I really really loved this film, in fact I already knew since the trailers that this would be the best film of 2020 and it didn´t dissapointed me not one single bit, however:
I´m a guy who believes in coincidences and in this case this is an odd and unbelieveable tree of references and coincidences that really messed up my mind even now that I stopped watching this film.
In a Biopic (Mank is not a fully-formed Biopic, Mank is a very subjetive and non-linear film) I don´t really care about historic innadequacies (Unless they are too rude like Anastasia or Bohemian Rhapsody) I do care only that the whole story get´s me hooked and excited and Mank isn´t the exception.
But there was a great curiosity to watch the historic fight of Mank Vs Welles about the custody, sorry the credits of Citizen Kane, I personally think that both deserves the credits for making that awesome film, but in this film´s vision, Mank is the main responsible of the success of Citizen Kane´s screenplay, that didn´t affected me as many people did, but it made me reflect in a very serious way about this film in general.
I like David Fincher films, but I´m not a fully-time-fan because I just don´t enjoy too much his cinematographic philosopy, It´s too clean and digital that annoys me a little being a "Film´s better than Digital" type of guy, but when David Fincher had the opportunity of making a vintage film about 30s-40s film industry, it was a sacrilage to me to watch such cleanest images with bad CGI, high ISO levels, it distracted me, even if he did edit the audio and film grain to make it more antique, David Fincher´s place is digital, and it´s a shame that erased a star out of this film, this truly bothered me.
But why this film is my favorite one released in 2020?, like Mank did wrote Citizen Kane the best film of all time, it´s all because of Jack Fincher
I was about to call this, "David Fincher´s Magnum Opus" but the reality is that the wonderful suspense of the movie, the fast paced timing, the funny as hell Mank responses, the smartness, and all of that is part of the original screenplay of Jack Fincher, he is the Mank of our times, a talented screenwriter like Charlie Kauffmann, but with only one big hit in his hand, and gone too soon
David Fincher does not pays tribute to Citizen Kane, to old Movies or Hollywood, he pays tribute to people like Mank, to people like his father and to the screenwriters in the world in such a forgotted and underrated job, but with a highly important value, because a movie is a whole, there are the beautiful images, the powerful acting, the enchantment of the soundtrack, and the feelings that a movie produces to the public.
But above all, cinema is storytelling, we go to the cinema to watch stories that make us believe we are in other worlds, and the screenwriter is the mother of those stories and the director, the narrator of those.
So above all the great stuff about the movie that I won´t mention, this truly showed me between the lines the huge love of David Fincher with his dad, and Mank is truly Jack Fincher´s masterpiece and I hope that as Citizen Kane, Mank stays with us for a very long time into our minds
I like David Fincher films, but I´m not a fully-time-fan because I just don´t enjoy too much his cinematographic philosopy, It´s too clean and digital that annoys me a little being a "Film´s better than Digital" type of guy, but when David Fincher had the opportunity of making a vintage film about 30s-40s film industry, it was a sacrilage to me to watch such cleanest images with bad CGI, high ISO levels, it distracted me, even if he did edit the audio and film grain to make it more antique, David Fincher´s place is digital, and it´s a shame that erased a star out of this film, this truly bothered me.
But why this film is my favorite one released in 2020?, like Mank did wrote Citizen Kane the best film of all time, it´s all because of Jack Fincher
I was about to call this, "David Fincher´s Magnum Opus" but the reality is that the wonderful suspense of the movie, the fast paced timing, the funny as hell Mank responses, the smartness, and all of that is part of the original screenplay of Jack Fincher, he is the Mank of our times, a talented screenwriter like Charlie Kauffmann, but with only one big hit in his hand, and gone too soon
David Fincher does not pays tribute to Citizen Kane, to old Movies or Hollywood, he pays tribute to people like Mank, to people like his father and to the screenwriters in the world in such a forgotted and underrated job, but with a highly important value, because a movie is a whole, there are the beautiful images, the powerful acting, the enchantment of the soundtrack, and the feelings that a movie produces to the public.
But above all, cinema is storytelling, we go to the cinema to watch stories that make us believe we are in other worlds, and the screenwriter is the mother of those stories and the director, the narrator of those.
So above all the great stuff about the movie that I won´t mention, this truly showed me between the lines the huge love of David Fincher with his dad, and Mank is truly Jack Fincher´s masterpiece and I hope that as Citizen Kane, Mank stays with us for a very long time into our minds