Touch review

Every morning Christopher He wakes up at 5:30, and to keep his mind trained and to fight off the dementia that has not yet become aggressive, he reads his health insurance number, the menu from his fish restaurant, and a Japanese haiku poem. The latter, a three-line poem, is not a Proustian madeleine. touchWhy Christopher He had been thinking about his first great love for a long time. MikoWhom he met as a young anti-capitalist, after leaving the London School of Economics in the summer of 1969, he realized that the only way to stay close to the proletariat was to get his hands dirty with menial work. These were the years of hippie culture, the days of sleepovers for peace. John Lennon And Yoko OnoShe is Japanese and he is European like her. Miko And Christopherwhich to the former the Beatles The lady criticized the choice of the presidential suite as a venue for protesting the Vietnam War.

But let’s get back to Christopher Old people say that the story of a man who, at the end of his life, sets out on a journey to reconcile with a place or a loved one is not entirely original, and in fact at least 5 or 6 titles come to mind, first and foremost True story to David LynchBut in the end what does it matter? Isn’t it true that everything has already been said and that as time goes by we think more and more about our youth? Have you noticed that once we are past the middle of our life’s journey, the years begin to rush by, and the fear of death and the need to close accounts with the past begin to appear? The passage of time is undoubtedly one of the important themes in the book. touchAnd Balthasar Kormákur He deals with it with a gentleness and tenderness that runs throughout the entire film, as if the director decided to take the viewer by the hand and make him think with him about something we don’t want to think about.

But the great deleted one is the closest to his heart Balthasar It’s World War II, but we’ll talk about that soon. UnlikeTwo thousand straight Lenciano or the character he plays Timothy Spall in Appointment at the end of the earthFocus on touch It’s not quite the risky journey. Christopher Old but has a past in restaurant kitchens Takashi-san, who is not only the father Miko But also the guardian of a culture in which ancestral traditions coexist with modernity and in which respect and education are practiced in the name of family and social harmony.
However in pursuit Christopher Meanwhile, there is an obstacle: the Covid-19 pandemic. Our hero leaves Reykjavik on the eve of the lockdown, and his journey from Iceland to Hiroshima takes on a surreal connotation, behind which lies the collective desire (another!) to forget the dark times that all of humanity still has to “work through”. However, the film’s protagonist does not feel the anxiety of someone who no longer has fixed points and is therefore searching for meaning. No, Christopher (Egil Olafsson) He is a determined man who has lived a happy life with his wife and daughter, and he simply wants an alternative ending. Now, this ending contains the revelation of the mystery, the solution to the mystery, and that is what makes touch The story of the mission, and thus Cormacor to Everst top It’s not that far off. Sure, the director has us used to action and adrenaline, but the love, romance and less frenetic pace of the story have their roots in his youthful passion for theatrical productions. Shakespeare, Ibsen And ChekhovIn the same way as these tutelary deities of world drama, Balthasar Kormákur As mentioned earlier, he does not ignore history and its dramatic consequences, choosing to focus on the aftermath of the tragedy rather than the tragedy itself. In the year of the Oscar victory OppenheimerIcelandic director -look at that- shows us the other side of the invention of the atomic bomb.

We are not that far off, not in style but in content. Hiroshima my love, But if it is good Balthasar He goes back to World War II and one of its most absurd chapters, because, as a man who lived through the Cold War years, he feels that the atmosphere in our miserable world is very similar to that of the first half of 2016. The forties. Even here it is. touchDespite its praise for slowness, it becomes a film born of urgency, of a desire for something. Mori memento Anything but assumption and education.

Self Egil Olafsson It’s a great old version of ChristopherEven his younger self is convincing. He impersonates her. Palmy Cormacor, son With you He is a tall boy with a gentle air and a delicate appearance. His youth Christopher He is silent and thoughtful, and therefore has nothing to do with the majority of the protagonists of many romantic films: he plays on the sidelines and realizes how much happiness lies in the little things, like a well-cooked breakfast. Precisely because the character is not a Don GiovanniThe pace of the film reflects the quiet and deep love between him and Mikowhich is instead strong and rebellious like some of the cool girls of the 70s.

It’s not a perfect movie. touchinspired by the novel Olaf OlafssonBecause every now and then it gets lost and goes away, but the phrase “Make love, don’t make war” gets through anyway, actually gets through more than if it were shouted arrogantly, because when violence enters into an intimate story, the explosion is still there, but it’s silent, and in our case the silence says more than a thousand words. After all, the implosion is certainly worse than the explosion.