'Find the Dragons' is like a huge box with all its nuances, light and darkness which could say, "that is the forgiveness
wrote, a few weeks ago, after seeing on a pass- the new private-English film director Roland Joffé , find Dragons, I was like obsessed. He said - in that post - was "like when you first met the girl of your dreams and you run out of words ..." .
There are now three-in-the times that I've seen the movie, and maybe I can write a little more distance and without much enthusiasm (although in three excited me, I must admit), and also that distance can be more objective. From what I am sure of is that the impression I was seeing it for what it said Joseph Pieper and quoted Noblejas on your blog : to something big, there is only one 'is good that you exist! " . So are the works of art: one may be contemplating a thousand times and always discover new corners, new lighting and new colors , and-it is also true, as any work of art is not for all tastes (or, as Honorius , one of the characters in the film, 'no all tastes are made to the divine "). Find Dragons, is no exception. is a work of art that exudes divine, and not because they speak of divine things, but because it speaks of things that are divine human (pardon the pun, but it is not the same.) It is a film that need to see more than once to "moderation" the three dimensions ... it does have (and that is not in the often overloaded 3D!).
The story, though preceded by a short sequence of the death of the call, without more, Josemaría - begins in the 80, when ordering a Roberto ( Dougray Scott)-journalist, researching and writing a book on a person who has begun his beatification process and canonization Josemaria Escriva. While you're at it, he discovers that his father Manolo (Wes Bentley )-with which it takes years without speaking and is on the verge of death, was a friend of Escrivá ( Charlie Cox ) and even was with him at the seminary, so he decides to go to Madrid and ask about it. Although her father did not want to remove waters of the past, we just give everything you want. And then I start to tell the story of his friend and his own during a very crude in the history of Spain: Civil War.
Around the metaphor
this is a film not to use . Is different, and hence the diversity of opinions. In Roland Joffe was impressed with many aspects of the life of Saint Josemaría, but above all his humanity, his great love for people, individually, not group-and especially its message that God can be found in most current of life. So he decided to do a story framed in a civil war:
"does that mean that God was there? He says Joffé a interview in the magazine Our Time - and if so, how was this a war? [...] Josemaría chose to defend the individual at a time in which mass movements imposed [...] and yet there he was, with a clear message: "You are not part of a big machine, you are not a 'Model T 'or anything like that. You have your own conscience and must take responsibility arising from your actions. I will not tell you what you should think, what you have to discover yourself "."
is not a biography of the founder of Opus Dei, and who The look will be disappointed (no reason) - but, of course, his work is present in it. The British director has written for the first time in his career, a script that follows the story of friends and Josemaría Manolo : one real and one fictional. The first is decided by the path of love - "not easy, at times running" , as he recalls his father, and Manolo carried away by jealousy, envy, revenge and hatred. And while Roberto will get to know a story that might never had to dig. Everything depends on the willingness to have to find dragons.
So the film: three interweaving stories that will not give greater prominence to one or another. In fact, it is difficult consensus among the audience who is really the protagonist. Joffe not set both the individual plot, but the subject who wanted to show: "Will you be able to forgive?" . The three are to forgive, if you want to live in and peace. It is in these three stories where the writer has his particular vision of "played" . The story of forgiveness. Or, to stick with the symbols of art, find Dragons is like a huge box, with all its nuances, light and darkness which could say "Behold the forgiveness .
Therein lies it seems to me the embarrassment of some to see it. Dragons find is a metaphorical film hundred percent -such as religion, say Joffé in the press Release. So its depth. The funny thing is that all she has left the hand and mind of someone who is declared agnostic. But someone who, as a good anthropologist who seems to be- has been true to himself and wanted to go beyond getting into the intricacies of humanity and putting the viewer in front of himself, saying: "what are you meaning in your life?" .
Living forward
To speak of forgiveness, Joffe puts these stories in an extreme moment of our history: in a fratricidal war which, almost without realizing it, suddenly you were obliged to choose between As they say at the beginning, "kiss the Bible and spit on it" . There was no choice. But it is not history: it greatly simplifies the complexity of war and for everyone to understand. Although is welcome to Roland Joffé not take sides: for the first time in the English cinema, Civil War is not an ideology or partisanship . There are all good and bad, because war is this: people who have been pushed to a situation that they themselves, have become the individual, really wanted. So Dragons find is also a moral blow to those who want "memorable" the past to prosecute and not to forgive . It as well Emili says Avilés a "historical consciousness" : do not forget, "he says Joffé, but remember to forgive and be forgiven, to go ahead and do not anchor ourselves in our past.
What we have before our eyes? A great film, yes. A masterpiece that perhaps not reach the level of The Mission (1986), but is very well worked . The actors do a wonderful (special mention to Charlie Cox and English Unax Ugalde and Alfonso Bassave , as one of the first followers of Escrivá). The music does not equal Ennio Morricone, who wrote the soundtrack to the aforementioned film, but it is emotional Joffé. Well suited to show the inevitability of war, not exalting so epic. In short, a good job of direction: Joffé has risen.
Jaume Figa i Vaello / CineForum2028.wordpress.com / Almudi
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