The PG-13 rating has the effect of making the most consequential element of the story - the deaths of millions - happen tastefully offscreen, out of sight, out of mind. San Andreas certainly delivers the goods, effects-wise, although no one over five will buy the part where Dwayne and Carla cruise through downtown San Francisco in a motorboat while managing not to hit the floating remnants of the whole frigging city. He hits more realistic, complicated notes as a nice guy than a jerk. In San Andreas, Paul Giamatti plays the Caltech seismologist who compels his students to hack into a live news feed so he can tell San Francisco (I’m paraphrasing), Motherfucking run!!!!!!! Giamatti is actually very good - more credible, I think, than he is in the upcoming prestige indie biopic Love and Mercy, in which he plays Brian Wilson’s therapist, Eugene Landy, as a frothing Rasputin. There is also, I’m convinced, a more modern yearning to watch a lab assistant gasp, “Professor, you need to see this,” and the professor fasten his eyes on the read-out and say, “Oh … my … God.” I love that stuff. There might well be a desire - rooted in an ancient region of the human brain - to inoculate oneself against fear by envisioning the worst. A parent rehearses in his or her mind the rescue of a child.
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A child does indeed long for proof that its parent will not run away.
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Americans don’t roll over, not even when they’re hit by hundred-foot walls of water.Ĭlunky as the movie is, I can’t laugh off the evolutionary needs to which San Andreas speaks. Says Dwayne: “She’s gone, you’re gone, what’s the point?” He might have added, “L.A.’s gone, San Fran’s gone, most of California’s gone … ” But the “point,” it emerges, is that Dwayne will not lose another daughter to drowning, incoming killer tsunami be damned. is the film’s emotional spine, considerably lengthened for a scene in which she muses on what life would have been like if Mallory had lived. (Did I mention that the daughter was starting school there? It’s every parent’s nightmare that his or her child will leave the nest and arrive at college on the exact same day as an earthquake of world-historic proportions.) Dwayne and Carla’s journey from L.A. (Did I mention that much of Los Angeles is also leveled?) Then he must fly with her to San Francisco to rescue their daughter. Now he must rescue his wife (still his wife, barely) from the top of a crumbling L.A. Dwayne, it turns out, hadn’t been able to save his other daughter, Mallory, from drowning on a rafting trip, which led to the crisis of masculinity that led to the divorce that led to the earthquake (metaphorically). Patriarchal responsibility, filial devotion: big themes. Fortunately for Dwayne, the San Andreas Fault cracks along its entire length, sending millions of Californians and Nevadans to their deaths and giving him one last chance to prove that he can be more present in his wife and daughter’s lives. It seems that his wife, played by Carla Gugino, is moving in with a Richie Rich architect (Ioan Gruffud) and bringing along their teenage daughter, played by Alexandra Daddario, whose luminous blue eyes make her plainly the child of neither of these people.
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fire and rescue chief who comes home - after swinging from a helicopter and pulling a blonde from a car perpendicular to the side of cliff a millisecond before the vehicle plunges thousands of feet into the crevice - to find divorce papers waiting. Dwayne Johnson and his torso occupy their usual two thirds of the wide screen as an L.A.
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In San Andreas, San Francisco disintegrates while a disintegrated family is restored to wholeness, which the movie presents as a net plus for humankind.