Wicked 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

A long time ago, a girl was born to the family of the mayor of Munchkinland. Not just any girl, but a green one... and, as it turns out, not from the mayor, but from a visiting merchant who sold his wife a certain green potion. The girl is named Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and is disliked by the whole village for her unlike the others. Years later Elphaba comes to see off her sister Nessarose (Marrisa Bode) at Shiz Academy, but by chance she stays there: the university director Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) discovers that the girl has magical abilities and promises to meet the Wizard of Oz. All her life Elphaba dreamed of this meeting, but for the sake of it she has to suffer humiliation from her classmates and cohabitation with a spoiled blonde named Galinda (Ariana Grande-Butera in the credits), then, as it turns out, removed the letter “a” from her name.

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Everything good that America has given the world has come from either the assembly line or Broadway. That mythical phrase is not mine, it's the legendary John Ford's. And it's no accident that the director said it. Only the movies brought the first and the second together. It is musicals today, proving the non-existent law of cyclical history, come out as if on a conveyor belt.

Singing has already begun in comic books, in purely auteur films and even abolitionist dramas. As annoying as it may be to some, it is the musical that is the most complete movie genre. The one where classic Hollywood blossomed, demonstrating the full breadth of possibilities of the most important of arts, and the one where the industry arrived almost 100 years later.

'Wicked', a prequel adaptation from the 'Wizard of Oz' universe, already claims to be one of, if not the best musical in history. The plot chosen is one of the most unique in the history of wordplay. The little girl Dorothy and her twin Ellie from Volkoff's adaptation is a rare example of insane popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. American, German, Japanese, and Soviet children knew from a young age where the yellow brick road led and why you couldn't walk through a field of red poppies. Such a bridge on sturdy stilts through the years, wars of different temperatures and compliant misanderstandings.

Overall, the whole story of 'Wicked' is a struggle against misunderstanding and an exploration of where evil comes from. Born a green baby girl, Elphaba possesses unusual magical skills from diaper time. Faced with bullying, abusive behavior, and other modern words with old as the world problems behind them, she accidentally enrolls in Sheez University where her abilities can be combed.

Her vis-a-vis is the perfect pink girl Glinda, as if taken from a Barbie doll window, dreaming of the same thing but obviously possessing other virtues. 'Wicked', starting as a story of enmity, grows into an apologia of friendship, empathy and a heightened sense of justice.

One of the movie's main virtues is its paradoxical rhythmics. The elaborate choreography of the numbers, which uses as props almost everything around the characters, is overlooked in just under three hours of chronology. The dances, songs, and eurythmic dialog are as much an engine of the story as the editing and camerawork spans. The cast helps a lot here - pink-born Ariana Grande isn't afraid to be funny and creates a comic effect, while Cynthia Erivo's skillful voice acting gives drama.

In 'Wicked', the creators achieve near maximum impact with CGI and other visual trappings, a reminder of the role of movies at the height of their power. Cinema is made for entertainment and its importance is determined by how often the viewer's mouth opens in an amazed smile Meanings, editing techniques, other elements of movie language - everything is secondary. Cinema is entertainment, and then art.

However, 'Wicked' has no problems with conceptual load either. Behind the persecution of animals (magnificent Dinklage as a goat-professor) there are racist attacks, Elphaba's ordeal is still Jungianism on the theme of the nature of evil, and Prince Fiero's love affairs are a good teenage prose in the context of youthful fickleness and the conditionality of choosing a partner.

By turning much of the movie into another Hogwarts (though it looks like the 'Wansday' universe too), director Jon Chu (the second 'Illusion of Deception') exposes, above all, pubertal psychology - the source of almost all complexes and subsequent woes. Though he writes a textbook case of acceptance, some sort of natural tolerance placed inside everyone.

It's important for 'Wicked' not to lose its mythological underpinnings either. With neat pass-hacks, we are let into the world of a possible franchise. Here it is the Emerald City, here is the road of yellow bricks, here is the city of tinkerers - to imagine in this universe in a couple or three movies Dorothy with a dog Toto - a task without an asterisk even for the most unsophisticated children's imagination. The tale has absolutely everything it needs to become a new Christmas classic.

As a result, 'Wicked' is a near-perfect movie in the family guilty pleasure category. Children, as they are supposed to, will ask a bunch of important questions, and parents will finally be able to find the answers to them. While from the screen the movie will sound, ring, rattle, rattle, rattle, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, trumpet, drum, and so on in a circle.

Movie magic, purest, as it were. So what are the Oscar questions here? If the best way to return the industry to its best years mankind has not yet invented?

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (63.7 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos 5.1
#French: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
#Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital Plus 7.1

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese Traditional), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, French (Canadian), German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin American), Thai, Vietnamese.