✔️ 2022-04-18 08:30:08 – Paris/France.
By: Juan Pablo Martinez Zuniga
Memories in digital
Bazin said that the great merit of cinema had been to convert the “so” of the novel and of the theater into the “then” of the screen. Similarly, Linklater observes History and its history as a succession of moments that simply happen, with no more illusory causality than the natural passage of time. He does not look for reasons or logic beyond human instincts, almost in the biological sense of the term, which would explain the weakness of his cinema for the problems of children, adolescents and adults in vital crisis. It ends up undermining the strengths of a story that wallows in the nostalgia of saying nothing at the end even when too much is happening through this web of time suspended in the memory of its director who, like all of us, strives to dramatize the moments that consolidate our desire, our vital spaces that shaped our particular universe during childhood. But Linklater goes further, coating his mnemonic exercise with this digital rotoscopy that he likes so much and that he used in other projects like "Awakening to Life" (2001) or "A Look in the Dark" (2006) as a simulation of reality. ., which one might think underscores the idea that everything is a memory disguised as magical realism, or as close to "magical realism" as a little gringuito who grew up with his large family in the suburbs during the sixties. can conceive now that he has the means.
This colorful fable uses the iconic space race between the United States and Russia nearly 60 years ago to symbolize the structure by which America's political and socio-cultural growth was analogous to the life of a young boy named Stanley. (Milo Coy) who is selected by NASA. to maneuver one of its capsules because due to an engineering flaw, it was built too small for adult astronauts. The plot begins precisely with his recruitment and then branches off into a second act (and much of the third) where, in psychological time, Stan remembers everything but everything that shaped his life in this childhood populated by parents. , conservative siblings. of all ideologies and behaviors, games, interpersonal and school dynamics, food, daily routines, favorite TV shows and a long etcetera. Practically everything that makes up someone's daily life and modus vivendi. The circle closes with the implications and meanings of what his space experience meant to Stanley and living in a country still in a state of cultural metamorphosis with a broad sense of wonder and relative optimism. So what is this movie about? You're welcome, it's simply an invitation for us spectators to ride a carousel where Linklater will take us hand in hand to all the nooks and crannies that make up his memory and can push away the abuse of the void and the trivial that he does not does not chain or create something useful or also to be very agreeable to the high degree of identification that exists with us and our own childhood experiences (especially those of us who are over 40), when these memories that we now assure form us and shape us, seem as distant as the same Moon.
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