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Dark night
Sometimes, trying to be insightful, you watch particular movies that are worth it, and sometimes you get hit with a brick.
Yesterday, I got hit with a brick.
Dark night is inspired by a tragic news event that occurred in America, Colorado, in 2012.
It was the premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises” by Nolan. A young man, dressed as Batman, I think, entered a cinema and committed a massacre. 12 dead, 70 injured.
He was sentenced to 12 life sentences, one for each victim plus 3,000 years in prison, and was not recognized as mentally ill.
The film shows, through snippets of daily life, the characters we will find at the end of the film in the theater. The audience, that is.
They are mostly young people. Today's young people, quite apathetic, smartphone dependent, bored, anesthetized.
It also shows the perpetrator.
Perhaps it is in this context of apathy and immobility that every now and then some young person goes crazy, takes a firearm (an assault weapon), and commits a massacre. Because when you’re young, you (should be)... you are full of energy, and if you can’t unleash it... (this is just my interpretation, not exhaustive, I mean it's just one of the reasons).
The film also aims to be a point of reflection on the use and spread of guns in the United States.
It certainly has its own stylistic signature, which should be recognized.
Watching this film, knowing what it's about, and knowing it's based on a real albeit recent event, the viewer already assumes a sense of anguish, discomfort, unpleasantness.
The atmosphere of the film is meant to amplify such feelings of unease.
It succeeds thanks to the absence of dialogue, fixed camera angles, a Lynchian soundtrack (the music by Maica Armata is truly remarkable), and the cinematography by Hélène Louvart.
The film itself is static and apathetic, gloomy and oppressive, just like its protagonists.
The film sparked some enthusiasm at the Venice Film Festival in the "Horizons" section.
In Italy, it was released recently, but it seems there isn’t a large distribution behind it, quite the opposite. I watched it in a run-down cine club.
Anyway, I didn't like it. Too heavy, boring, never-ending.
But still worth watching because it deserves it.
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