3619 - PSICOPATA AMERICANO (2000)

Christian Bale vestido para matar

PSICOPATA AMERICANO (AMERICAN PSYCHO, USA, 2000) – Numa análise preliminar, PSICOPATA AMERICANO pode de ser definido como um festival de violência sem sentido: um yuppie de Wall Street (Christian Bale), protótipo do metrossexual do início do século, passa seus dias se admirando no espelho e matando seus adversários profissionais e as mulheres com quem eventualmente sai, sem qualquer motivo aparente. Contudo, o filme pode ser visto como uma acerba crítica aos executivos cuja identidade se derrete no processo de se destacar numa sociedade superficialmente homogeneizada. Pode muito bem ter sido a projeção do que vivemos hoje, com a exposição pessoal turbinada (redes sociais, sobretudo) e o vício exibicionista praticamente incontrolado. Christian Bale é perfeito para papéis de desajustados. Prime. At first, AMERICAN PSYCHO may be defined as a senseless bloody festival: a Wall Street yuppie (Christian Bale), a typical millennium metrosexual has fun admiring himself and beating up adversaries and women, indistinctively. However, the movie might be seen as an acerbic criticism to the executives whose identities melt in the process of trying to be different in a homogenized society. The movie may be a projection of what we live today, with boosted personal exposition (social networks, mainly) and the exhibitionist vice practically uncontrolled.   

        

3618 - NEIL ARMSTRONG - THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON (2012)

Neil, forever

NEIL ARMSTRONG, THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON (USA, 2012) - On the 21st July 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on another world. Learning to fly just as the super-sonic era dawned, and honing his piloting skills flying Navy combat missions over North Korea, Armstrong was a product of his time. With additional experience as an elite, rocket-powered, X-15 test pilot he had just the right skill set NASA was looking for in 1961, when they recruited their second group of astronauts to shoot for the Moon. Achieving the first Moon landing and taking that first step onto its surface just eight years later, not only transformed human history, but also it changed Armstrong's own life as well. Drawing on private family archives and told through a series of intimate interviews, this is the story of the real Neil Armstrong, by those who loved, lived and worked with 'the first man on the Moon. On YouTube.     

   

3617 - AS CURVAS DA VIDA (2012)

Amy Adams olhando para você, e Clint aloof...

       CURVAS DA VIDA (THE TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE, USA, 2012) – Esportes nem sempre dão certo em filmes. Aqui, o assunto, aparentemente, é sobre beisebol, mas o cerne da história é a relação estremecida de um viúvo mal-humorado, Gus (Clint Eastwood) com sua filha, Mickey (Amy Adams), uma advogada. É emocionante a forma pela qual os dois vão se descobrindo, afastando os fantasmas e os traumas, até conseguirem um entendimento modificador de suas vidas. Pena que o ótimo John Goodman tenha tido um papel tão pequeno. Justin Timberlake cumpre sua função de contrapartida amorosa para Mickey, sem convencer muito, embora seja um ator razoável (e ter começado no Mickey Mouse Club). Só para constar: Amy Adams nunca esteve tão bonita. E. claro, Clint é obrigatório. Sports are never right in movies. Here, baseball is allegedly the main theme, but the real thing is the estranged relationship between a grumpy widower, Gus (Clint Eastwood) and his daughter, Mickey (Amy Adams), a lawyer. It is really touching the way both of them get to know each other, pushing the ghosts and the traumas away, until they manage to get a modifying understanding in their lives. It a pity that the great John Goodman (also a good actor) has had a minor role. Justin Timberlake unconvincedly fulfills the task of being Mickey’s loving counterpart, despite the fact he took part in the Mickey Mouse Club). Just for the record: Amy Adams has never been so gorgeous. Moreover, Clint Eastwood is obligatory.