The Intern 4K 2015 2160p WEB-DL

70-year-old widower Ben Whitaker discovers that retirement is not over. Taking this opportunity, he becomes a senior intern at the fashion site under the direction of Jules Austin.

The Intern 4K Review
Seventy-year-old Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro), after the death of his wife, suffers so much from idleness that he decides to start working again. Since the business to which he devoted most of his life has long ceased to exist, Ben gets a job as an intern at an online fashion store and becomes a personal assistant to the founder of the company Jules Austin (Anne Hathaway). Although Whittaker knows little about online commerce, his life experience, old-fashioned masculinity and fatherly solicitude prove to be very useful for the young employees of the firm. Especially for Jules, who desperately needs someone who would listen to her, regretted and supported her.

The protagonist of the film can be anyone, even a computer-drawn raccoon with a futuristic automaton. Only one character is not suitable for this - a happy person. At least in genre cinema. Pop culture consists of stories about the search and achievement of happiness, and the happy hero has nothing to seek and achieve. Like a drunken alcoholic, he has "everything with him." Such a character can live on the outskirts of the plot and help the main character, but the film cannot be his story, because he has no story - only boundless happiness.

As you probably already guessed, we are transparently hinting that director and screenwriter Nancy Meyers (“What Women Want”, “Love By Rules ... and Without,” “Simple Difficulties”) made a mistake with the choice of the main character. Ben Whittaker is too happy for that. Yes, at the beginning of the film, he misses his wife and work. But when there are no other problems in the life of a seventy-year-old man, he is much happier than 99% of humanity. And Ben just misses, not tormented by black depression. He is cheerful, smart, smiling, he does not indulge in gloomy thoughts even at the funeral of old friends, and he is not at all embarrassed that among the young employees of the Austin company he at first seems like a mossy dinosaur. And this is not an American show with an “oke”, even during a catastrophe. Whittaker is sincerely happy from the beginning to the end of the film, and therefore it is impossible to empathize with him - only to envy and admire.

The painting was originally developed with Michael Caine and Tina Fey in mind. Reese Witherspoon later claimed the lead female role.
Such a hero could be the central character only in a film about absolutely happy people, against whom Ben would seem not peaceful enough and not smiling broadly enough. But The Trainee, of course, is not such a movie, and therefore Whittaker was supposed to be his Yoda, not Luke Skywalker. The central character of Meyers' painting should have been made Jules Austin - a woman who, to Ben's happiness, is like the moon.

At first glance, however, this is not visible, since Jules at first appears to be the same object of admiration as Ben. Her business is thriving and expanding, she is engaged in a beloved business, and at home a charming daughter and an attractive husband, who became a householder, when his wife's business went uphill, awaits her. However, in the course of the action, it becomes clear that Jules is a victim of his own success. Her business swells so quickly that it gets out of control, investors are demanding that she turn over management to an outside director, Jules employees are even less experienced than she is, her daughter suffers from a lack of maternal attention, and her husband supports Jules in words, but not in business. He is visibly suffering from the fact that he gave up his career when his wife began to earn good money. Jules's life is a tangle of pressing modern problems, and untangling this tangle could become the basis for a powerful family-professional drama. And not necessarily gloomy or tragic. Hollywood is great at shooting tense, dramatic tapes with a happy ending.

Meyers, however, is a different specialist. Her strong point is beautiful romantic comedies with a minimum of deep conflicts. Therefore, she shows Jules' life not from the inside, but from the outside - through the eyes of a happy outsider. Ben's point of view softens the narrative and dampens it, because Whittaker Jules is not the wife, daughter, lover, or even the boss who could make or destroy his career. Her problems concern him only as a good Samaritan, sharing his happiness with those around him. And Austin turns out to be not the center of the narrative, but only the most significant of Ben's several protégés, whom the hero listens to, supports and teaches wisdom. It is significant that the audience only in the second half of the film will learn how bad everything is in the heroine's life. Although, it would seem, a two-hour movie should have found time for this much earlier.

This is the third co-production of Robert De Niro and Rene Russo after The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Show Begins. In "Trainee" Russo played a full-time masseuse in the firm of the protagonist
As a result, instead of a deep and intense canvas, we got a sentimental comedy with a few dramatic notes, which devotes only a little more time to Jules's family crisis than Ben's admonitions about wearing suits and ties (his colleagues who are used to T-shirts do not even know why a man needs a headscarf in his pocket. jacket).

Yes, "The Intern" is one of the most enjoyable films of this year, and sincerity and goodness, coupled with good humor, are pouring from the screen. And yes, in our time it is sometimes useful to remind viewers that there is a lot to learn from older people and that traditional values ​​should not be scrapped. But we think that against the backdrop of films and TV series about Zuckerberg, Jobs and other male network entrepreneurs, both real and fictional, it would be interesting to see a serious, thoughtful tape about a married woman building a successful Internet business. And not an ingenuous movie that reduces all Jules's problems to the fact that because of a bad relationship with her mother, a woman has no one to complain to, to be patted on the head and told that she is a good fellow and a clever one. Of course, this is also important, but I want more ... Especially from such a long history. For a comedy of this kind, two hours is too much.