Oschaled Director Alejandro Amenabar The premiere of his new movie in cinemas, The captiveThe field again, the director turns to one of the great figures in the history of Spain, in this case Miguel de CervantesThe film is exploring the author of the author of the best novel of all time, Don Quixote from La ManchaThe field and he does it deepening one of the stages of his most convulsive life, his captivity in Algeria.
The captive Young soldier was installed in 1575 Miguel de Cervantes He was captured in the open sea by Arab carpets and delivered to Algeria as a hostage. Realizes that there is a cruel death if your family does not pay you in the near future, Miguel You will find asylum in your passion for telling stories. Their exciting stories return the hope of their prison satellites and will ultimately attract attention HassanThe mysterious and afraid of the low level of Algeria, with which he begins to develop a strange closeness. While conflicts are growing among their peers, MiguelThe unshakable optimism carrying it, he will begin to develop a risky leak plan.
The captive
Alejandro Amenabar covers hypotheses, which indicate that Miguel de Cervantes was a homosexual to explore the love story between the novelist and his abductor in Algeria. The controversial approach for many aspects to which the problem is added, the story itself is much more heartless and boring than promised. Although he has very wonderful aspects (production itself, Hulio stump is like Cervantes …), the global result is not satisfactory.
A lot of packaging for small content
There is something in The captive This is clear from the first moment. This is a great educational film. And this is that his situation, his production design, scripts, clothes … Everything is careful in details to offer a feeling of complete immersion. And first he gets it. In myth about Miguel de CervantesThe film from the first moment attracts attention to bake yourself in this peculiar prison of Algeria.
Nevertheless, with the passage of minutes, we gradually understand that this beautiful packaging only hides a rather simplified story. The plot continuously repeats the same scenes and structures that it can impress for the first time, but it becomes a little tiring a little. Cervantes Talking the story, passing with a low, planning an escape plan with your classmates … stretching for more than two hours, these three or four schemes make the tape for too long for what you should say. The same thing happened, for example, in the series LuckField
Amenabar is lost in a bad script
Actually big problem The captive This is that, being so long, very bad from ambitions and magic. Although the story is generally attractive as a prerequisite, after entering it, there are hardly any particularly memorable moments. Of course, the best happens for the first time that Cervantes Start with one of your stories to entertain the rest of the prisoners. But then this feeling of an important shortage of spark, hook, a capture place, which forces it to operate and exceed, as happened in While the war lastsFor example.
Moreover, the script directly plays against this with completely artificial situations and in general organic. This is a case of incessant winking QuijoteThe first field can have fun and even be interesting to assume that inspiration for the greatest stories began there. But when they begin the chain without stopping (Mills, Bakis, a man named Alonso …), everything becomes so obvious that he is tired. By far from conveying this sense of grandeur, legends, it remains in a bad joke, which makes less grace, the more this is explained.
To top it off, there are some sequences that are not worthy of the director of the trajectory Alejandro AmenabarBut rather, a beginner of a student of an audiovisual career. When we find the first spell of Algeria, The captive Includes a scene in the style of video clip, in which Cervantes Walking is struck by it in streets, with microgams or moments of exotic under the Arabic song. The resource is so simple that it completely destroys the suspension of unbelief and draws from the film.
Very controversial love story
Despite all of the above, which will actually talk about The captive This is from his romantic plot. Amenabar It was opened in real hypotheses (albeit without confirmation) of some studies, which suggest that Cervantes It was homosexuals. There is nothing there that could ratify or refute it as such, so this is a completely true vision in the feature film, it would be more. As much as certain sectors are mixed. If we want realism, we better see a documentary. But the fact that it does not have so much ethical justification is that under this approach is trying to blur what is clearly a violation and abuse of power.
Homosexual relations between Cervantes And low becomes the center of history The captiveField and Amenabar He wants to use it, playing with uncertainty in how much of this is love or real desire and how much the writer’s pure survival costs. This leads us to the problem. At that time it is HassanFrom a clear position of superiority (literally in his hand – life or death of Cervantes) the one that brings the reins of government and is used, there can be no real relationship. This abuse, how much Amenabar Try to mask it with beautiful and leading scenes.
As a result, The captive This is a film with which Amenabar He returns to some sins of his past. The narrative is more inconsistent than his premise promised. And even the myth about Miguel de Cervantes As a historical figure, she manages to raise the right film, but there is so much spark in it. Everything is too mechanically, repeats and does not have magic. If, to top it off, the focus of your romance is not even maintained morally, and although the film has successes, the result is a disappointment.
Source: Hiper Textual
