hypnosis review

Maybe I’m hopelessly a child of the nineties, but I have a soft spot for Robert Rodriguez. a vulnerable girl from movies like el mariachi, fearless And from dusk to dawnAnd that, in recent times, hasn’t been the only reason I think Alita – The Angel of Battle An overall underrated film.
Apparently part of my weakness lies in the fact that I’ve got this new one of his hypnotic – (fake) thriller with Nolanian ambitions that was presented Cannes 2023, Midnight Section – quite an interesting film, but not only, and not quite. and sure, there is ben affleckAnother character I’ve developed a singular fondness for, but in short, what matters is what counts.
hypnotic

it’s clearly not Rodriguez Did musicians, nor of their production for children, however anything but negligible. it’s not rodriguez’s machete nor does he alitanor does he sin city (A deputy who showed cinema a path that no one had the guts or the finesse to follow).
Then where does a film like Hypnotic come from?
Remaining within the filmography of the director from Austin, it would be necessary to mention faculty, late 90s sci-fi/horror. The film has nothing to do with it here in terms of plot, but it does reflect the productive spirit and industrial cinematic ideals with which it was made.

its hypersaturated colors like a Tony Scott Latest style, and photographed by myself Rodriguez (also writer, editor and producer), hypnotic is a film that seems to have awoken from a coma (or from an induced or self-induced amnesia, to stay close to the story it tells) that has kept it in the dark about the last two decades of cinema, and that proposes An approach to storytelling, history, images and even special effects that has a kind of distinctly vintage flavor, And he, above all, faces the challenge of the screen with an awareness and pride in what he is and wants to be: viz. A B-movie where it’s not the text or content that counts, but the entertainment,
For this reason – and not only for a short duration, an hour and a half that flows very fluidly – any comparison, even possible, with the cinema of mental architecture Christopher Nolan

Quoted, if not a little teased, then only at that moment Rodriguez Indulge in digital effects. Why If Nolan, legitimately, aims very high cinematographically and intellectually, and is very serious, Rodriguez is the complete opposite in this hypnotic take.

It matters so little that even the most trained eye can pick up on a lot in the first shots of a movie. Nor that there are plot holes and inconsistencies, and that some of Red Jacket is a little trickier.
What matters is the hypnotic fun, starting with the “spy” premise all the way to near uncontrollable paranormal phenomena, and in doing so, travels to Mexico and back, along with Affleck, and Ellis Braga, and William Fichtner, and everyone else. With, let’s have fun.
Even more so, in his description of the power of illusion, and with scenes – those in which we speak of the repetition of actions, or which show the illusion of reality as an actual film set – which perhaps manifests itself in a very clear way. do meta-nature, What matters is that Hypnotic is, in a way, also a film about cinema, and the power of… Hypnotic,
The power that makes you see something that isn’t there, believe the impossible, even though deep down you know it’s all a fantasy. The power that makes you say yes makes it all work, like a logically absurd movie you just watched. As hypnotic

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