I know from his subsequent interpretations of Thor – four in solitude and many more The Avengers—, Hemsworth She is the most “white” star of Hollywood: the body blockbustergood to eat, with natural charm and very effective in my body. But he also wants to be a “serious actor”.
Yes Dwayne Johnson sigh for Oscar s Smash MachineGiving life to a hard-hitting, honest-hearted luchador, Hemsworth seeks his interpretive redemption Escape routeadaptation of the novel by Don Winslow, the author, which was successfully brought to cinemas by Jane Campion in The power of the pear (2021).
The actor is accompanied by many stars: Halle Berry as a security agent involved in the system, Mark Ruffalo like a golden and cruel policy.. but Escape route eg ante todo, a poem to Hemsworth.
We know the character well because we have always been fascinated by North American literature and cinema. E.g. electricity solitary lobe: a man who is not at home with Nadie and lives in the day the world was about to turn upside down in an hour. French cinema – which has always been well copied in Hollywood – did it with Alain Delon The silence of a man (1967), Jean-Pierre Melville.
His own Escape route returns homenaje explícito and los thrillers the social and political calamities of the 1960s and 1970sa period of renewal in Hollywood whose “great” era was over and which met with more personal voices and compromised the rise of its crisis. Ahí están the names of Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman or Michael Cimino.
Guiño in the past, which comes together at a time when Hollywood is once again attracting a crisis blockbuster. The British are behind the camera Bart LaytonI know from the document Cheat (2012) and cf American animals (2018), also focused in the robot. Layton understands classics and homages with intensity, though he doesn’t always shine at the same height.
En Escape route are given in direct form thrillers starring Steve McQueen, as Bullitt (1968), where the bolidos and miseries of the elite play the central sheet, or The Thomas Crown Case (1968), in which McQueen played a millionaire who thrives on pure adrenaline. The idea is clear: repeat the formula that made McQueen a global starbut still
Action movies with lots of nice visuals and in this case endless chases in the song “101” of the original title (Crime 101): highway that goes around Los Angeles and where the main character drives at full speed between comets and robots.
A good thief
If he calls Jim Davis and he’s “the good thief”. The film does not justify his actions, but gives context: he was born bad – something bad in everyone, but shameful in the United States -. Set in sophisticated Los Angeles, Escape route it aspires to criticize a hyper-capitalist society in which payment is made only in money.
Real funsometimes it seems a little self-evident in your quest for – oh paradox – “moral wholeness”. The idea is well known: the elites are corrupt, all the “things” of the world can be done – exploit the workers or profit from an implacable system – and the question is in the air: where is the good and here is the bad?
The treachery of these elites is embodied here in an old millionaire and tax cheat who, as it is not, goes to live with a 25-year-old girl. Escape route Please, thank you for your magnificent picturesheartfelt drama and very beautiful views of Los Angeles.
Hemsworth, bland algoat times it lacks the necessary zest for flourish and “heart” that the film evokes. Berry is amazing. The real problem is that there is less ambiguity about the villains of classic cinema Tener y ne tener or Eternal dream: I’m saying the same thing, but without explicitly directing it at the viewer like that, there is a foregone conclusion.
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