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Spider Man 3

Incorporeal like ('man) sand

Original title: Spider-man 3
Director: Sam Raimi
Year: 2007
Production: USA
Length: 156 minutes
Genre: fantasy / action
rating: SV

What does the master Alfred Hitchcock with the third chapter in the saga of Spider-Man? Apparently nothing yet, the key reading for the new film by Sam Raimi, lies in a historic statement by the late British director. Hitch argued that "the more successful the villain and the more successful the film" ... well, Spider-man 3 there are three bad guys (actually four if you count the dark side of the same character with whom Peter Parker is fighting for a good half) but nobody can be as effective as the 'Harry Osborne William Dafoe and Alfred Molina of the Octopus.
This is the main defect of a film that, despite the considerable time - almost two and a half hours - has several loopholes in the screenplay.
The film proceeds in fits and starts, beginning in way too slow (we're still talking about a fumettone), recovering in the middle and falling - it's appropriate to say - in a finale that was required to "close the circle" and remove too much meat before putting the fire .
Leaving the room has the feeling that he too wanted to pull the rope (or web) and have remained out of gas halfway. Complex characters and in the life of Peter as Venom and Gwen Stacy end up as mere extras, pins individual scenes that are not sufficiently developed narrative.
probably are not even justifiable criticism because of the excessive claims of this film are far from wanting to achieve immortality of historical films, but Raimi - as well as Nolan, Burton Singer before him - has demonstrated that the balance between entertainment and authorship is not a utopia.
If someone claims that it is inconsistent compared to what Raimi Spidey's a McFarlane, or Miller, or Romita ... - And it is very acceptable given that the language of film is different from that of the comic - it is nevertheless true that the film in question resembles more a fumettone rather than a film.
In this third episode, the authorial choices Raimi, perhaps forced by others and then, one wonders to what extent authorial, not fully convincing. First of all, the director shows the uncertainty in remaining poised between comedy and drama, exhausting the tones in both directions and failing to find the perfect balance that had characterized the two previous films. Remain above in mind, in the negative, the now infamous curtain-style Tony Manero that Tobey Maguire, overwhelmed by the alien symbiote, must have been compelled by force to act (one of the most embarrassing things ever seen out of context and cinema) and in a positive sense, the cameo by Bruce Campbell a very good role of a French waiter bungler.
usually with a trilogy should end a saga, but perhaps this third installment of the Amazing Spider-Man, is a link between what was and what awaits us in the future. A sort of long trailer that makes us hope incurable fans can still see our beloved area spider hovering between the skyscrapers of New York.

David Battaglia

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or loss of childhood

Episode : El laberinto del Fauno
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Year: 2006
Production: Mexico, Spain, USA
Length: 112 minutes
Genre: fantasy / drama
Rating: 8

Set in Spain in 1944 shortly after the end of the English Civil War, the latest film Guillermo del Toro (Blade 2, Hellboy, The Devil's Backbone) tells the story of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) who, moved with his mother Carmen home of her stepfather, Franco's army captain Vidal (Sergi López), suffers for its cold and authoritarian ways. Will thus find refuge in a mysterious labyrinth that has found close to home, where Pan , The magical creature that acts as guardian of the labyrinth, reveals that she is the lost princess of a magical kingdom.
second chapter, after "The Devil's Backbone" of "Trilogy" (although lately they tend to use the term inflazionatistico) great metaphor-Franco Spain, designed by Guillermo Del Toro. The poster
and labels conferred by the same production company (in addition to some criticism) would think of a title proper fantasy and that is why I set about the vision with some reservations. Reserves conditioned by the fact that, especially recently, I have a bit 'of allergy to this kind because, increasingly, we are witnessing the staging of fairy tales especially suited to a public child or adolescent at most, with a disproportionate use of special effects , are ultimately rather sterile in other respects (all compared to the Tolkien saga, directed by Peter Jackson, who will - probably - a unique case of perfect balance).
It was not the case with the relatively recent effort (noticeable, although I personally do not completely successful) of the "Lady in the Water " of Shyamalan and this is even less of Del Toro that, after starting a bit 'hesitant and rhythm too bland, it soon proves a terrible nightmare.
Contrary to what one might imagine, however, the nightmares are not taken from the monsters that inhabit the depths of the earth frequented by little Ophelia, but the men who caused the reality on the level of terror with their Franco dictatorship in Spain. It is here that the film reveals exactly what it is: a drama focusing on civil war and the horrors caused by fascism. The director himself makes no secret of his thoughts: "... fascism is primarily a form of perversion of innocence, and thus of childhood. For me Fascism is in some sense the death of the soul, because it forces you to make painful choices, leaving an indelible mark piercing and profound in those who have lived. "That's the point of view of a young girl becomes the ideal representation of a sort of dichotomy, first direct (with a historical representation), the other in the form of metaphor (with the loss of innocence). Two forms of storytelling that eventually fit together perfectly.
The film is totally divorced from any consideration comforting and adolescent, constantly putting the little star in the middle of tragic situations, the forced to make choices that are not typical of his age, and premature loss of childhood.
The result is a fine example of how to make films of "gender" in a "serious" and dramatic, concedetemelo adult.
The labyrinth is the place (Mythical) where the plot is resolved by calling in an elegant way also Kubrick's Shining, from the point of view of the subject well as figurative, leaving the viewer in suspense and multiplying possible readings.
A ray of light but can not destroy the bursting of the dark tragedy, even with the seductive ambiguity of the final scene.

Review also published on www.scheletri.com (December 2006)

David Battaglia

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An anti-hero in thongs

Original title: Children of Men
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Year: 2006
Production: USA
Length: 98 min.
Genre: drama / sci-fi
Rating: 7.5

How many times watching a movie one is led to reflect on how the imagination of the authors draw inspiration from reality, perhaps emphasis (even if we all learned how often the reality run faster and be more tragic than any apocalyptic fiction) and an extreme consequences of the diverse human actions? Vision "Children of Men" will test exactly this feeling, or to be confronted with something very real and not a representation of science fiction.
Slavoj Zizek, a prominent philosopher and cultural critic, speaking of the work of Alfonso Cuaron , even quotes Hegel and his "aesthetic " which maintains that a good portrait is more like the person that the person himself or In other words, a good portrait is more representative of the person he is portraying. This is
And what could the Mexican director with his film does not point to an alternate reality, but simply makes the reality more than it already is. In this respect was the decisive choice to shoot the film giving it a documentary, making extensive use of floor-length sequence and those attending would be the protagonists of the story as a war reporter. The same spots "blood splashing on the camera (they were originally a mistake, but in the end Cuaron and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki decided - fortunately - to keep them) do nothing but accentuate this sense of hyper-realism. The future
bad, bad and dirty that humanity is being built with his own hands is already before our eyes: environmental and socio-economic migration increasingly out of control, unbridled globalization, racial tensions and civil wars are, in fact, already our present. It makes little difference whether the scenario of all this is not a country of the former Yogoslavia or a state of the Middle East, but a Britain (which is a fundamental choice in more because of its character as a country traditionalist par excellence) remained only defense of a world that has already crossed the threshold of collapse. A bastion but looks like a Nazi regime, which, in the hope of preserving their barriers and ensure minimum services for its citizens, has erased the concept of human dignity of all others. The borders were closed, the refugees are expelled (if not killed) after being deported in the city turned into a concentration camp. There is no longer a moral because there is no future and the great theme of the film - the total fertility of the human race - it's just a metaphor for a possible genocide.
Cuaron (but especially the writer PD James, author of the book from which the film is based) also tells us of the dangers of utopias and of those who blindly believe in them: we must fear most people who love the ideals that its like, because the past has taught us that good can lead to hatred also ideal for anyone who has the power to interfere with the deployment of the dream.
also preserve the art becomes a utopia and the David of Michelangelo saved by the Foundation for the Arts (established in the famous Central Electricity Battersea) appears as a sad and decontextualized piece of marble surrounded to a totally aseptic.
And the big pig with wings that sails between the towers of the central ( explicit homage to Pink Floyd's Animals cover and, in turn reference the allegorical novel "Animal Farm" by Orwell ) returns an even more terrible than this in mind. The music plays, in fact, a very important role: focus primarily on large tracks of the '60s and '70s is both synonymous with nostalgia and a witness to what the world has evolved more by that time until 2027, where c 'tecnolgia is small compared to our present and what little there is, is already dilapidated.
An evocative film, full of meanings and probably unrealistic in the same way that puts the issues under discussion. Many points of reflection is not helped by a screenplay that does not always equal remains the only (but not marginal) new film.
Despite this "Children of Men" should be viewed and reviewed, both for its valuable technical solutions for both hot and most modern topics. You just have to follow the faltering steps dell'antieroe Theo- Clive Owen that snug fit as inappropriate flip-flops, will be overwhelmed by events and will be forced against his will to fight his depression and his nihilism to return to a future ' humanity.