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Pieles (2017)
We are Freaks
Eduardo Casanova directs a film as grandiose as it is simple and enjoyable.The photograph of this film makes sure that the viewer can not take his eyes off the screen. The colors and the freshness of the images proposed by the director are the background to a story with freaks, marginalized people living on the margins of society.Each character presented in the film is well characterized and diversified by others. Casanova does not just tell about those who have a different and particular appearance, but adds to the story characters with disturbances, perverts and mentalities different from the rest of the mass.The ideal of normality is thus deconstructed, showing people with a "normal" appearance with mental deviations and "freaks" with "normal" mentality, thus destroying the Manichaean vision of those who think that the right and wrong in nature exist.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
One of the greatest films of the '90s
It is difficult to define one genre for this masterpiece:Coen Brothers combine comedy with various elements of the noir movies, such as the abundance of characters linked to each other through secret ties that reveal the rottenness behind everyone.Our protagonist is not the usual policeman or private investigator damned and alcoholic, but a complete idler,Jeffrey Lebowski(interpreted by Jeff Bridges) who will be meddled in a case of alleged kidnapping. The film is set in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, with characters well-outlined and marked by a story behind, many of which are just victims of events that live or are forced to live.
The Jeffrey Lebowski characterization is gorgeous: a middle-aged lover of bowling and white Russian (this movie will make you want to drink one immediately!),in which there is a great influence of Taoist philosophy.Jeffrey abides all the events that come to him, staying calm and never getting angry.Just like a Taoist sage, he does practically nothing to change his situation. He never takes position in doing something, he always finds himself victim of the events.
The protagonist is joined by Walter (played by John Goodman), representing Jeffrey's complete opposite: this character is in fact presumptuous and violent; he is angry at all (the scene where he threatens to shoot an acquaintance only because he broke a rule of Bowling is awesome) and takes the situation in hand, turning it completely.The contrast between the two is functional: like the yin and the yang, the two friends complement each other creating a balance between disorder and order, activity and passivity.
Photography and direction are sublime, the only opening scene is worth more than whole films. The Coen brothers manage to focus the attention of the spectator on objects and minutia, even with mute shots and without giving much explanation. Salient points are then highlighted by the scenes in which the protagonist is out of his own (as when it is hit in the head) in which his subconscious frees up and transforms Jeffrey's desires and thoughts into true images. In the visions are actually present the bowling, carpet and daughter of the homonym Mr Lebowski dressed as a Valkyrie (surely to mark the nationality of the nihilists with whom she had to do).The soundtrack is very good for the film, so it is connected to Lebowski as much as his dressing gown and cocktails.
End up finally recommending this movie to anyone: that you love the investigative films or the comedies you can not do without this movie! You can see it with your family in cheerfulness and tranquility, or have a thorough insight into the Freudian nature of visions and the well-delineated philosophy of the characters and still enjoy this masterpiece, which would definitely be seen at least once in life.
Bronson (2008)
A journey into the mind of a psychopath
Bronson is,in my opinion,one of the best Refn's movies. This one tell the story of Michael Gordon Peterson also known as Charles Bronson, the most violent British prisoner.
I think this film can be considered one of the best biographical films ever made,the brilliant choice of the director to unite surreal scenes to the real facts turns out to be very good for the kind of story he wants to tell: the scenes set in a dreamlike and metaphysical theater in which the protagonist interacts with the spectator allowing us to fall into his madness. Unlike most of the films of this genre, who aspire to tell the story of a character presenting certain moments of his life, Bronson enters the spectator within the life and the view of the protagonist, in this case a violent psychopath, with scenes at Absurdity limit (just think of the already mentioned scenes of the stage of the theater or to the Tom Hardy voluntarily woody and rigid interpretation).
I recommend this movie to all those who are looking for an ultimate enjoyment experience: everything from cast to soundtrack (digital versicolor is awesome), is perfect!