Since I found out that he went out, I waited with anxiety and trepidation that Rescue Dawn was released in Italy. Months have passed but has not yet seen anything on the horizon, which is why I am committed to recover at least a vision in the original language (which I'm glad I did), though it continues to ask the reason for this ignorance. In the end, although I'm not a marketing expert, I believe that it is not just a movie unsaleable. Another of the many mysteries of the Italian distribution.
Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is a German-born American pilot during the war in Vietnam is sent to accomplish a secret mission over Laos. Shot down by enemy machine guns, was captured, tortured and incarcerated in a prison camp of the Pathet Lao. Together with five other fellow detainees, including the soldier Dwaine Martin (Steve Zahn), Dieter organizes a lucky escape she can tear to which they would face certain death.
Taking the story (really happened) of his own documentary I want to fly the small Dieter , dated 1997, Werner Herzog directing a war movie after all that is not strictly military issue but should be seen as an introspective film about the psychological condition the prison and its various aspects. Rescue Dawn è un film quasi sempre sussurrato, basato principalmente sulla capacità attoriale sovrumana di Christian Bale e sulle doti, fin'ora nascoste, di Steve Zahn. Anche Jeremy Davies, che interpreta un altro prigioniero del campo, lascia esterrefatti con la sua abilità. L'effetto di realisimo poi è stato ottenuto dal dimagrimento esagerato a cui si sono sottoposti gli attori, che hanno perso rispettivamente 25 kg, 18 kg e 15 kg. Mi auguro che Bale abbia un dietologo, perché se continua così si rischia di giocarselo, e per il cinema contemporaneo sarebbe una perdita inimmaginabile.
Voto: 8 / 10