Estados Unidos es un país en lamy. A nation where the extreme right has led to the establishment of a government climate of terror among immigrantslegal and not, like ICE sending you to two white citizens.
A country that takes place in “another battle”, between a country that initiates a profound social change and the right that wants to preserve a “white” United States, in which official brutality turns into a weapon of social control. He shows it with strength and cruelty Another battleganadora de sixes Oscar, three pairs Paul Thomas Anderson (best edited guide, direction and film).
Inspirándose en la obra de Thomas Pynchondirector (Los Ángeles, 1970) recreates this battle marked by a extreme polarization. For one thing, it’s Lockjaw Colonel (Sean Pennwinner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Department He Didn’t Acknowledge), a twisted, brilliant, magnetic, fascist type… who makes Penn an unforgettable figure that is part of the history of cinema.
On the other hand, “jipioso” Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), a single father of a little girl and a fugitive from justice for the subversive actions of a radical group of people who belonged to him years ago. The film opens with an impressive attack on a government detention center for migrants who are freed.
The United States, depicted through the intimate experience of unique and specific characters, is a large figure in Thomas Anderson’s work. En Boogie Nights (1997) portrayed an “American American” from a place as dirty as the world of porn in the 1970s and 1980s. In this case, the story of the rise and fall of protagonist Mark Wahlberg as a “hot” actor. Historical reconstruction not only “shows” time, but also represents it, immerses itself in it.
Magnolia (1999) we show the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, eloquent, despiadado, excesivo and brilliant in a coral story with new protagonists, Tom Cruise as a sinister motivational speaker, Julianne Moore plays a woman who feels guilty before her husband’s death for only asking him for money. The well-known flood of frogs is a symbol of catharsis.
The San Fernando Valley, the director’s birthplace, was the backdrop for many of his films. in summary Embraced by love (2002), Pure vice (2014) and penultimate, Licorice pizza (2021).
En Pozos de ambition (2007) raises the artistic peak with spectacular art Daniel Day Lewis he plays one of the “pioneers” who built the American empire, a guy obsessed with meeting oil and getting rich in the land of millionaires. The first part takes us on a journey through which the viewer “feels” that this is so through sound and image.
Symbolic director
Another battle e.g the total refinement of Thomas Andersona number of unseen images such as this Perfidia (Teyana Taylor), the ex-wife of DiCaprio’s character, in the streets as politicians enthusiastically celebrate the capture. A perverted colonel from Penn with an erection when he meets an activist and poses because he knows “cazador” even though he is among the ideological antipodes.
Thomas Anderson has always been a director of symbolism, in cinema he does not reflect reality as it is, until, using all the cinematographic tools and especially the stage scene, he finds a way to depict it that reflects its deep meaning.
So it can be decided that in each film we not only tell a story or contain a more or less original way of telling, but Thomas Anderson works literally like classic artists with a very precisely processed film that gives the feeling that there is not a single element in the picture that has not been thought of.
This ability to reflect true reality, but also represents an emotional depth that is exemplified in another of your joys, Embraced by lovein which the sophisticated treatment of the color palette that surrounds him with impressionism serves to reflect the timid opening to the world of his tormented hero (Adam Sandler).
This romantic episode of Thomas Anderson also marks his latest film Delicacy Licorice pizza (2021), in which this lover of the use of symbols stands behind the result of water cameras in the United States (which enrich his protagonist) to tell a wonderful love story between a young businessman and a young pizpiretta, who rise and break over the years. That’s where the hottest filmmaker gets up to shine, but he’s proud of it Another battle which raised him to fame.
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