Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen performing together in a film directed by Harris. That is, two of my favorite actors - one of whom is also a good director - in a western. There was hope very well, at least in terms of fun, and instead Appaloosa left me cold. I'm not disappointed, but I have not even had a great time to see it. Come to think, though, I do not think this is an accident. In other words, if a film can make plans, I believe that the Appaloosa is not fun .
Ed Harris, again, is a good director, I also suspect that absolutely did not care anything about money or success. This is his second film as a writer (he also wrote the screenplay with Robert Knott, adapting a novel by Robert Parker) after the beautiful Pollock dating back to 2000. But Harris is first and foremost an actor, and when they want to make the author does (well), or no, this could already be suspected that the film does not aspire to be a blockbuster.
Appaloosa is actually a work cold and anti-spectacular. The settings and costumes are western styles, but the basic canons of the genre not stop there. Look at the shootings and duels: there is a minimum of tension in them, no suspense. Just someone kills someone else, and even of surprise. There are these two characters that live in symbiosis Beckett "professional" for years, but talking only the bare minimum, but that ultimately will separate suddenly without batting an eyelid. The recitation of Harris, Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons is forcibly expressionless, without pathos. The landscapes, usually a strong point of the western genre, there are great, but bleak and desolate ... I could go on and on with evidence and detail, but there is enough to suspect that Appaloosa is actually a portrait of desolation in reports of human feelings, in other words, are nothing more than a weight problem. Better not have any, to be lone rangers, rather than go and get mixed up in friendship or love, which are worse than quicksand, when one believes, will remain under humiliated and dejected, disappointed, cheated, in substance will always lose something. And so the form of cold and seemingly bleak film is actually the perfect mirror of his substance. Of course, then, is a film that leaves cold: what matters is that it actually Appaloosa is a good movie, and Ed Harris is always a big one.
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