Since I discovered art
My camera has become a real prison for me (c)
The literature is immortal. This is an indisputable fact. Literally every literary work can be projected to modern reality. The directors of Taviani filmed Julia Caesar, Shakespeare on harests with non -professional actors and a minimum budget.
The prisoners of the Rebibia prison are proposed to be a casting for the theater production. All people who have fallen in prison will be in prison until the end of their days. They are so penetrated by their roles that they begin to perceive their heroes as themselves.
Taviani put a picture that makes the audience think. The creators do not give answers, but scatter the clues for the attentive part of the public, which, if desired, can be unraveled.
The script of the directors is interesting to the idea, but its embodiment is far from the ideal. The brothers begin to ask questions, but as if they are scared and leave their undertakings halfway. But the finale, overturning to the audience, leaves no one indifferent and puts everything in its place.
Operator work is too invisible, the film itself is slow and inactive. The operators had to try to speed up the picture, and only were able to strengthen the effect of the “void” .
The choice of color is one of the best solutions to the creators of the picture. Colored scenes in the film shown only real life - either outside the scenes of the prison, or when the prisoners themselves feel alive.
Actors are the current power of the picture. Despite the lack of education, their desires and aspirations did their job. Heroes do not seem cardboard, but rather have the past, their own opinion about the present and the desire to live on.
The soundtrack adds a depth that is missing the film. Almost inexhaustible melodies are applied to long episodes, helping the audience empathize with the heroes of the picture.
“Caesar must die” - the picture is so thin that it is best to watch it in the original with subtitles in order not to miss a single emotion that are invested in their game and speech.
“The whole world is the theater, and the people in it are actors,” Shakespeare wrote. The Taviani brothers embodied this idea in the cinema. Despite the fact that the picture turned out to be somewhat monotonous and little emotional, their attempt can be considered very successful. |
