Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The Deer Hunter is one of the greatest films about the Vietnam War. A film that perfectly shows how the lives of those men who have stared death in the face change. The first part of the film tells the quiet life that a group of friends lead in the small town of Clairton, while the second part deals with the physical and psychological effects that war caused on them. A masterpiece.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Right from the start it appears quite clear what the protagonists' need is: to rebel against their true and only problem, what they call a curse but which is actually Fritz Von Erich, their father. Only they don't succeed and so we witness the slow fall of most of them. Boring.
You don't need to see hell to know it's there. The spectator knows this from the beginning of the film, when the screen remains black for a long time accompanied by a sound. In the film it’s the sound that tells most about that hell that lies beyond the wall. But so are the images, since they show us the absolute normality and tranquility in which the family of commander Rudolf Höß lives, while people die next to them. The images best show the banality of evil.
Atlantide is the tragic story of Davide, a boy who lives as an outcast in the outskirts of Venice, dedicating himself to his only passion: the “barchino”. What sticks to my mind most about the film are the colors that go from the wonderful pastel during the daytime scenes to the psychedelic and anti-naturalistic lights of the night scenes. From soft colors, which make every shot look like a painting, to strong lights, which illuminate bodies and places, making them almost surreal.