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Chernobyl (2019)
Beautiful piece contaminated by ideology
Let me be clear. Cinematographically speaking this miniseries is perfect. It make us engage to the very end. However scientific facts and evidence are dismissed to create a emotionally charged version.
There is a lot of intentional mistakes and misrepresentations to reforce the preconceived imaginery of socialist countries in the XX century. Of course there was an attemp at a cover up like it has occured in every sudden catastrophe and as we can see right now in the pandemic we are experiencing. All officials are represented as drunk ignorant murderers minus our valiant protagonists.
Evacuation didn't take that long. Fire brigade, doctors, etc were well aware of what radiation was and they were taking iodine tablets from the get go. There is no need to create heroic characters in an already compelling story. No opportunity is missed to critize the URSS like that elder woman scene.
The focus should be on the heroic workers who voluntarily sacrified their lives to save the world. However puppies control got more screen time that the labor of the fire brigade in the inmediate hours of the explosion. I wonder why.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Disappointing
I was looking forward to this film with all my heart but the results were frustrating. The plot is weak, relying on the sock scenes. There are problems with the pace of the film, making some moments feel unearned. And the representation of the Vietnam war is ludicrous, not an ounce of truth to be found. I suppose that it is not the film intention to be a war film but the thing is that it fails miserably at its true objective. There are films like Born on the 4th of July that have made a perfect role in translating the scars and social rupture of the war in the USA landscape.
El pico (1983)
An excellent movie. Vital if you want to know a little about the 80s in Spain
This film is framed within the quinqui genre and I think it is quite the masterpiece. The depiction of the sociocultural climate is sublime. De la Iglesia is able to transmitting the oppressive atmosphere of the moment. The "transición" or the bloodless image of it is far from the crude reality. Struggle for self-determination and yearning for immobilism and despotic control clashed in Euskadi. Tortures, executions, militarism and fear was the standard pattern. Drugs were added to the mix and some people believe that this destruction of a generation, of the youth who was the hope of change was conducted by the state itself (and in the rest of depauperate neighborhoods of Madrid and Barcelona). I think that this film succeed in making the viewer uncomfortable. The smell of death permeates everything starting from the familiar home. The pressure and inexorability along with the crude takes transport us to the 80s in all its glory. I really like the naivety and naturalness of the cast (in fact we can look at their stormy lives). I appreciate the personification of danger and attraction into Lali Espinet. José Manuel Cervino nail the stern dimension of the commander. I recommend the sequel since it added new dimensions to this costumbrist portrait.