If anyone doubts the importance of Netflix as a platform for audiovisual content, beyond the fact that the consumption revolution in streaming belongs to him, perhaps he should reconsider the number of his viewers, the nominations and awards he has achieved, and his own series, which have become a cultural phenomenon. how fascinating Dark (2017-2020) or weird thingscreated by the Duffer Brothers (since 2016), the fourth batch of episodes of which will premiere in a few days.
The first thing we can confirm about Millie Bobby Brown & Company’s new Eleven adventures in the fictional city of Hawkins and beyond is that Natalia Dyer, who plays Nancy Wheeler, wasn’t lying when she told us in Madrid what was coming. is “the darkest and scariest season”. In fact, the opening bars of The Hellfire Club (4×01) go from detailed and disturbing composition to undisputed bet on horror in weird things. No half measures.
Horror flaring up on various occasions, with a clear film flavor A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) or novel Thing (1986); and this serves to bring the chapters to a climax. Thus, and thanks to the very attractive beginning of each of them, there is no doubt that the Duffer Brothers intend to encourage that we don’t move from our seats until the seven that make up the first volume of the season are finished. And, oh, they get it on the basis of goodness.
Clarity of those responsible for Stranger Things
A terrible secret about weird things it unfolds little by little as our young heroes investigate; in a purely eightieth dynamic, spiced with the use of preconceived arguments typical of that time and other social issues that are not considered with determination today, no matter what they say, to add objectivity and greater depth to the dispute. And we can’t forget sequence of actions with reward.
The ingenuity of the director is tested, first of all, in his visual plans. And out weird things continues to make it clear that, in addition to the huge funds that Netflix has, they are provided here the talented minds of the Duffer brothersagain accompanied by Sean Levy, director there you stay (2014) or freeguy (2021) and Nimrod Antal, responsible for, for example, predators (2010) and various episodes servant (since 2019).
Apart from some energetic sequence shots, they offer us other attractive spinning or aerial shots, episodic, escorted transitions and alternating montages, quite eloquently and in complex and exciting parallelism. And Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s collaborative soundtrack, still a little generous on the bounty, judiciously uses certain plot ingredients for its music, necessary to maintain disturbing atmosphere from weird things.
Heart in a fist
It’s certainly nice to meet Eleven Millie Bobby Brown again, David Harbor’s Jim Hopper and other recurring characters from weird things. But it is worth noting the pleasure that gives us the bad saliva of Erica Sinclair performed by Priya Ferguson; and, above all, the inclusion charismatic Eddie Munsonplayed by Joseph Quinn, who we’ve already seen as Coner in Game of Thrones (2011-2019) or Grunauer Lord (2018).
The proof that the Duffer Brothers and the actors did a good job is how much the demons they summon affect us with some brand new villains together Carrie (1974) so recognizable by many people who have suffered the same, conveying the rage for which we really want the satisfaction of an exorcism so that they get what they deserve. Because cinematic narrative also uses base feelings in its experiences.
On the other hand, in this fourth season weird things we face clear echoes Silence of the Lambs (1991) and his images; and unexpected twists that still turn what could have been simple and easy into development much more interestingand other different, complicating the situation, already disturbing in themselves, emphasizing the drama and then propitiating amazing sequences of pure flour that put the gonad tie on us.
To keep your eyes on the screen
Humor flies low and short distances; without any inconsistency in the personality of characters such as Gaten Matarazzo’s beloved Justin Henderson, Maya Hawke’s Robin Buckley or Brett Gelman’s Murray Bauman, who usually give us this by the handful, and Steve Harrington’s certain interactions with Joe Keery. But we do not lose sight of the fact that they do not skimp on this, because intrigue designed by the Duffer Brothers absorbent.
Especially due to the fact that they decided to diversify the tricks of the story weird things, and disperse the already large Eleven Millie Bobby Brown group by offering some tessitura. And with this decision they endow him more opportunities for suspense, the dangers of the supernatural or the human adventure itself, the amazement at the unknown, its surprises, horrors and atrocities. And with these impressive incentives, we can’t even imagine what they have in store for us in July for the final fireworks.
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