television say that it takes many heads to the movies today would be commenting on the obvious and, despite the obvious that I love, not will commit. Today I finished to stand up to the Herculean epic saga that is Red Riding . And not that it is particularly long, or that has a medieval history or anything like that. Are only three chapters and a half hours each, but every minute is charged with a density which will use a comparative Jethro Tull: Thick as a brick . Y Red Riding is that plays the trick of pure film noir, that of "I've got you here ... But no!" largest known. But let's start at the beginning. What is Red Riding ? Adaptation of David Peace's novels from the Channel4 (eye, is not the BBC, if not the great channel that broadcasts The IT Crowd and that it was very disappointed last year with Dead Set) that form the tetralogy Red Riding , ie who have been upset one of the four that comprise, 1977. Directed by three different realizadorez: 1974, by Julian Jarrold; 1980, by James Marsh (whose documentary Man on Wire won the Oscar last year) and 1983 by Anand Tucker. Is indebted to the great American movies and English black detective genre and its plot, but completely isolated from it by their treatment at the visual and literary treatment. We are not in the brilliant (and vibrant) Dennis Lehane, but rather to the more dark and gloomy Fincher, that it was great to run before getting romantic epics. For if one were to use a movie to compare with this ambitious production may not have solutions, so it would have to mix two: Zodiac, the denser Fincher, obsessive student of the psychology of the characters, and Seven , the more cryptic Fincher, truculent and pessimistic that shook the theater 90. Good reference, but what meets the expectations?
To begin, I must say that Red Riding meets what is proposed: the viewer has to see the three parties which schoolgirl hooked on physics or chemistry. It is impossible not to watch the screen during that hour and a half just magnetic hard every episode. Hypnotism with which the directors illustrate the story (especially Marsh in the second part) makes everything before us to show us in a purely psychological, almost Freudian. Red Riding sinks into your subconscious by the intelligent use of photography and sound, is a movie meticulously led in its most technical. Never before had shown a more depressing England (not even in The Black Adder ), Yorkshire had never before shown so little as a human, so sickly, to live is to die a little each day. As Paul Schrader, the black film is a matter of style, almost a way of life, and from production has been made clear to the three directors. In the sites we visited, such as cities like Manchester or villages led by a chief chuloputas, we ran into darkest days that gray where the sun is more in demand than a job, and where opportunities to thrive happen to be police and not very honest. The three directors delve into the personality of his three successive players (Andrew Garfield's great discovery, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey) creating oppressive and depressing environments, small spaces where the protagonists are almost framed and this makes them stand still. And here we find one of the virtues of this remarkable trilogy distribution. Is English, no money back and the children have no role, ergo it had to have impeccable performances, but all with one thing in common: almost sickly inscrutable. All the actors are outstanding levels without diarrhea gestures to express emotions. Seeing the actors to move is all a treat, from the Mark Addy plump drinking while listening to his filthy apartment to a young Andrew Garfield smoking in a pub full of smoke as thick as a bowl of chocolate. And all without forgetting a feast for actors and spectators, cosets secondary characters well defined but appear only in the work, especially Bob Craven or John Daws. We therefore, an absolute exercise in style at all levels.
But Red Riding is not perfect, if not talk about something and the masterpiece of noir on television, and although this is a risky and courageous series, does not hold water because of various problems, all linked by the desire to be great like the confusing masterpieces written by the geniuses of the genre, especially Hammett. David Peace and screenwriter of the series looking to loop the loop with jumps particularly complex and prevent the viewer completely imbued with the powerful story that is contemplated. And, as I said before, it is difficult to look away to the lush staging that we are seeing, but this does not mean that you are understanding what is happening. Wisely, the series will raise in each of its episodes a crime McGuffin apparent. Characters know, guess or guess your intentions, and we move into plots and subplots that, in turn, branch off on, and every new character that brings some information appears to open a new path. In the first episode we go from a murder to a love story of three bands (trio would not say romantic because in Yorkshire there is no room for it) between the anti-heroic protagonist, the mother of a murdered and the murderer, also sensing that something about that young man young hustler named JB. But this increases in the second. Starring Paddy Considine and located in 1980, looks like we will see something related to this pseudo Northern Jack the Ripper to then finish giving a completely different turn and leaving the viewer with a sensción weird, since without us aware of what happens, the heart is going at breakneck speed by the brutal turn of script that comes in, literally the last minute of the episode. And when the third begins, one honestly will not know where the story. Apparently all connections are through 1974, the story of journalist Eddie Dunford, the plot is re-structured around the murderer of children, yet begins with most of the characters in 1980, especially the unpleasant Bob Craven (Sean Harris , seen in the first season of Ashes to ashes), and although everything seems to be really spinning and closed, we are reminded of some inevitable questions: Why did the character of BJ, secondary apparent in all the episodes, it is extremely important to the final and we know nothing him? Why do not we know nothing of the murderer? Why has so little weight in the main plot, although hint along the nearly 300 minutes of television? and, more importantly, why can not take you seriously out something where Pepón Nieto?
However, despite its shortcomings forgivable, Red Riding is an experience, for better and for wrong. Sorry I can not attach the trailer powerful, but insertion is disabled.
But Red Riding is not perfect, if not talk about something and the masterpiece of noir on television, and although this is a risky and courageous series, does not hold water because of various problems, all linked by the desire to be great like the confusing masterpieces written by the geniuses of the genre, especially Hammett. David Peace and screenwriter of the series looking to loop the loop with jumps particularly complex and prevent the viewer completely imbued with the powerful story that is contemplated. And, as I said before, it is difficult to look away to the lush staging that we are seeing, but this does not mean that you are understanding what is happening. Wisely, the series will raise in each of its episodes a crime McGuffin apparent. Characters know, guess or guess your intentions, and we move into plots and subplots that, in turn, branch off on, and every new character that brings some information appears to open a new path. In the first episode we go from a murder to a love story of three bands (trio would not say romantic because in Yorkshire there is no room for it) between the anti-heroic protagonist, the mother of a murdered and the murderer, also sensing that something about that young man young hustler named JB. But this increases in the second. Starring Paddy Considine and located in 1980, looks like we will see something related to this pseudo Northern Jack the Ripper to then finish giving a completely different turn and leaving the viewer with a sensción weird, since without us aware of what happens, the heart is going at breakneck speed by the brutal turn of script that comes in, literally the last minute of the episode. And when the third begins, one honestly will not know where the story. Apparently all connections are through 1974, the story of journalist Eddie Dunford, the plot is re-structured around the murderer of children, yet begins with most of the characters in 1980, especially the unpleasant Bob Craven (Sean Harris , seen in the first season of Ashes to ashes), and although everything seems to be really spinning and closed, we are reminded of some inevitable questions: Why did the character of BJ, secondary apparent in all the episodes, it is extremely important to the final and we know nothing him? Why do not we know nothing of the murderer? Why has so little weight in the main plot, although hint along the nearly 300 minutes of television? and, more importantly, why can not take you seriously out something where Pepón Nieto?
However, despite its shortcomings forgivable, Red Riding is an experience, for better and for wrong. Sorry I can not attach the trailer powerful, but insertion is disabled.