Screen-a-Week: "Sleeping"

Today in the "Kino" section a new section "Screen-a-Week" opens. With the help of one frame from the film you can tell a lot. Without spoilers (albeit to spoilers, you can treat it calmly), but so that it becomes clear whether to watch a movie or not. The films will be different - old and new, famous and those that are difficult to find. Not necessarily "masterpieces", but always interesting films.

The first screen is the initial frame from the film "Sleeping" Barry Levinson :

1. The film "Sleepers" was shot in 1996, Barry Levinson. Before that, he removed the “Rain Man”, for which Oscar received. And in that and in another film, Dustin Hoffman plays. In Sleeping, he is a lawyer.

2. Brad Renfro and Jonathan Tucker play young Michael Sullivan and Tommy Markano. And adults are played by Brad Pitt and Billy Kradap.

3. Jeffrey Wigdor and Joseph Perrino - young John Rilly and Lorenzo Karamaterro.

4. The icon, on the neck of Lorenzo "shakes" of the frame. The boys in the film are very religious. In general, in the area of ​​Manhattan Hell's Kitchen, the influence of the Church is very great. The best friend and teacher of these four are Bobby priest. He is played by Robert de Niro. He reads sermons while playing basketball.

5. The house on the roof of which they sunbathe is located in the Hell's Kitchen. Although this is the criminal part of the city, boys feel safe. “The hellish cuisine was an island of simple -mindedness, where the vice ruled” - no one arranged a showdown in their area, and the children were protected.

6. Comic "Count Monte Cristo." This is a favorite comic book, and later the storyteller’s book. When he and his friends are stupidly in a colony for minors, only this book will help him survive.

7. Happiness in the first frames of the film will be replaced by terrible trials that will make two bandits.

8. Violence. In the first frames, the viewer sees four pure and happy boys. The director prepares us for the violence that they will experience in the colony.

9. The name "Sleepers" has several values. But in this frame - literal.

10. On the street below, hot dogs are sold. The event that will change the life of four friends is associated with the seller of the hot dogs.