Clint, Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo
Curiously, two of the most successful films of this period are very similar (at least in structure, but not only). Clint Eastwood are the Hereafter and that of Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo The gang of Santas. Both films
tell the parallel stories of three characters who find themselves at the end of the film to make sense of what they have experienced.
It 'goes without saying that the stories of the two films are totally different. That of Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo is a gentle comedy, well-constructed, funny at times that passes two hours relaxing without being ashamed of having entered the cinema. The films of Clint is a different thing. It 's a movie about death (the three characters are involved in various ways by the experience of the afterlife) and offers some reflections on death: what's next? The chief merit of the film (he has several) is to totally ignore the religious aspect of the matter, but about people who have direct experience, more or less traumatic, and their doubts that they can also be our doubts. For the rest of the film is moving and exciting lives of the sobriety that has made a feature film of Eastwood, then get to know his heart, without exaggeration, without rhetoric, without cunning. And besides, these are the main qualities of the film by Clint.
But another thing unites two seemingly very different film. Both are enjoying considerable success at the box office. Both have to surpass the horrid cinepanettoni De Sica and De Laurentiis.
It should be emphasized, because, along with other analyzed long ago, this is a sign of change. It expresses the common desire, the need felt to reflect, to reason, to want to watch and listen to stories, knowing that it can not be more than the vulgarity of carelessness, and the useless dell'indecoroso, even to the movies as well as on TV. The failures of horrifying television broadcasts Recent confirm this trend. Whether you go on, please ...