The main problem that can present the viewer of Lies it is expected more than what it truly is and may even give under any possible interpretation. For its confusing trailer could expect an intricate psychological and political thriller with the current background Palestinian conflict, almost slapstick dark side of Burn After Reading of The Coens, because, as JK Simmons said in the film of the brothers, "that someone will call me when something makes sense," which was more or less what we announced. Works the way a couple of years ago when some took a tremendous disappointment to see blood Diamond, Edward Zwick's always fireworks, and check that it was only an action movie so well done to the system model Study: love story and action sequences for a purported thriller camouflaged social criticism served with a great achievement at the hands of a craftsman more than competent enough (when the script allows it). And it is no more, no tricks magic or double readings, or the highbrow and the complexity of Syriana naive punditry or the emptiness of The Kingdom and the virulent tragedy Jarhead, a simple plot that the script tries to take the limit by a set literary mirror so obvious subtext is the perfect example of how the current system: Hollywood gives the viewer the opportunity to think there is a possible criticism of the West from within the swarm with a blockbuster with a former teen idol and a of the best players in the world whose hobby is to build brawl wherever it happens and it ends up being a very light version of Lawrence of Arabia And if it works, beyond the idealized presence of Di Caprio's character, caught between two worlds, the raw image shown in the most powerful of this world turned here into a kind of Orwellian Party that everything looks and controls.
And it is more than obvious that David Lean's masterpiece, is itself rich in its portrayal of a different culture and a character full of nuances, is a very marked relation to fire in Ignatius's novel, or at least it seems according to the script by William Monahan. No longer a cyber version of the classic and adventure of the 60: a guy who works for a Western power in the middle of a work Middle East conflict and start to feel uncomfortable with his country for his lies while ago to the local culture and more choose to be a Muslim. We include a romance with a shoehorn and there we have of Lies. The characters are flat while the plot is, but seek to deceive the viewer, and the protagonist, played by DiCaprio, gets tired of the romance of its construction. TE Lawrence is a design whose remorse are subject to the romantic subplot which disfigures the whole and a colleague killed in the beginning, a villager used by the United States and rejected when the time comes. We have a good trail of topics, seen recently in the straps are appointed by Gaghan, Berg, Mendes or Munich, Spielberg, with the latter than on the West's guilt, cruelty and alienation caused by our capitalist system and the dispensability of the individual politicians and bureaucrats. It is too scientific and rigorous when it comes to explaining every little detail of the operations but nevertheless uses strokes to describe the psyche of his characters. For as good tape of Scott works as a James Bond is less glamorous, despite the multicultural painted on intended. There are brilliantly filmed action scenes, good performances, especially Crowe and a magnificent Mark Strong, and a great photograph, besides the hard work of the director in natural scenes, reminiscent of Black Hawk Down undervalued , containing some of the best action sequences of modern war genre, which coincidentally shares its treatment hero's romantic hero, but disagrees with the view given in North America, since the incident in Mogadishu was rather pamphlet.
But the really interesting to see how the film is shown to the U.S.. It is true that anti-Americanism is something approaching pop people, perhaps aware of his proximity to the proximity of its release to the elections proclaimed Obama as president, but no less interesting and real. The Hoffman superbly interpreted by Crowe Allenby is an extension of the classic David Lean, a manipulator and a liar. Characterized as a fat middle-aged to live in a big house, boat and drink beer in abundance, sits in his office and, as if it were the Christ The Truman Show, Ferris controls life and by extension , the world through a huge screen full of buttons, while so blatant, he cares for his country, represented in that very American family that is: take your child to urinate and tells you how bie, and allowed be a friendly and affectionate father at football matches of his daughter. The well-known U.S. double standards in its greatest exponent. Just so you can celebrate Thanksgiving and transmit the image from the Capriana moral and family photo, that destroyed Mendes American Beauty can start killing people, starting a new war, and used repeatedly to different ways people to get rid of the minimum with ease. Also fueling the politicians who rule and ordered without really knowing what they do, those who are watching wild Eastern peoples, and whose asses were saved by men in the field. And back to make comparisons with Lawrence of Arabia , the character, knowing how to work in your country, the self-appointed policeman of the world, decides to leave (also back Munich) and leave the Muslim countries themselves to resolve their disputes, perhaps the solution, since These are're more than to trick billionaires Hoffman satellites with just a blizzard in the desert. This last point puts the finger on the pulse of the American system: the technology is weak and the weak, and the enemies know how to make it fall, also attacked Western dependence technological life (Crowe's character is blinded by blizzard cited above). For this message so apparently incendiary, is a shame that everything runs as it does, with a climax as long as typical decaffeinated, because if You proclaim pessimism, be brave and act accordingly. The final appearance, very true seventh cavalry, Jordanian secret service, is an absolute inconsistency, although it seeks to unite the aforementioned blow to U.S. technology by the different style of negotiating and acting that are there. For the latter, I take of Lies as a brilliant action movie, I do not know if the best, but the least disappointing.
