I have been a fan and collector of MM since 1993 and I am somewhat involved in the fandom of the most beautiful in the world, I follow several fan accounts, including the official account and one of a very thick and average collector who was all calling for a boycott , it is not a big deal if it is defined on what we are going to base ourselves to make the criticism.
Namely, if we look at it as a cinematographic event, that is, we see beyond whether or not we like how it was represented, we pay attention to technical aspects, we enjoy seeing recreations copied from photos and moments, we do not lose sight of the fact that it is not only a recreation (more or less free) of a book, but that book is a fiction and not a biography and finally we know that it is a recreation of a fiction and not a biopic... so it is a good movie that we enjoy sitting in the armchair at home (although I personally would have gone to see it in the cinema without hesitation).
Now if we are going to see it with the intention of finding a linear movie, with a beginning, middle and end that shows us the life of MM as if it were a biopic, without a doubt we are going to face the wall because it is far from that. To make matters worse, it is closer to being an experimental film than a commercial film and there I give the right to director Andrew Dominik (CHOPPER, KILLING THEM SOFTLY, 2 episodes of the 2nd of MINDHUNTER), who said that it was a film like an "avalanche of images and events.
Basically the film is like when you dream, everything mixed and confused, with dreamlike and impossible images, we don't dream a plot with feet and head, or are they going to say yes? Good that's how they decided to do it, who are we to say it's wrong? No one.
There are very good moments cinematographically speaking, the recreations are down to earth, superlative photography and by far the best of the film is Ana de Armas, who in my opinion does an excellent job, consecrating and at least deserving of an Oscar nomination, more so when Michelle Williams was nominated for the same character in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, also very successful, but the Cuban is better.
Those who criticized her even for her accent already in the trailer that they rub her, she is not only beautiful (in my opinion) but also characterized as the only and best, doubly beautiful. She does a job with feeling and sensitivity, all the others rotate like a set around her, as if they were the solar system around the sun. She is everything in this film, a hypnotic performance (like the incidental music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) any way you look at it.
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