"Steve Jobs" is definitely one of the best biographical films of our time. It makes a very particular right, efficient, dynamic, neurotic, great, funny, human and unforgettable "portrait in motion" of one of the most complex characters and iconographic twentieth century celebrities and geniuses: "Steve Jobs", aka the co-creator of the personal computer practically and/or a series of creations or co-creations more in Apple Computer Company that if not exist, the world would not be the same. Danny Boyle's British director in his frantic, unstoppable filmstyle does convey much of what lay behind this great character who taught the world to "think different", using a very intelligent fastpace screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, based on the great biobook of Walter Isaacson, that itself is a great biography "pre-authorized" of Steve Jobs, and I do recommend it. Boyle and his writer staged his film at the times backstage or behind the scenes of the official presentations/summits of three unforgettable and key Apple products. It is in these peak moments where Steve Jobs, masterfully played by Michael Fassbender, comes out with all its complex load of feelings, thoughts, obsessions, fears and tricks. It is in these moments where Steve Jobs has to show the world that he is the "Director of the Big Orchestra" without sometimes having to play any instrument at all. Behind every great man is a great woman and this is certainly Jobs's personal assistant, played with intensity by Kate Winslet and all the memorable interactions with key figures of the protagonist's life as the girlfriend/wife or his daughter, his co-founder Steve Wozniak and his uncomftrable partner John Scully, a very complex character and influence in Steve's life. All is setup in a frenetic and kinetic pace from start to finish in a film that does not let you breathe literally, it has so much to teach to us and without a question puts Steve Jobs as an essential reference for anyone who wants to venture into this modern era and learn about the 20th century cyber modern history and biography of this unforgettable genius, or wants to learn in latter case how it is created, raised, almost destroyed and saves a world-class company. Steve Jobs should be seen and applauded not one but in several revisions. A must see film.
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Perpetual Sadness
(2014)
A great movie of a woman life in a small town in the solitude of the desert.
5 April 2015
THE TIRISIA from Mexican Director Jorge Perez Solano is a splendid film. Impressively sober. Formally impeccable. That makes a very good portrait of the reality of women living in the village of Zapotitlan of Las Salinas, Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Director, who is also from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, introduces us to his central character: Cheba, a woman who has recently given birth to the son of a different man from her husband, who has worked in the US for several years and is about to return to the small village. Soon the husband will be back and she will have to decide what to do with the baby, since they already have two sons and she does not want problems with him.
Cheba must thus confront her own desires, fears and fears and what is expected from her in the isolated village where everyone lives trapped in a microcosm, that is like a large cage in the desert landscape of huge organ needle trees which enclose everything and everyone, forgotten even from God and sick with The Tirisia: The sickness of the soul.
The stories intersect. It's a great crossroad where deception, or tell the truth, and be free is what destroys inside. and so we know life in the village. A visual poetry where melancholy and pain of being abandoned is the engine of the stories.
Great movie. I love it.
The Director, who is also from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, introduces us to his central character: Cheba, a woman who has recently given birth to the son of a different man from her husband, who has worked in the US for several years and is about to return to the small village. Soon the husband will be back and she will have to decide what to do with the baby, since they already have two sons and she does not want problems with him.
Cheba must thus confront her own desires, fears and fears and what is expected from her in the isolated village where everyone lives trapped in a microcosm, that is like a large cage in the desert landscape of huge organ needle trees which enclose everything and everyone, forgotten even from God and sick with The Tirisia: The sickness of the soul.
The stories intersect. It's a great crossroad where deception, or tell the truth, and be free is what destroys inside. and so we know life in the village. A visual poetry where melancholy and pain of being abandoned is the engine of the stories.
Great movie. I love it.
The Lone Ranger
(2013)
The Lone Ranger Empowered and Revisited
7 August 2013
I grew up with the Lone Ranger Series on television and in black and white. It was a pleasure for me to see this new movie version and to remember the character of my childhood.
Depp plays a very intelligent, witty and intuitive "Tonto" (aka "Toro" in Spanish) and won by far the full movie.
The plot combines the classic elements of an Indiana Jones movie with a touch of Shakespeare on a very well written plot that favors humor over drama and fun over and excessive analysis, though will result a bit long for some people. The film serves as an introduction to the characters, their complexes, their traumas and motives.
Maybe not many Americans will like this new candid approach where more whites are more evil and mean than the Comanche Indians themselves. I think the Cavendish character is very very mean but a little naive sometimes.
Important elements of the American West History are present, being probably one of the main characters the railroad by itself. Spectacular scenarios and other situations and very original views and some that we have never seen before that would likely make of the Lone Ranger 2013 a modern classic. Thats my bet.
Depp plays a very intelligent, witty and intuitive "Tonto" (aka "Toro" in Spanish) and won by far the full movie.
The plot combines the classic elements of an Indiana Jones movie with a touch of Shakespeare on a very well written plot that favors humor over drama and fun over and excessive analysis, though will result a bit long for some people. The film serves as an introduction to the characters, their complexes, their traumas and motives.
Maybe not many Americans will like this new candid approach where more whites are more evil and mean than the Comanche Indians themselves. I think the Cavendish character is very very mean but a little naive sometimes.
Important elements of the American West History are present, being probably one of the main characters the railroad by itself. Spectacular scenarios and other situations and very original views and some that we have never seen before that would likely make of the Lone Ranger 2013 a modern classic. Thats my bet.
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