That vision of a simple shopping mall from the upstairs room changed one night

08:45when Chuck and his grandfather were watching television,

08:48where they were talking about the cosmic calendar.

08:50And between glasses of whiskey,

08:53the grandfather confessed that what could be seen from that room

08:55were not people, but ghosts.

08:58Ghosts of the future.

08:59The grandfather mentioned names, stories, broken destinies.

09:04And when the grandmother returned,

09:06Chuck asked her about those supposed ghosts.

09:09With a sigh, she tried to downplay the matter,

09:12saying that her husband, the grandfather,

09:14talked too much when he drank.

09:16But when the boy asked about one of the names his grandfather had mentioned,

09:20Jeffries, the grandmother froze.

09:23She said that it was a boy from the neighborhood who had died tragically

09:27while chasing his ball without looking around and being run over.

09:32The next day, Chuck offered to take a sweet his grandmother had baked to a sick neighbor,

09:37and he asked her about the other name his grandfather had mentioned.

09:41The woman confirmed that he was a real man,

09:45an accountant who had ended his life in the darkness of suffering and loneliness.

09:50He decided to take his life after his wife of more than 40 years ran away in love with a boy

09:58who had just reached adulthood.

10:00But before Chuck's innocence, the woman decided to stop there,

10:04since there are truths that only adults are destined to endure.

10:08One day in class, the movie introduces us to Miss Richards, one of Chuck's teachers,

10:15who recites a poem by Walt Whitman,

10:18the same author referenced in Act 3 at the beginning of the movie.

10:22In that poem comes the phrase,

10:25I contain multitudes,

10:27and when class ends,

10:29Chuck approaches to ask the teacher what it really means.

10:32The teacher explains that it is a powerful metaphor.

10:37It speaks of the entire universes that live in the mind of every human being,

10:42formed by the people we have met,

10:45the places we have seen,

10:46the things we have heard,

10:48but also by everything that our imagination keeps creating.

10:53With each passing year,

10:55that inner world grows and keeps expanding.

10:58And those are the multitudes referred to in Whitman's verses.

11:03And as a subtle detail,

11:05when Chuck leaves the classroom after speaking with his teacher,

11:09he passes in front of another room where we see a professor

11:13who looks identical to Marty.

11:16Shortly after,

11:17the narrator reveals that Chuck's grandmother passed away

11:20after suffering an attack in the supermarket,

11:23and in a gesture of innocence and pain,

11:26young Chuck goes to the place to ask what exactly happened.

11:31There,

11:32one of the employees shows him the exact aisle where it all took place,

11:37recounting how his grandmother collapsed,

11:40dragging everything around her in her fall.

11:43It is a brief but melancholy moment

11:45that reminds us how life can shatter in an instant,

11:49and how that emptiness adds up to the multitudes we carry within.

11:53One night,

11:55while his grandfather slept drunk,

11:57trying to drown the pain of his wife's death,

12:00Chuck took the key to the forbidden room.

12:03When he opened it,

12:04he only managed to see darkness,

12:06because before he could turn on the light,

12:09his grandfather dragged him out,

12:11yelling at him not to do it.

12:12However,

12:13in that same fraction of a second,

12:16the old man had seen something that left him pale,

12:20as if the secret hidden there weighed more than his own life.

12:24Trying to escape from those shadows,

12:26Chuck found refuge in dancing,

12:28a passion he had inherited from his grandmother

12:31when she cooked and twirled around the kitchen

12:33to the rhythm of the music.

12:35In a school workshop he signed up for,

12:38the boy began to show his unusual talent,

12:40standing out alongside a girl much taller than him.

12:45Together they created choreographies that moved everyone,

12:48until she invited him to dance with her at the end of year dance.

12:52Although she made it clear,

12:54of course,

12:54that it wasn't a date,

12:56she was already dating someone named Dougie,

12:58but she thought it would be nice to show the rest of the school what they could do.

13:02For Chuck,

13:03that invitation was more than just a dance.

13:06It was a small light in the midst of the secrets and the weight of his home.

13:12One night,

13:12while studying math with his grandfather,

13:15he suggested to Chuck that he join the school math club the following year.

13:20But Chuck refused the idea.

13:22His passion was dancing,

13:24and to him,

13:24numbers were nothing but boredom.

13:27That's when his grandfather,

13:28with a firm voice,

13:30revealed a truth his grandson didn't want to hear.

13:33Mathematics is in everything we see,

13:36even in dance.

13:38Every step,

13:40every rhythm,

13:41is nothing more than a dance of numbers.

13:43And he added that although the world loves dancers,

13:47it is the cold logic of statistics

13:49that reminds us there is more future in being an accountant

13:52than in the dance Chuck loved so much.

13:56Discouraged,

13:57Chuck broke inside,

13:58and when the night of the school dance came,

14:00he refused to dance,

14:01inventing a clumsy excuse about a hurt leg.

14:05But his teacher,

14:06who had seen too many young dancers sick and injured

14:08throughout her years of teaching,

14:10discovered it immediately.

14:12She told him that if he didn't want to dance,

14:14that was fine,

14:15but lying,

14:16that was another matter.

14:18Chuck went outside to get some air,

14:20and found a starry mite whispering a truth

14:23different from the one his grandfather had told him.

14:25When he returned,

14:27the boy gathered his courage,

14:29took his dance partner to the floor,

14:31and together they left everyone astonished.

14:34Among those present,

14:35we recognized some faces we had already seen in this story,

14:39such as Felicia's.

14:41When the applause filled the room,

14:42and the others asked for more and more,

14:45Chuck decided it was better to leave at the highest point,

14:48just as he would do as an adult in his street dancing.

14:51And so he stepped away amid shouts and claps,

14:54and before sitting down,

14:56he received the most unexpected reward for him,

14:59a kiss from his dance partner.

15:01The narrator's voice tells that six months before dying at 39,

15:06a victim of a brain tumor,

15:08Chuck revealed to his wife the truth about a scar he carried on his hand.

15:12For years,

15:13he had said that some guy named Doggy had caused it

15:16by pushing him against a fence for dancing with his girlfriend.

15:19But the reality was different.

15:22That night,

15:23after the dance and the kiss that made him feel invincible,

15:26Chuck went out alone under the starry sky,

15:29and as he let himself be carried by the rhythm still burning in his feet,

15:34he brushed his hand against a fence,

15:36marking his skin with a wound

15:37that would become the most honest memory of his youth.

15:42Five years after that dance,

15:44Chuck's grandfather died when he was already in high school.

15:47At the funeral,

15:49Chuck met the funeral home owner,

15:51who turned out to be the same old man that Marte had encountered

15:54walking toward Felicia's neighborhood.

15:57And just like in that meeting,

15:59the old man confessed that his dream had been to become a meteorologist,

16:03but he ended up opening a funeral home.

16:06A funeral home where,

16:07coincidentally,

16:08Chuck's grandfather had managed the accounts for 23 years.

16:13Eventually,

16:13Chuck's other grandparents moved in to take care of him,

16:16since he was only 17 at the time,

16:19and after the funeral,

16:20while going through some things,

16:22Chuck found the key to the upstairs room

16:24and decided to go in.

16:27At first,

16:28it was an empty room with a lit window,

16:30but as he turned to leave,

16:32that's when he saw it,

16:34a stretcher on which he himself lay,

16:36about to die.

16:38The narrator recounts that when his grandfather

16:40had entered that same place,

16:42he too had seen ghosts of the future,

16:44the boy who would be hit by a car,

16:47his accountant colleague hanging,

16:49his dead wife,

16:50and probably that night,

16:52when Chuck had stolen the keys,

16:54the old man had seen himself dying from the attack

16:57that eventually took his life.

16:59Now it was Chuck's turn.

17:01That room showed him that his fate would be

17:03to die on a hospital stretcher

17:05with a tumor in his head.

17:07The boy remembered his grandfather's words,

17:10once told to him,

17:11waiting is the worst.

17:14And it was at that moment

17:15that Chuck understood,

17:17knowing how he would die,

17:19but not when,

17:20was a waiting that would accompany him

17:21until his last breath.

17:24The man on the stretcher faded,

17:26disappeared,

17:27and in that instant,

17:28Chuck promised himself

17:30to make the most of life

17:31because he was someone wonderful,

17:34because he deserved to be,

17:35and because,

17:36like every human being,

17:38he contained multitudes.

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