Sunday, January 13, 2008

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Paranoid Park

Welcome to the second episode, after Atonement, the series "if I had seen before, it entered the charts at the end of year." Too bad that, due to the closure of a film club that could lead to Vicenza hardest to find all the movies, things come around here with a month late. Unless you are satisfied with De Sica, but it is not my case and I hope it is not even yours.
Alex (Gabe Nevins) is a teenage skater who wanders without ideals and without suction in an empty city. The only times when you feel alive are those who pass on his table, especially after discovering that Paranoid Park is the title of the film. One night, unintentionally causes the death of a guard monitoring and will then have to deal with their guilt.
The description of the plot is certainly simplistic, but in fact what makes Paranoid Park a great film is not so much what happens, but as it is told. The training of the protagonist, including the disadvantaged family and guilt, between the "girlfriend" and the pervasive sense of belonging a una comunità che tale non è, procede senza colpi di scena, in maniera quasi apatica, e viene seguito dal regista con un freddo distacco che rispecchia in fondo l'atteggiamento di Alex nei confronti del mondo che gli sta intorno. Gus Van Sant, dopo il passo indietro di Last Days , torna ad avanzare sul proprio cammino artistico con un'opera fatta di pochi ma intelligenti dialoghi e di immagini ispirate e ispiranti. La narrazione a incastro, che poteva appesantire lo svolgimento del racconto, riesce invece a risultare naturale come la brillante recitazione del protagonista Gabe Nevins, alla sua prima interpretazione. La poesia di alcune scene rende giustizia al premio ricevuto a Cannes dal regista, che conferma (come se ce ne fosse bisogno) their talent.

Rating: 8 / 10

Friday, January 11, 2008

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I Am Legend


Not having seen the two previous film adaptations of the homonymous book by Richard Matheson, I have not read, and Avedo not even seen the first film directed by Francis Lawrence , Constantine, the expectations for this movie I was sufficiently high and free from any kind of injury. Actually the contrary, the presence of Will Smith and his performance from one-man-show made me hope to see a work more than adequate.
Three years after the outbreak of an epidemic that has wiped out almost the entire population of the Earth and turned the remainder into a sort of undead that wander in the darkness, Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man left on the planet. Accompanied by his dog Sam, the survivor spends his days trying to find a cure to degenerative disease of the "zombies" and pulling out as it can to meet their physical and psychological needs.
The fascinating history of the last man on earth is well known to all and is easy for Lawrence to maintain a high level of attention of the viewer inserting the description of the unusual life of the protagonist with more action scenes in which it must deal with the beings around him. Although these were not made very well on screen, and you wonder why computer use graphic when just a good makeup artist, give moments of tension is not indifferent, and some jump on the chair is made without batting an eyelid. However, despite yet another confirmation of the quality of Smith as an actor, the rest of the film leaves something 'to be desired. Will the dialogues, since they are only a few could be written in a somewhat 'deeper will be the plot, just after the mid-film comedians to crack, will be the aforementioned villains , that ultimately are little more than mediocre, but what comes out at the end is a movie that can thrill and that certainly looks happy, but that probably would have said something more. Luckily, there is Will Smith.

Rating: 7 / 10