To him Director Justin, producing and produced by Jordan Pila, he noted. Not only because it is a bold combination of horrors and a sports drama. In addition, in order to add a mixture to such problems as racism, excessive fanaticism of American football on American land and even the exploitation of athletes. So, a film that had an intriguing trailer in August, month, This has become one of the most anticipated premieres of the autumn season in cinemas.
Only the film was a failure. At least for specialized criticism, which is already insisting, is one of the worst setting of the year. The proof of this is a disappointing 28 % of the positive criticism, which he received in the aggregator Rotten tomatoes, In which it is described as “crazy” and “absurd”. The public was not very friendly with the help of a tape that qualifies it only 58 % of a favorable review. To everything above, It would be necessary to add several 13 million at the box office, which reached both in North America and in the rest of the world.
The truth is that the tape, which approved Jordan saw and his support during the marketing campaign, became Hollywood laughter over the past weekend. In many ways, even for even Marlon Vyans, one of the main characters, he published a post in his Instagram account, which is faced with a membrane. In a long text, the actor recognizes very complex reviews, but invites the public to form his opinion. However, the scandal is around To him It seemed that it became more inconvenient with the passage of days.
A peculiar and dirty gender combination
To him He is trying, since he is the first minutes explore a difficult topic in North America. The controversial, and sometimes the cruel world of American football. For the country, this is not just a sport: it is a cultural element with the dyes of faith. Thus, the film says that devotion and fanaticism for the game become as intense as religious practice. Something, which includes, of course, the vices of any excess. A kind and tough prerequisite that without Nevertheless, the film develops with the depth that he could have.
Thus, the script assumes that fanaticism goes beyond the scope of entertainment and that players sacrifice themselves as modern martyrs. For this, the script follows Cameron Camera Kade (Tirik Whiters), a young man raised in a house where American football is almost a domestic religion. His family continues the devotion of San Antonio salvations and has a home space that works as an altar in honor of the team. Kam’s fate seems to be written since childhood: to become a sports star.
Of course, such an atmosphere can only worsen. And he does this in the most perverted, conceivable way. During the program, while Isaiah White (Marlon Weians) considered the best field marshal in history, he will receive a serious injury, Kam’s father (Don Benjamin) assures his son that he will once achieve this greatness. This moment marks the beginning of the pressure of the family and the symbolic weight that the young man will pull.
He shows – or tries – how this legacy is mixed with faith, admiration and constant demand. This is not a free choice, but the inheritance imposed, which determines everything that follows. Quickly, the director, who also writes the script, makes the triumph in a inherited obligation. Thus, the plot connects Kam’s personal desire with a collective mandate, Where his personality is diluted between the dreams of others and the echo of the success of others.
All problems in the argument “Him”
However, these critical outbreaks are almost not mentioned, and then remain in the air. To him It is located on a superficial level, creating obvious metaphors that never manage to expand. The message is clear: football can become a religion for some, but execution reduces it to comparison without nuances. It is interesting that this same ease shows which film could be: a more difficult story about the cult, violence of sports and about the place where it occupies in American collective identity. However, a limited vision is proposed, More focused on exciting images than on an honest analysis of the cultural obsession that he considers.
Especially when history enters its thick second section. Isaiah White, despite her serious accident, continues to dominate the field and build a myth around him. Kam grows, admiring and fearing this figure, trying to achieve the level that his father requires. Nevertheless, in the midst of intensive learning, the head injury threatens to put an end to your career before taking off. The film uses this moment to represent the physical fragility of the athlete, but does not stop in his real consequences. The medical diagnosis is stunning: the continuation of play can be fatal. Despite this, To him Ignore gravity And he concentrates on the idea that fate cannot break.
Of course, Kam represents thousands of young people who risk their health in order to fulfill a sports dream, but the film barely touches on this problem. The injury becomes a narrative obstacle, not a social comment. This decision limits what can be a rude portrait about the vulnerability of young athletes and culture, which requires them to sacrifice without measuring the consequences. Therefore, when Kam receives an invitation to train with Isaiah in his private complex, The film changes the tone to become a terrifying script.
A cheap cinema of horror in an ambitious premise
Thus, it seemed high -level learning, soon it is revealed as a strange space, loaded with rituals and religious symbols. Then Isaiah becomes a mentor and an executioner, demanding more and more extreme physical and mental trials. The dark atmosphere of this place enhances the idea that Cam is included in some sect, disguised as sports discipline. Stay in this line To him There may be problems such as manipulation, ideological processing or psychological violence. But choose symbolic scenes that are too obvious.
There are images that relate to Christian iconography, such as a cross, which CAM always leads to the neck or recreation of the last dinner at the session of the interview, but these links are so straight that they lose any subtlety. The film does not hide and does not play with the idea that Cam has entered a dangerous area, but the true stress is never generated, because everything is done in an excessive predictable. At this moment, To him It seems more interested Emphasizing his metaphor that when creating a convincing narrative that really catches.
Part of the responsibility is the scenario written four hands by overturning the Skip Bonki and Zach Akers. This is because the prerequisite launches several ideas that you never develop. Mysterious rites are mentioned without serious explanations, demonic images appear that are not worn anywhere and constantly say About the importance of the family for Cam, although we rarely see how he lives with them.
The end, nothing to say in the big disappointment of the year
Even the most obvious criticism – the victim of the body in the name of sports – is reduced to simplified phrases. Much worse, so trivial that the whole section Visual seems pretentious, in contrast to what the tape should take into account.
The last act, when history is uncontrolled, is not clearly understood, because the solid background was not built. Hence To him Leave in your way the feeling that fundamental works are not enough to understand what is happening, While Kam seems to have all the answers that the audience never receives.
This shutdown violates any possibility of satisfactory result. More than closing, what is obtained is visual and narrative chaos, which is trying to influence symbols, but not with the substance. A disorder without logic or meaning that turns the one that was supposed to be one of the great horrors of the year, into mediocre and empty work. The most unsuccessful point of production.
Source: Hiper Textual
