Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2019 10:16:50 GMT
The 1st and 3rd acts of L'UOMO SENZA GRAVITA (THE MAN WITHOUT GRAVITY) are very charming and have its fair share of surprises,
7/10
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but the 2nd act has a lot of clichés about the emptiness of fame. I get that the men wearing suits are supposed to come off as greedy and soulless, but the scene where they discuss a biography doesn't feel realistic. They claim that they have to embellish the subject's life because the truth won't be interesting enough, but they can't know that because they make this claim before hearing the whole story. What am I talking about?! Why is this an issue?! It's a biography about a man who can float for no apparent reason! You think it won't be a best-seller because of details readers won't even know until after they've paid?! O.J. Simpson managed to sell a book appealing to morbid curiosity simply by making the word "If" smaller than the rest of the title! Also, it's during this section that the movie stops feeling like a magical realism story. That's a genre that's very hard to define, but it has to do with how the characters aknowledge the fantastical element. Once you show people asking whether the title character is using special effects, or you have someone bring up experts who have analyzed the veracity, it becomes a regular fantasy movie. There's nothing wrong with that, but it makes it feel like an entirely different movie.
OSCAR (the protagonist) uses a backpack with weights inside in order to stay on the ground. It somehow stays in good condition throughout the decades. When he's playing Statues with his friend/love interest AGATA, he takes off the backpack and reaches the ceiling. Considering how slowly he floats, there's no way he could've achieved that before she finished counting. There are constant BATMAN tie-ins. You'd think that someone involved (in any capacity) in this production would've pointed out that it makes no sense, since he can't fly. What's worse is that the (rushed) ending (arguably the most important part of any story) revolves around this mistake. I don't just mean the last scene; even the end credits. They play Cristina D'Avena's song that was written specifically for the Italian dub of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. One where the lyrics repeatedly say that the hero runs. To be fair, anyone who grew up listening to it rather than Danny Elfman's composition, and who hasn't seen any episodes since the 90s, can't be expected to have proper knowledge on the Gotham City hero. The song, while catchy on its own, is a terrible opening theme. It doesn't represent the atmosphere nor themes. If one listens to it without any context, they might assume that it's a light-hearted kids show, rather than a dark classic that can be enjoyed by all ages.7/10
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