Comment: Gus van Sant’s “The Wire of the Dead” at the Venice Film Festival

The topic about movies is good enough, especially those that put real events back into movie junk food. But when a work like this comes from Gus van Sant, it’s hard not to be disappointed, which makes Dead wires Despite its vitality, a frustrating experience. The film recreates long visual details in 1977 when the story of a wealthy man’s hostage hijacking story, but rarely explores its brightly colored character surfaces and downgrades any tension or conspiracy to its climax scene.
Van Sant has produced several biopics (or pseudobiology) involving gun violence in the United States elephant (2003) Gay rights drama to the Oscar-winning Oscar milk (2008). After decades of history, given the political stagnation, any artist may lose his obsession with the subject. Nevertheless, however, the director urged a film in which the threat of pulling the trigger is rarely hostile and sometimes even struggling, as troubled Indianapolis resident Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) (Bill Skarsgård) was to himself, his shot feet, his shot feet and his wealthy victim Richard Moor Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort Mort –saw If the police intervene, the trap will be separated. But while the play is rarely zealous or threatening, it is emphasized by disappointment and disillusionment, the drama brings weary Kiritsis to the hall at the muzzle.
Dead wires ★★1/2 (2.5/4 stars) |
Regardless of how Van Sant feels about such subjects, he now seems to translate them through exhausted shots. “Here,” the movie waved tiredly. “The other one. Pew Bench.” On the one hand, watching a movie is fascinating, his director seems to be tired of his role and drives gun violence while simultaneously creating himself a martyr. However, Van Sant’s Taxi driver– Story of style (by Fargo;His delusional anti-hero lives surprisingly politely in a reality-based legend of events without reflecting the reality of its attraction.
Kiritsis, like van Sant, is methodical, and the character reacts to each of his plans with a clumsy backup strategy (and backups of each backup). This led to his kidnapping of the hall from the fantasy office of his family mortgage company, rather than his older father (an underutilized Al Pacino), who happens to be on vacation and takes the hall to the cramped apartment, where as many policemen, he happens to be a friend, revealing his eyes as he pursues. Kiriss’ motives are gradually revealed, and his request involves apology and restoration. He made public statements on television and determined his level of heroism to himself, so it was no surprise that he foolishly believed that the world was standing by him, that he believed that once everything was arrested and completed, he was not at risk of being arrested.
It’s very interesting on paper. Strange cases make you wonder if such a crime has actually happened, and the performance does a great job of selling the weirdness of it all. Although Skarsgård digs out Kiritsis’s wounded animal nature and occasional s-drinks, it’s a treat at the moment he dials and acts completely casually, as if trying to convince Hall, despite his 12-slogan Winchester’s neck, he’s approachable. Meanwhile, Montgomery avoids the usual charm he plays, making himself tender and small, embodying a frustrating despair that sometimes makes Kiritsis’s dissatisfied look worthy of consideration.
But Van Sant never recommends Dead wires In either direction, instead let it be heavy on the leisurely middle ground. The unfolding action is never satirical enough to make the film satirical or downright fun, but never filled with enough historical gravity to really matter. Snapshots recreate known photos and news footage, as well as the presence of local popular live journalists and broadcast hosts (played by Myha’la and Colman Domingo, respectively) to try to clarify the reality of the film, but these characters will eventually stand out in their opaque dramatic structure rather than being different than being different, breathing the breath of people crossing with the potentially violent scene. The bigger picture, moving work, and various plans and strategies of the Saving Hall never fade into the view.
When the deadlock is over, how it will sum up the question of who can survive and which some organized role is forced to pull the trigger grant Dead wires Temporary strength. The final cheer isn’t “too late, too late”, but its rapid approaching makes the film feel aimless as it’s only 105 minutes in its grand scheme. It’s a purposeless story, except letting the audience know, with a confusing rhythm, this is the weird thing that has happened in Indianapolis, and it can be more destructive and perhaps more appealing.
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