Beautiful and exciting the last Ron Howard's work, half artisan half "big name" Hollywood industry. I do not know at the bottom of his filmography, but what I've seen has always struck me and left something to think about: Apollo 13, Ransom , the unforgettable A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man . Great performances, technically impeccable, joyfully mainstream. Yet in these films can be found from time to time a great psychological study, an unusual narrative choice, loving philology in the reconstruction period, above all, a questioning of the dominant ideology of the American dream is basically about: Howard from the exact center of the production system, persists in trying to be the author, and especially to show the false notes - often tragic - that characterize the society and history of your country (including the director loves to bring cinema events that actually happened, "true stories ").
latter Frost / Nixon , very nice, goes to the full path traced by the author with the films mentioned: it is a work technically impeccable, exciting and rhythmic, the subject is given by the famous interview with British journalist David Frost with Richard Nixon in 1977, Peter Morgan took out three years ago a play, starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, and the same Morgan, Langella and Sheen are found respectively in the film as a writer and actors. The script of course works perfectly, and the two actors are very good, especially Langella in the role of "Tricky Dick."
But Howard, as I said, not satisfied with the great show. His film is not at all comforting fact: there is a deep bitterness in the film, and a kind of tired distrust everyone and everything is perceived from the first scene. The clash between the former American president and the British journalist, now, is the exact opposite of a battle between good and evil, for no one will be saved from the moral point of view. Nixon, well aware of his misdeeds, just look for the latest interview opportunity to save face, while Frost, far from being a champion of justice or ethics, is acting only for personal success. On the other hand, you say, why should it be otherwise? These people are asked to be good professionals, to do their job well: it will be just the professionalism and the utmost faith in their work that Frost will lead to the triumph and the defeat of Nixon. Yet in the film there is really no winner: even the upright James Reston Jr. (Sam Rockwell), a sworn enemy of the former president will be forced to tighten up, disgusted, the hand of the latter, remains a word just given and reneging on its requirements more rooted. At the end of Nixon, for which the film shows at the bottom that they have no pity, will be defeated by his fellow, a person like him indifferent to morality and ethics: get out and destroyed not only the image of a former president but that of power in general, and perhaps even the entire America.
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