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Film Review: Public Enemies
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 01/07/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Would not recommend "Public Enemies" to anyone, even a good movie, the first of the year with a taste of Oscar. Has more than enough ingredients to seduce Review: a recognized and respected director (Michael Mann), a star cast (Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard), refined soundtrack and a script with memorable moments. However, the film about the gangster John Dillinger story requires a patient viewer who enjoys the drama of the sequences, long shots and timely silence. "Public Enemies" is a gangster film but neither has the atmosphere of "The Godfather" or the beat of "The Untouchables". It's a film of a bank robber in which the least are the robberies, which are limited to a few minutes of action without prior introduction, without preparations. It's a film about the beginnings of the FBI, although the organization is so infant can not require such research to the Hollywood film we have used.
"Public Enemies" is a deterministic story, sticking to the reality of events that occurred between 1933 and 1934 in the U.S. that the audience about the character of a Dillinger defiant and confident, not afraid to die, but he respected the life. A gangster who took advantage of weaknesses in the system, new weapons of the time and cheaper new cars to rob the banks that caused the financial crisis of 1929 and plunged the U.S. into the Great Depression, one that reminds both the economic situation we live in today.
Mann's fans do not expect a matchup of players as in "Heat," and the thriller "Collateral" and "The Insider". Going the Distance, the film has a sediment more like "Ali" than "Miami Vice". It is a film about Depp and his ability to control and constrain interpretive instincts in a moderately deranged Dillinger, possibly one of the most "normal" in the actor's career, as he himself admitted in the presentation of the film.
Depp is fine as "robin hood" of the underworld, short of excellence, but gives a couple of memorable moments. His blunt speech to win the girl (Cotillard) and an end without dialogue in which his eyes says it all.
Bale, however, somewhat disappointing. The followers of the latest productions of this actor is left with the desire to see the interpreter of Batman and Terminator developing a work that lent itself to more nuanced and remains in a police trainee Harry "Dirty" no private life, insensitivity forced and difficult identification by the viewer. Possibly limitió Bale to stick to the script of his character, but it would be desirable greater immersion in Melvin Purvis, especially since ended their hunt for Dillinger pushing to suicide (not a spoiler, the data is in the history books) somewhat difficult to justify what is seen in the film.
Stresses and appreciated the contribution of Cotillard, arguably the heart and the candidness bitter film. His were the main emotions, theirs the necessary feminine touch on a tape with too many tough guys and its a final scene of those who like the lovers of the classics. I think Cotillard is back to a great height and it is not surprising that his work had the recognition of film industry.
The film was shot in HD and not film at the express wish of Mann, who wanted to give a contemporary visual aesthetic to the story for the viewer sientiese I was living an experience of the 30's and seeing a film at the time. Purists will miss the touch of film grain throughout life, although that does not harm the story. The more anxious may feel that the story gets longer meaningless, but who pays to see "Public Enemies" can rest assured that will not throw your money away.
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