💬 Review The Goldfinch

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Name of the movie you are reviewing: The Goldfinch



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The Goldfinch not only tells a life full of events, but undertakes to transpose life in its entirety on the screen. Just the latter is the real protagonist of the film, which when viewed under this key becomes something extremely complex. Not one, but more lives. A succession of events. A river of existences that converge and repeat themselves cyclically waiting for the missed link destined not to unite, but to break the chain that unites us all.

Review:
The film tells the tragic story of a boy, Theodore, who survived a bomb attack on the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Finding himself an orphan (the mother died in the same event, while the father has been gone for years), he must learn to make his way in the world and to react to life with his head held high. Told in this way, the film does not seem anything special, but the turning point comes with the advance of the film. The registers follow one another like a train, overlap, compensate each other. One moment the film is a story of formation and the moment after a mystery, to then become a drama in the purest form of the term. Crowley's winning choice was to emphasize the narrative differences so much that they made the film think of something extremely disconnected, yet deeply coherent and unified. The viewer is submerged by many "flashes" of life. It's like watching a myriad of slides scrolling the screen without logical solution. And the end result is surprisingly totalizing.

In support of the technical sector, which is truly of a high standard (especially thanks to the direction of photography by Oscar winner Roger Deakins), we find a truly amazing range of actors for a film released on the market exclusively through digital support. Ansel Elgort convinces even more than in the past. The more “navigated” performances of Nicole Kidman, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson and, above all, Jeffrey Wright, perfect in the role of the antiquarian mentor, also contribute to pushing the rhythm of the film.

It is not easy to match so many different aspects, so many "visions" in a film, but "The Goldfinch" is proof that a cinema hybridized in itself is certainly possible, if implemented with knowledge of the facts and not just to seek an alternative point of view on a story told over and over again.

Would you recommend this to other users? Definitely yes!

Rating(1-5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐
 
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