Posts Tagged The Road
"The Road", a path of strong emotions
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 29/11/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
"The Road" goes from strength to strength. Based on the award-winning novel of the same name published in 2006 by Cormac McCarthy, this is a post-apocalyptic story that describes the journey to the south of a father and son in desolate planet after a cataclysm. A plausible science fiction tale whose strength lies in the rawness of his emotions, that no search for futuristic action sequences. "The Road" describes the downfall of society to primitivism in an environment in which suicide is a relief and where a child seems to be the only bastion of propriety.
The film draws (like the book) a gray landscape, devoid of color and life, in which trees are hazardous inert structures put in place that threaten to fall to the unwary passersby. Depravity, cannibalism and despair are present in the daily lives of the survivors who expect nothing more of its existence but resist out of the way. Read the rest of this entry »
The Oscar 2010
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 19/10/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
In the absence of 140 days for the 2010 Oscar ceremony are already envisioning the names that presumably will compete for the prestigious golden statuettes, a list of surprises in store surely due to the doubling of the number of candidates for best film of the year.
Highly predictable
- Nine. On paper it has everything to be among the ten chosen. Is a musical and academic Hollywood love this genre. It is directed by Rob Marshall who already dazzled with "Chicago", another musical, which in 2003 was the big winner of the Oscars (13 nominations and 5 awards, including Best Picture). It features a cast of six actors exception of Oscar winners. If "Nine" is not nominated is a great failure for production.
The economic crisis, a "thriller" coming to theaters
By Fernando Mexia - Film , Economics - 21/10/2008
At other times resistant to economic downturns, Hollywood makes these days numbers on credit problems, lack of confidence on Wall Street and the fear of recession. In recent decades the studies went from film companies to large corporations with many different business interests. A double-edged sword because while giving credit to the producers, puts them squarely in the economic turmoil. In the past, Hollywood boasted take heart when things went wrong for other sectors because people took refuge in the movies to forget their sorrows. Today, the lockers are a part of the world of cinema, whose diversification has led to increased costs now can not be maintained. Today, research budgets and postpone production cut for next year because they can not cope with the planned launch campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »








