vineri, 19 iunie 2009

Magnolia


Am vazut ieri Magnolia si sincer nu prea m-a impresionat. Prologul filmului este absolut genial, are o legatura prea mica cu filmul din puctul meu de vedere. Nu o sa va povestesc despre el ci va poftesc sa va uitati. Filmul are vreo 3 ore si am pus de vreo 2 ori pauza pentru ca efectiv nu mai puteam sa ma uit. Are un ritm alert si o muzica de background care te tine mereu in priza. Mereu te astepti sa se intample ceva, dar nu se intampla. Se prezinta vietile mizerabile ale personajelor (care sunt foarte multe si nu exista personaj principal) si modul in care vietile lor se schimba pe parcursul unei zile.
Toate aceste personaje au o legatura, nu foarte aparenta la inceput, intre ele, dar si asemanari de caractere. Momentan, chiar nu am chef sa vorbesc despre fiecare personaj in parte, dar daca printr-un miracol v-am facut curiosi va poftesc sa va uitati la film. Bine ca persoanei care mi l-a recomandat i-a placut foarte mult, dar mie mi se pare prea lung si daca ar fi sa realizez un asemenea film as putea face ceva mai bun.

Pentru rolul din film Tom Cruise a fost nominalizat la Oscar. Intr-adevar joaca foarte bine, pe masura rolului. De altfel filmul propune si ideea de "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us" cu care eu personal nu prea sunt de acord.
Asa de final o sa va las prologul, ma rog, scris, dar va spun ca e absolut genial si ca din cauza lui am stat sa ma uit pana la finalul filmului. E foarte lung,si eu v-as recomanda totusi sa-l vedeti. Poate voua o sa va placa mai mult decat mie. Asadar, prologul:

Narrator: In the New York Herald, November 26, year 1911, there is an account of the hanging of three men. They died for the murder of Sir Edmund William Godfrey; Husband, Father, Pharmacist and all around gentle-man resident of: Greenberry Hill, London. He was murdered by three vagrants whose motive was simple robbery. They were identified as: Joseph Green, Stanley Berry, and Daniel Hill. Green, Berry, Hill. And I Would Like To Think This was Only A Matter Of Chance. As reported in the Reno Gazette, June of 1983 there is the story of a fire, the water that it took to contain the fire, and a scuba diver named Delmer Darion. Employee of the Peppermill Hotel and Casino, Reno, Nevada. Engaged as a blackjack dealer. Well liked and well regarded as a physical, recreational and sporting sort, Delmer's true passion was for the lake. As reported by the coroner, Delmer died of a heart attack somewhere between the lake and the tree. A most curious side note is the suicide the next day of Craig Hansen. Volunteer firefighter, estranged father of four and a poor tendency to drink. Mr. Hansen was the pilot of the plane that quite accidentally lifted Delmer Darion out of the water. Added to this, Mr. Hansen's tortured life met before with Delmer Darion just two nights previous. The weight of the guilt and the measure of coincidence so large, Craig Hansen took his life. And I Am Trying To Think This Was All Only A Matter Of Chance. The tale told at a 1961 awards dinner for the American Association Of Forensic Science by Dr. Donald Harper, president of the association, began with a simple suicide attempt. Seventeen-year-old Sydney Barringer. In the city of Los Angeles on March 23, 1958. The coroner ruled that the unsuccessful suicide had suddenly become a successful homicide. To explain: The suicide was confirmed by a note, left in the breast pocket of Sydney Barringer. At the same time young Sydney stood on the ledge of this nine-story building, an argument swelled three stories below. The neighbors heard, as they usually did, the arguing of the tenants and it was not uncommon for them to threaten each other with a shotgun, or one of the many handguns kept in the house. And when the shotgun accidentaly went off, Sydney just happend to pass. Added to this, the two tenants turned out to be: Faye and Arthur Barringer. Sydney's mother and Sydney's father. When confronted with the charge, which took some figuring out for the officers on the scene of the crime, Faye Barringer swore that she did not know that the gun was loaded. A young boy who lived in the building, sometimes a visitor and friend to Sydney Barringer, said that he had seen, six days prior, the loading of the shotgun. It seems that the arguing and the fighting and all of the violence was far too much for Sydney Barringer, and knowing his mother and father's tendency to fight, he decided to do something. Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth floor rooftop. His parents argue three stories below. Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach as he passes the arguing sixth-floor window. He is killed instantly but continues to fall, only to find, three stories below, a safety net installed three days prior for a set of window washers that would have broken his fall and saved his life if not for the hole in his stomach. So Faye Barringer was charged with the murder of her son, and Sydney Barringer noted as an accomplice in his own death. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just "Something That Happened." This cannot be "One of Those Things... ” This, please, cannot be that. And for what I would like to say, I can't. This Was Not Just A Matter Of Chance. Ohhhh. These strange things happen all the time.

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