Little Master of the now 83enne but timeless masterpiece, this Sidney Lumet.
The American returns to the big screen telling a family tragedy.
This is the story of two brothers, Andy and Hank Hanson, both in great economic crisis in key moments of their lives. Andy, the eldest of two devises a plan that seeks to involve right now Hank. Andy decides to rob a jewelry store to "family business", one of the parents. Not being able to pull back now, Hawk condescends to the plan.
Having worked there in the past and knowing alarms, cameras and storage times, the two predict the perfect shot. However, something goes wrong and the situation is more complicated ....
to "Honor thy father and mother" is a hard, visceral anguish as they occur and the sin of every single character. Characters are characterized by very well thanks to the technical director on which the film, that of flasback. With this Lumet makes the feelings of each character from different points of view from different angles and enables you to build the story slowly, piece by piece until then result in the cathartic final. In addition, Lumet can not lapse into any occasion with the rhetoric, while maintaining a balanced tone, far from easy moralizing, even in a story in which the human being shows itself in all its pettiness.
This is also due to the talented cast on which he could rely. First of all the masterful Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role of poor older brother able to hide behind the mask of ordinariness. Latter 'as good and could be limited to acting using expressive looks and gestures, making the script useless. A discharged him from the shoulder Ethan Hawke and Marisa Tomei sexy, putting over "naked" by the director of Philadelphia. Bravissimo last but not now find the expert Albert Finney in the role of grieving father and murdered by pain.
Lumet gives us a great movie not only for the undeniable technical skill and the excellent performances of the actors, but also because it tells a story of today in a world where individualism, ambition, greed and blind Only the interest, break down, for most of the time, successfully the true values \u200b\u200bof life, eventually prevail on family relationships more expensive. This is the message I wanted to send us by the director: the complex nature of imperfect men.
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