(Western, USA 2010, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin)
The Coen brothers return to shoot a western film after the success of No Country for Old Men "and they do a remake of" The Grit "with John Wayne film of 1969, taken in turn by an eponymous book of Charles Portis.
The story is very simple: a fourteen year old girl's father is murdered, she seeks revenge and turns to an old sheriff's nicknamed "The Grit" but also a Texas Rangers on the trail of . I tre formeranno un’improbabile squadra che partirà alla ricerca dell’assassino.
Il film, diciamolo subito, non è un capolavoro e nemmeno una delle migliori prove dei fratelli Coen. Si apprezzano certamente la splendida fotografia, i dialoghi brillanti e divertenti e gli attori (soprattutto Jeff Bridges mentre Damon sembra più una figurina) e anche l’intreccio che pone come protagonista una ragazzina nel mondo western è decisamente interessante.
Quello che manca è una certa inventiva sulla storia e sul genere che ha caratterizzato la carriera dei due fratelli registi. Non avviene quello che è accaduto invece per “Non is a country for old men: evolution of a genre that became "new-western", this film is a western-western.
The film deals with the issue, already esploratissimo, revenge and has the great merit of doing so without rhetoric (despite those who seek revenge will be little more than a child). The journey of revenge of the little girl becomes a journey of formation and growth in a way different from what is usually understood these two words. The girl will understand what the courage, strength, loyalty, honor, revenge and friendship. As the film introduces the facts, the narrative voice of that little girl become a woman, and it's like if you remember when you become a woman.
Overall a good movie, enjoyable, sometimes funny, not a job so experimental and innovative as we have been accustomed from other films of the Coen brothers. GS
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