A review of Point Blank
The economic crisis is coming, tell us. We just got the monthly salary. The crisis does not seem to touch us. The run down quickly, much faster than the time that separates us from the next paycheck. Fall as snowflakes "between the smoothness of days. We can not achieve the conditions of our state, we breathe less oxygen, but do not realize it. The economic crisis is coming, tell us. But they say. I, as I realize, hypoxia, or rather the lack of oxygen, begins to emerge. I open my mouth, open wide, breathing heavily, what little breath just yet. In the end, missing all that air back to let breathe. Also this month is over. I survived this time: I took the next paycheck.
John Calamari with oxygen debt (2009) presents us with a daily torn through the mirror but parallel lives of two families - between Turin and Milan, including a couple (with child) suddenly out of work and a the working mother who has always been there for a short time - on the brink of a crisis (economic). The current crisis is one that we have as a mistral, a wind sooner or later (?) will invest to protect our country while we do not know why. Fathers and mothers in maturity or laid off, children to support and mortgages to pay off. The wind will invest, invest, they - all the film thrives on a combination of expectation and actuality: Created in 2007, far from the actual crisis, filmed between 2008 and 2009, the occurrence of this: even read Squid life Fulvia, the unwed mother in film, on a petition Republic on-line on the very precarious. The young director Milan continues its particular "form" of expression to manifest ed'umanità conditions and human feelings. His look this time focuses on the universe of the "new poor", those who do not want to know the consequences of not paying a mortgage payment, who could lose their homes just as they lost their career in their dismissal from the company or those that call themselves "free" because they can not choose, because of poverty, as a protagonist of the documentary says, just not the same inability to invest and buy but also precludes the freedom to choose another option.
As reported in Squid, Albert Camus said: "There is beauty And there are the oppressed. However difficult it may be, I would remain faithful to both . In this sentence we find the definition of "form" a documentary that uses Squid to give echo to his characters. The equation is simple: the fact, observed with an air of inquiring and documentary, is a reality that every day we live, the "vision" without identify with her, in a sense, we pass quickly. The form shows something from the real and transfigured into beauty, in feeling. It's time to dilate, which linger on and on which to reflect. The equation also involves the oppressed, not hard to find, especially if they are the "new poor "as in this case. The result is an exciting post-neorealist documentary. A reconstruction, through the elegance of a moving image of a reality that is tangential to our own. And then in the filmography of the film we see popular titles such as the director Open City or Accattone , and how not to get them? Reconstruct and reinterpret. Document pretending. Something that differs from the analysis of entomological and analytical documentary reporter, something that does not belong to the category of documentaries tout-court, but gives a nod to the movies in spite of the staging does not belong to it. A documentary "difficult to be distributed "(as defined by the producer of the film). Precarious.
