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Tolkien recorre los años formativos del autor huérfano mientras encuentra amistad, amor e inspiración artística entre un grupo de compañeros marginados de la escuela.Tolkien recorre los años formativos del autor huérfano mientras encuentra amistad, amor e inspiración artística entre un grupo de compañeros marginados de la escuela.Tolkien recorre los años formativos del autor huérfano mientras encuentra amistad, amor e inspiración artística entre un grupo de compañeros marginados de la escuela.
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThis is Finnish director Dome Karukoski's first English language movie.
- PifiasOne of Tolkien's friends sports a moustache during the war and is mocked for it. Actually, moustaches were mandatory in the British military at the start of World War I. Tolkien himself wore a moustache during his service.
- Citas
Edith Bratt: Things aren't beautiful because of how they sound. They're beautiful because of what they mean.
- ConexionesFeatured in Good Morning Britain: Episodio fechado 30 abril 2019 (2019)
- Banda sonoraImmortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
Lyric by Walter Chalmers Smith
Music by John Roberts
Reseña destacada
The film is aimless...
The film's main problem is it doesn't want to be about what it is about. The film is largely a series of episodes of how various things (events, people, other works etc.) influenced the Middle Earth texts. But the film resists trying to draw 1 to 1 parallels between Tolkien's life and his fictional world.The film goes out of its way to avoid allegory. This is somewhat admirable given Tolkien's famous distaste for allegory but at the same time there's too much of the Middle Earth texts in the film to avoid making the connections. And the film clearly wants you to make those connections. This split aim makes the film have no real narrative drive. I do like how sometimes the narrative unspecified symbolism allows you to read several aspects of Tolkien's mythology into a scene. There was 2-3 times an ambiguous reference to either Sauron or Morgoth.
While the film is in the batting average for historical accuracy for Hollywood it weirdly ignores obvious things to discuss. The film greatly downplays Tolkien's Catholicism to the point where he doesn't seem any more devout than a random guy from that time period. Worse the film spends a lot of time on his courtship with Edith and the film just doesn't use the bit about Tolkien proposing at 12:01 on his 21st birthday. This makes Tolkien a less complex figure for removing his stubbornness.
However much the film's story is lacking I love the direction-cinematography in this film. There is a ton of very provocative and lyrical images that feel more Middle Earth to me than the weaker parts of the Jackson films. The film is handsome and despite the narrative drive being missing it doesn't get bogged down. It plays out like a standard coming of age tale, abet a more artistic one.
With all that being said Hoult's performance is easily the best part of the film and I wish it was in a much better film. I don't think he will ever top R but this a very touching naturalistic take on an icon.
While the film is in the batting average for historical accuracy for Hollywood it weirdly ignores obvious things to discuss. The film greatly downplays Tolkien's Catholicism to the point where he doesn't seem any more devout than a random guy from that time period. Worse the film spends a lot of time on his courtship with Edith and the film just doesn't use the bit about Tolkien proposing at 12:01 on his 21st birthday. This makes Tolkien a less complex figure for removing his stubbornness.
However much the film's story is lacking I love the direction-cinematography in this film. There is a ton of very provocative and lyrical images that feel more Middle Earth to me than the weaker parts of the Jackson films. The film is handsome and despite the narrative drive being missing it doesn't get bogged down. It plays out like a standard coming of age tale, abet a more artistic one.
With all that being said Hoult's performance is easily the best part of the film and I wish it was in a much better film. I don't think he will ever top R but this a very touching naturalistic take on an icon.
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- CubsandCulture
- 11 may 2019
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- Presupuesto
- 20.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 4.535.154 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 2.200.537 US$
- 12 may 2019
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 9.090.040 US$
- Duración1 hora 52 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1
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