Niro's 'Hope Springs': Film Analysis

Robert De Niro has made a career playing gangsters and hardened criminals in films like ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Casino’ and ‘The Godfather: Part II’, which is why it’s so resoundingly impactful when he plays a nice, emotionally susceptible man in films like ‘Meet the Parents’. Nancy Meyer’s has made a career capitalizing on subtle feminism and perfectly encapsulating periods in life. Anne Hathaway is one of the best actresses to ever grace the silver screen, and she’s never made a film in which her charm didn’t vastly improve upon the film at hand. All of these accolades are what excited me for this film, and thankfully the film doesn’t disappoint even remotely.
Sometimes a film comes along and it’s not perfect, it’s not terrible, it’s just good. I don’t mean that in a negative way either, this film is remarkably good at what it does. Throughout the entire duration of this film I had a massive smile across my face that you couldn’t wipe off with bleach. Every frame of this film is riddled …show more content…
This film isn’t as abrasive and in your face about it as ‘Hope Springs’ was, but this film does bring some really honest insight into the life of someone trying to cope with the loss of youth. Unlike most other “losing of age” films De Niro’s character is never made to dwell on the fact that he’s no longer a sprightly youngster, he’s actually relatively happy as he is, but he needs to keep moving in order to ward off the hole created by loss due to time. There’s a line early on in the film that resonated with me deeply, it was regarding numerous funerals, and it got me thinking. Everyone I currently know, no matter what, whoever dies first will go to the other’s funeral. It’s weird to know that you’re going to eventually lose those you love to ravish of time, either that or they’ll lose you, and De Niro’s character here deals with that very