Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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The hole (Joe Dante, USA, 2010)

Mi è capitato di trovare questo film per caso. In realtà cercavo un omonimo con Thora Birch, quello dei quattro ragazzi che restano chiusi in un bunker, tuttavia, la mia è stata una piacevole sorpresa, anche perché ho visto “The hole” senza alcun pregiudizio particolare, badando un po' alle citazioni, e scoprendo con meraviglia (non poi tanta però) chi fosse il regista.
La storia è molto semplice: two boys, Dane and Lucas moved to Brooklyn with his mother in a small town. Of course, the comparison with the Big Apple can not stand, and yet here are the nearby Julie, a very pretty girl and contemporary of Dane, with whom the two brothers discovered a trap door in the basement of the house. The trap door is closed with the heavy bolts, of which the kids can not find the keys, but once opened, there seems to be nothing inside. But the strange visions begin, a bloody child, a cop with his head crushed, an evil clown, the shadow of an enormous man. There are fears that the three boys must fight to not be killed. The intervention of the former owner of the house, Carl Crepacuore not riesce a convincerli del pericolo, ma i ragazzi sono caparbi e Julie riesce ad affrontare il fantasma dell'amichetta, morta quando erano piccole, e Lucas la paura dei pupazzi. Solo Dane dice di non avere paura, ma l'ombra dell'uomo non è altri che l'ombra del padre, che da piccolo lo picchiava a sangue e ora si trova in una prigione di stato. Dane trova la consapevolezza di essere una persona differente dal brutale padre e di essere cresciuto, e trova dentro di sé la capacità di affrontare quella paura.
Guardando “The hole” si ha come l'impressione di un “già visto”. Ci sono delle scene che ricordano qualche capitolo della saga di “Nightmare”, qualche scenario alla “Poltergeist”, a little 'It, "but also" The Twilight Zone ", in particular the episode of Dante himself, the one that keeps the boy with the power of thought.
Not bad.
rating: 6 and a half.

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Love and Death (Woody Allen, USA, 1975)

Are there any Allen film that possess the two most noticeable features of his films: the good feelings and irony. Comedies are the ones that come directly from the first and irreverent Allen of "The Dictator of the Free State of Bananas" and go to "I e Annie”, “Crimini e misfatti” e “Hannah e la sue sorelle”. In due di questi ultimi, Allen è apparentemente personaggio marginale, per poi diventare parabola e narrazione di ciò che accade. In “Amore e guerra”, parodia perfettamente riuscita di “Guerra e pace”, invece, come in un altro film molto simile, “Il dormiglione”, Allen ha un ruolo d'assoluto protagonista. Peccato, come al solito, per le traduzioni dei titoli, dato che l'originale è “Love and death”, titolo che riassume al meglio l'essenza di questo film.
Boris, Woody Allen, che tiene per sé lo stesso nome del protagonista di “Basta che funzioni”, loser is the son of the Ancient Regime in Russia and highbrow. Falls in love with his cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton), but, in turn, is in love with his brother Ivan, a sort of breeding bull, who prefers another woman and marries her. Meanwhile, Napoleon invades Austria and Russian sides in the war: Boris tries in every way to escape the battle, as weak and little inclined to this sort of thing, but thanks to a fortuitous event can kill several officers and is even decorated. Once back in St. Petersburg, he met a woman of easy virtue, who falls in love with him, giving him his body, but is challenged by her jealous lover, and that hurts converts to pacifism. Sonja, convinced that Boris would have died in the duel, he promises to marry him, and after a certain period of roses and flowers, the two begin to get along, until Napoleon invaded Russia. So, the idea of \u200b\u200bSonja Mature preparing an attack to the dictator, the two pretend to be noble Spaniards, but he can not kill Napoleon, whose doppelganger is shot by an assassin, but hidden in the room, and Boris blamed. Boris is shot and takes a trip to the death, which has met several times on his way, and returned to find Sonja, in order to finish the film with one of his finest monologues.
Nihilist, sardonic and irreverent, Allen always manages to play with that main theme, which is death, without losing sight of the essence of life, which proves to be the love in all its forms, but especially physical ones.
rating: 9 and a half.