In Bruges
USA 2008
DIRECTOR
Martin McDonagh
INTERPRETERS
Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson and Clémence Poésy
SCREENPLAY
Martin McDonagh
What is "In Bruges"? A noir, a post-post-Tarantino or Coen, postcard or maybe a movie for the beautiful Belgian town (which, after having seen the film no one can deny the will to go there one day). Maybe, just maybe, the classification is made for little minds open, and the director McDonagh (Oscar winner for short always Gleeson) is certainly not the kind of person he thinks to dock to a genre only. Use them in different situations, as if to rape the same rules of the genre. First of all there Bruges (or calls the protagonist: the fucking Bruges), enchanted place chosen by the boss (a devilish Ralph Fiennes) to exile / vacation of two killers after a job gone bad. Place where the characters come into contact with more types of strange city looking forward to the long-awaited orders of the boss. Bruges is a place purifier, but damn, that opens minds, but I want to clear the living. A right place to implement a massacre by Greek tragedy. A city with its "works" and its way of life becomes the mirror of history to tell. On the other side then there are the narratives that solution does not always seem to guess: the gimmicks are too many and some characters seem to function only because sooner or later will be used to embed some crucial moment of history, problems of a good script in the dialogues ( Laughter is serious) but little interested in building on a history that is standing. Nothing so serious because at the end of the day, even if forced, back and bottom of "In Bruges" is a film that thrives on the situation by passing a critical intellectualism end in itself typical of Europe in a humanitarian need comparison with other types of cultures (which is the cornerstone of the theme of travel). McDonagh around the short story, to say what they want and how they want it. Indeed absurd, to cite one example, that a film like this for gourmets spares no details to show "gore" as if it were the last of Turtured movie. "In Bruges" is the apotheosis of how you should not build a movie but it is also the film that we waited so long. If he gives us a trio of high-level interpretations, and at least two scenes to pass on the history of cinema can only make us happy.
Daniele Pellegrini
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