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Memento

no past nor the future makes sense

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Memento Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan
Year: 2000
Production: Use
Length: 113 minutes
Genre: thriller
Rating: 9

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), has a rare disease that prevents him from store new memories for more than a quarter of an hour. This seems to be due to an accident during an assault had in which his wife was raped and killed. In fact Leonard only remembers everything up to that terrible day. In his life destroyed, the only goal left is to trace and punish the murderer. Polaroid Photo , memos, tattoos, are the means by which it attempts to build a grid of memory, resistant to the ambiguity of the survey and the volatility of the disease which he can perhaps arrive at some truth. The help a man who says he is an old friend (Joe Pantoliano) and a girl who claims to have suffered like him (Carrie-Anne Moss).
Christopher Nolan, to access the Pharaonic budget of "Insomnia" and especially "Batman Begins," has convinced Hollywood stars and producers of his talent with this (not too small) piece of jewelry. Scripted by the director's brother, Jonathan, and based on his original story, "Memento" is its greatest strength in its original script and complex, thanks to a building "progressive " full of flashbacks and flash-forward, with alternating black and white and color, an extreme concept that has been Tarantino in "Pulp Fiction" (honestly, already proven in 1956 by Stanley Kubrick in "Robbery in armed "), to art history of disturbing facts in the light of the plot.
Telling the story " the contrary" is not a sensationalist or choice voted for complacency: the only possible way to empathize with the viewer in a profound sense of dislocation and tear of interior which Leonard is a victim of its almost pathetic attempt regularly and systematically to object to a condition that would make life impossible for everyone.
Besides being a great thriller that recalls the best atmospheres of other times noir, this film is primarily a reflection on human frailty, the ancestral questions we ask everyone. These questions can be answered only in the past, without even meaning it loses the present and the future does not exist either.
Maybe that's why often you lie to yourself, building memories and fictional actions that this wadding and give boost to the future. The tragedy of Leonard is the same as those who, without being affected by such a disease, does not accept himself and prefers to deny their feelings, hiding under the veil of shame. In fact, those who are not ever want to remove even one day of their lives to defend himself from past uncomfortable? But on balance
difficult to maintain their identity by denying pieces that, like it or not, are part of us.
is that the investigation of Leonard becomes the only motive that would justify even a life forever compromised. Here's to rebuild the complex puzzle of his life he needs the help of his friend Teddy (Joe Pantoliano better). But he can really trust and all the other people who revolve around them? Like Leonard, we, in our daily lives, we must face questions to which, not always, we can give answers.
Memento is a film that, due to its complex structure , requires extreme caution and probably also needs more views to be included in an appropriate manner. But this is not a defect, but a common feature of many masterpieces.

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

David Battaglia

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Conan Future Boy

Everything has to start again ...

Original title: Mirai Shonen Conan
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Keiji Hayakawa, Isao Takahata
Animation: Hayao Miyazaki, Yasuo Otsuka
Year: 1978
Production: Japan
Length: 26 episodes of 25 min.
Genre: Science Fiction

If the calculations are correct, there are less than one year - then in 2008 - should be the end of the world . At least as we know it today. Everything will be caused by a third world war fought based on magnetic bombs (much more powerful and destructive than nuclear!) That will destroy the earth's surface in a few hours ... even the axis of rotation of our planet and the continents will move fractures sinking in the oceans.
Only a few people manage to escape and remain isolated in the few areas that emerged ... will have to start from scratch, but, as ever, ' obstinacy of the human race will have the upper hand and somehow manage to keep going.

In a nutshell this is the scenario in which it moves Conan (not the barbarian course), a child of eleven born after the catastrophe on an island (called the 'Island of Dr. Moreau ) where a group of astronauts rushed in an attempt to escape out of the range taerrestre. We are in 2028
Conan and lives with his grandfather, the only survivors of the astronauts, leading a simple life and intimately connected to nature, believing that no other human being on Earth.
The discovery of the small island on the beach, a girl unconscious, upset the life of Conan ...
Lana, this is the name of the girl, reveals that many other people have survived the disaster, and in his island Hyarbor people live in peace and harmony, even if it is threatened by the aggressive company Indastria , praticamante the only city-state based on the technology still remained on Earth.
Conan will know soon the evil intentions of this mysterious Indastria since an aircraft will come from there own party lost on the island, kills his grandfather and Lana snatch, kicking off an adventure in 26 episodes long (almost 11 hours) .

When Conan first appeared on Italian television screens - even though I was still a rookie (like all those of my generation) - we realized to be before something slightly different from the usual robottoni to Go Nagai (please, do not spit into the pot in which I have never eaten so many years, but Ufo Robot, Mazinga & Co. does not have the thickness of a fingernail that can claim the cartoon Miyazaki).
The high artistic and technical quality of this animated series surprising when you consider that in those years television (especially the entertainment for children) was in its infancy and it is no coincidence that, although both Conan been (thankfully) a mini-series prequel or not followed, in contrast to the popular anime , has a large number of admirers, not only among the nostalgic thirty-thirty-five who looked to be infants, but also among today's teens, savvy and accustomed to other wonders of technology, than their peers at the end of the seventies.
The environments away from traditional norms (many references to landscape and architecture of the forties, that is clearly related to World War II and the atomic disatro which the victim was Japan) and environmental issues (easy dist Language The dichotomy of good and evil, represented by the first farmers and nature, while the second, by industry and motor vehicles), making it one of the most interesting animation products the entire Japanese production and at the time revealed the skill and sensitivity of an author such as Hayao Miyazaki, is intended eventually to be recognized as the greatest Japanese filmmaker - I love this term that today is used almost - " cartoons animated. "
Personally, to review a few episodes after more than twenty years, I noticed how much nostalgia for the past is the main theme of the whole story, even in its simplicity, can take the viewer to reflect.
not through the usual gooders that toghether many productions today, but something deeper and more rare.
a jewel to be discovered.
David Battle

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Mulholland Drive

A nightmare with eyes half-closed

Original title: Mulholland Drive
Director: David Lynch
Year: 2001
Length: 145 minutes Production
: USA
Genre: Drama / surreal
rating : 9

is that, as I anticipated the day that I opened this blog, Interstellar Overdrive and makes his first trip outside the orbit of science fiction.
To do so I chose something very challenging and, in fact, not so far away from the issues that govern the works fantastic. I'm going to talk about Lynch, and in this case, every label on every schematic, any attempt at classification - pass me the euphemism, unless it is banned - goes to fuck off.
hard, really hard to write something about this work of David Lynch , without the risk of falling into banality (filling out the review of adjectives which seem abused) or lost in the intricate aspects of narrative (perhaps trying to give one, or even worse, different interpretations of what we have seen).
In this tortuous route is even difficult to understand where he is the beginning and at the end. You can walk, as one of the many characters at random, around the ring that holds the story (more or less circular ), ad infinitum.
Lynch's films is made very clear and sometimes unsettling episodes like "The Elephant Man," "Wild at Heart" and "Straight Story" (his most intimate films) and films that would have the joy of Sigmund Freud as "Blue Velvet," "Lost Highway" and, precisely, "Mulholland Drive".
you ever fall asleep and dream about someone you have met (even if only in passing) during the day? Or dream of people you know well, but have something different in the dream from reality? Remember to dream that you thought that you remove and then re-emerge as intact or distorted? Old loves to dream shattered as they were still tangible? This is "Mulholland Drive" a film about schizophrenia (Diane looks a lot like Fred Madison " Lost Highway"), and the dream is about a schizophrenic mechanism, a deceitful game of Chinese boxes.
I think it's really useless to seek the interpretation intended as an explanation, really too many words have been written about it, the same Lynch said that the film was born from a dream, and dreams, we know, are anchored in our unconscious, other in each of us and, in my humble opinion, difficult to psychoanalyze following exact formulas and diagrams.
Some say that the first part of the film represents the dream-like quality, while the second embodies the harsh realities. Some say it is only the sad story of unrequited love. Others argue that perhaps Diane has never even got up from that couch and he wanted to see everything, but would like to argue that Noodles in Once Upon a Time in America "he had never left the opium den. And who are we to say such statements?
I tell you, if so, would seek to reduce to rational schemes film a very "surreal" and I do not think this is possible (at least I do not have the capacity).
The only thing I can say without any doubt whatsoever is that "Mulholland Drive" provokes in me, every time I see him again, a high aesthetic pleasure. That is the purpose of art, regardless of any meaning it may contain more or less implicit.

David Battaglia