Year: 1999
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Original Title: Summer of Sam
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Ben Gazzarra
Availability: DVD
Plot: In 1977 of disco and punk of enzymes, a maniac by the media dubbed "Son of Sam" kills couples in parked cars, taking them to gunshots in short time, in the district you create the psychosis of a serial killer, the police do not know how to get on the local mafia - disturbed in their business - unofficially puts a bounty sull'omicida. (Fonte: repubblica.it)
Commento: Spike Lee dipinge un sensazionale affresco della New York del 1977, mettendo i puntini sulle i a quell’estate contraddistinta da un caldo insopportabile, dal blackout che provocò saccheggi, vandalismi e tafferugli nel Bronx e nel Queens, ma soprattutto dal clima di terrore instaurato da David Richard Berkowitz, più noto come “Il Figlio di Sam”, l’assassino della calibro .44 . Lee, nonostante il titolo esplicativo, non pone l’accento sugli avvenimenti del serial killer ma ci gira sempre in tondo. Non gli ascrive un ruolo di rilievo, ma lo utilizza come capro espiatorio per la creazione di a fabulous excursion multi-ethnic city. In the summer, Sam will find themselves Italian-Americans from the morality that are only apparently incorporates increasingly venting their frustrations in the tendering for the different, and then to challenge it openly and without light to go on gays, blacks, Puerto Ricans and punk . 77 Why, gentlemen, is the year of punk. The punk part by Britain and the United States comes up expanding visibly up to create a real movement that will materialize in places like CBGB, the local historian, which marked the debut of Talking Heads and the Ramones, who in a sequence of the film is meticulously reconstructed. Spike Lee tells the story of an Italian (John Leguizamo) who, driven by intolerance and dall'ottusità hatched by his friends, ever betray his brother played by Adrien Brody in punk anarchist suspected of being the serial killer.
Do not think you are dealing with a thriller in the strict sense, but to enlarge the sense of the word and enjoy a job that tries to describe a society easily influenced by prejudices and phobias. The crux of the matter (murder) are only mentioned and shown, almost, in a didactic and journalism while trying to give prominence to the behavior dictated by uncertainty and fear of difference. The film, in all its length, it is pulled and enjoyable thanks a lot al repentino cambio del registro stilistico adottato dall'uomo dietro la macchina da presa che, in base alla circostanza, accellera o decellera l’andamento globale dello sviluppo. Un po’ pleonastiche le parentesi sentimentali del personaggio interpretato da Leguizamo, anche se trovano la loro ragione d’esistere nell’interpretazione perfetta di un cast decisamente sopra alle righe (parecchie le scene improvvisate e decisamente riuscite). Oltre ai già citati Brody e Leguizamo (forse troppo legato ad una determinata tipologia caratteristica) da segnalare l’ottima Mira Sorvino nei panni della moglie dello stesso e Ben Gazzarra nel ruolo del boss mafioso difensore della città. Ruolo rilevante è svolto anche dalla musica che accompanies it, often evocative sequences such as, for example, in which Adrien Brody seeks schitarrando rebellion and destroying his Fender Stratocaster and the son of Sam continues to claim victims while in the background stands the immense Baba o 'Riley historians Who. The screenplay
although rich in implications and subtleties is quite solid, so applaud the good that Imperioli shows certainly have talent as a scriptwriter and not just as an actor (perhaps many will remember him as the grandson of Tony in the series "The Sopranos "), among others present in a small part in this film.
Definitely a good movie.
Do not think you are dealing with a thriller in the strict sense, but to enlarge the sense of the word and enjoy a job that tries to describe a society easily influenced by prejudices and phobias. The crux of the matter (murder) are only mentioned and shown, almost, in a didactic and journalism while trying to give prominence to the behavior dictated by uncertainty and fear of difference. The film, in all its length, it is pulled and enjoyable thanks a lot al repentino cambio del registro stilistico adottato dall'uomo dietro la macchina da presa che, in base alla circostanza, accellera o decellera l’andamento globale dello sviluppo. Un po’ pleonastiche le parentesi sentimentali del personaggio interpretato da Leguizamo, anche se trovano la loro ragione d’esistere nell’interpretazione perfetta di un cast decisamente sopra alle righe (parecchie le scene improvvisate e decisamente riuscite). Oltre ai già citati Brody e Leguizamo (forse troppo legato ad una determinata tipologia caratteristica) da segnalare l’ottima Mira Sorvino nei panni della moglie dello stesso e Ben Gazzarra nel ruolo del boss mafioso difensore della città. Ruolo rilevante è svolto anche dalla musica che accompanies it, often evocative sequences such as, for example, in which Adrien Brody seeks schitarrando rebellion and destroying his Fender Stratocaster and the son of Sam continues to claim victims while in the background stands the immense Baba o 'Riley historians Who. The screenplay
although rich in implications and subtleties is quite solid, so applaud the good that Imperioli shows certainly have talent as a scriptwriter and not just as an actor (perhaps many will remember him as the grandson of Tony in the series "The Sopranos "), among others present in a small part in this film.
Definitely a good movie.
Memorable Scene: as described above, with the song by The Who, a dialogue between a policeman and Ben Gazzarra who plays the boss: "You must help us" and what you want me to do? Arrest me alone? ".
Rating: 4 / 5 rating
Trash: nd
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