Cinque pezzi facili

CULTURA CINQUE PEZZI FACILI

La rubrica di cinema più famosa e letta al Sarpi (?) riparte in grinta! Tema enigma per questo numero, perciò vi proponiamo cinque film belli tosti, buttandoci dentro anche qualche bel classicone, ma perché no? Aspettatevi un bel mal di testa e quella familiare sensazione di non averci capito niente, un po’ come dopo una versione in classe. E non solo per i film, che sono già di per sé belli pesantucci, ma soprattutto perché i commenti ai film sono in inglese (abbiamo voluto osare sta volta). Quindi, se non avete sette verifiche domani e stasera pensavate a una bella serata film, invece di scorrere la vostra lista netflix per mezz’ora, leggete cinque pezzi facili, che è anche tipo multidisciplinare sta volta.

Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) Seven is a psychological crime thriller movie starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The young detective David Mills partners with soon-to-retire detective Lieutenant William Somerset to unmask a serial killer who chooses his victims following the seven deadly sins. Extremely fascinating and creepy together, Seven has the power to keep you stuck to the screen. The movie is set in an unnamed metropolis that looks like a lost, almost dystopian, Los Angeles. This movie isn’t scared to show the horror of human nature through explicit scenes of cruel, row violence. Something deeply investigated is the relation between murder and artwork you can well understand only seeing the movie. Fearfully charming.

Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) As you’ll imagine, I love Fincher, just a bit… anyways, this movie is based on a real story of United States’ murderer terrorising San Francisco in the late 1960’s and early 70’s and it’s the most disgraceful unsolved case in the US. Making the film took Fincher and screenwriter Vanderbilt 18 months of investigation on Zodiac murders. The killer communicated with the police and newspapers with encrypted messages, clothing and letters that caught the attention of a cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhall) whose contribution to the case was fundamental.

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) This film is everything: spectacular, anxious, scary and mad all together. You can feel the atmosphere is heavy from the first scene but you clearly understand it when you hear the first notes of the soundtrack. You’ll have to see this movie something like five times: two to understand it and three to accept it. And then you won’t sleep for a month. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as two US marshals, it’s about a case of a disappearance in a psychiatric hospital. But what DiCaprio will discover during the investigations will be incredibly shocking.

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) After the lending of a group of alien spaceships, the US army asks a linguist to try to study and understand the language of these new creatures. The movie is really particular and overcomes the simple and abused “alien arrival”: it tries to investigate what underlies language mechanisms through messages between two comunicative systems that seem to have nothing in common. The process of decryption of the language leads humans to deal with a circular time conception, something certainly mysterious for human beings but necessary to understand how these strangers really communicate.

And then there were none (miniserie, 2015) Based on the homonym novel of the queen of crime, Agatha Christie, the movie reflects the agony and the hopelessness of the protagonists without remarkable variation of the book. Ten people without any apparent connection are invited to a mansion on a little English island for different reasons. Immediately after their arrival someone begins to kill all of them, one after the other, following a poem on the walls of the mansion. In desperation and in constant struggle with themselves and with others, the “ten little Indians” are looking for a way to salvation, without being able to trust anyone and understand what is really happening on that cursed island, where it seems there is no one except them.