Club hypocrites
TV Review
Teens like to sharp play, and at this remarkable easily pack in łopoty. Ideal for a film. In recent years the UK has successfully described him, Noel Clarke, here in Poland spoke of the "Mall" and "Suicide Room" in the US but with this topic decided to face the director of "Ogni St. Elmo" - Joel Schumacher, who perhaps its distinctive style does not have, but it can reliably and interesting to talk about people and their problems.
Sam "Up" (Polish translators title should be harsh fine for the same translation, which for about a year younger Disney movie) was established with standard resident.
We have teenagers of both sexes and of different ages, from different social groups who share only that each of them has a problem. With his personality, with his family, with the expectations of the environment or future plans. Care of the main character, a dealer White Mike (Chace Crawford), are caused by the death of his mother, after which a year can not pick up or start an honest life, so trades among rich kids a first-class merchandise. We meet him at a time when the market just enter a new drug called "Twelve." Mike even though he does not want to distribute, the effects of taking this combination of cocaine and ecstasy lost by teenagers will not miss it. And besides him really in the film is still a lot of other characters, you can say that even too much, because their stories spontaneously disappear or remain unfinished.
Topic criminal breaks in the middle of the film, and the effects of the grand finale on the eighteenth birthday of the most beautiful girls in school are completely ignored, as if it were a standard thriller, where the top can be assumed that everything will work out well. And as you know, life is not a fairy tale, but the voice of the narrator somewhat contrasts with the seriousness of this statement. Technically Kiefer Sutherland is great and his narrative is not bored, attracts attention, only that the procedure itself ... it seems as if taken from a different genre, more fairytale in which a powerful voice tells the whole story.
In addition, it is not the interesting thing, when very important information, building on the personality of the characters and their past, just like we learn, in the form of spoken text voiceover. It looks like going the simplest resistance line. Sometimes also the narrator recognizes the default viewer too little and presents his obvious feelings of the characters and the conclusions of the scenes.
In the end, "Up" is a drama, so you should not teach him how everything on the tray. Although technically was really nicely done, it is easy to empathize with him, identify with the characters, only the developers simply did not come last act. I am disappointed that at any rate the older and more experienced dealer, played by Curtis Jackson, behaving not much wiser than his teenage customers, and the theme from the gun that starts the final action is very far-fetched, and has little in common with the logic. After all, there are thousands of the same guns, and as if that was not enough, even if you have someone's arms, does not mean he killed the previous owner.
The final layer of substantive moral is also not surprising, and even sounds pretty naive and trivial. Perhaps some of us can live only as irresponsible, doomed to self-destruction unit, or addicted to drugs mediocre. In this case, the message of the film will not be helpful for them. Because, as is often the case, the American cinema does not discover America. Regales the viewer an idealized world where men have the radiators on their bellies, and all the women are very sexy (Show me one ugly teenager in this film). In the image Schumacher lacks the courage content and also putting the deeper, more controversial proposals. Could use an extra half hour to finish the stories Chris, Jessica and Hunter. "Up" is an interesting and very pleasant to watch, thanks in large and really good, naturalistic acting and performed by actors are relatively unknown yet, but this remains a very simple, quickly created and the like unfinished. Manufacturers should be more ambitious and aim for a more maturer target group of beneficiaries.
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