menacing shadow is haunting the Ramblas in Barcelona. It is to Uxbal, star of Biutiful . In the film of Alejandro González Iñárritu , the first without Guillermo Arriaga to dictate the timing of the script, the character played by Javier Bardem fills its cumbersome presence almost every single shot. Father of two children in their care instead of his wife, a kind of mutant pole, traffic in people and mice in the tumultuous chaos Catalan. Despite having the power to communicate with the dead and open the doors of ' Hereafter, learns she has cancer and begins to fear for the future of his children.
does not appear, yet Biutiful is a zombie movie. For various reasons. First, because Uxbal is already dead. It speaks with the dead. Cadaveric returns. Wanders staggering down the street and doubtful, eats meals with the innate need and brusque animal, educates the rigor and savings. Does not accept interference in private. He's dead. It turns out that for slaughter do not need a shot in the head. Just a piss blood red. Horror (s) that overwhelms because Iñárritu spy through the keyhole, globalism, looking at all ways to nurture a shared sense of guilt. What, you do not understand well. Triumph for a certain complacency. Pile up issues on topics, so to say the least confusing: the economy is expanding without rights and protection, exploitation, vendors and Chinese workers in Africa, homosexuality with almond eyes, schizophrenia and violence home, corrupt police, incest family, and so on and so forth. All this without hardly ever getting your hands dirty, far from ordinary people who would like to slam on the screen. So much the better good and rich bourgeoisie, the American who was on holiday in Morocco or the Japanese who trafficked in arms. Semba confused to see a metropolitan framework, Amir Naderi as if Kafka had chosen instead of Roberto Saviano as a cultural reference.
So what is left? Simple answer: a director who helped with editing, sound and music, while abusing the hand-held camera, he allows himself to space, some dazzling long shots, with sudden openings visionary (the dialogue with children who have died, the Chinese suffocated and larvae that move on the ceiling), the face and stare transfixed by Javier Bardem, the marvelous pairing of the nose and breasts Maricel Álvarez; evocative glimpses of a nature that appears and disappears in the presence of Barcelona a dirty, charming and night. Not much, unfortunately. Social issues could be more private and redemption Biutiful .
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