Film Snow Community (still in theaters and starting on Netflix Thursday) is about a band. A group of people who board a plane for one purpose (to play a rugby tournament) and encounter something very different (followed by an accident where they have to bury the dead and survive in the Andes surrounded by snow and silence). and what does Juan Antonio Bayona With this band, without cheap effects or fake emotions, it’s magic. Potagia magic, because it puts you in the fuselage of the plane from minute one and you don’t leave until the end of two hours and twenty. You just watched the movie and left the theater with your fingers and toes numb from the cold and your head aching from the height of that endless mountain range.
It should not have been a coincidence that the group gathered on that plane were mostly members of the rugby team: since fifteen players must act at once, it is probably the most group-oriented team sport there is. time. In a rugby match (like in football) you can’t miss even ten minutes because that creates a gap in the whole team. Either all fifteen act, or there is no point at all. And in the event of the crash, there were sixteen remaining, and they formed a society – or rather, a cooperative of suffering – that made the impossible possible: seventy-one days without adequate clothing, without food, and surrounded by snow and mountains and mountains. dead comrades. Everything else can only be understood from the need and belief to create an interest group in order to survive the next day. Bayona does his best in this man who was born in Barcelona in 1975, but could have been born in Cincinnati, Los Angeles or Connecticut – and that’s a lot – and films the relationships this group has in a measured, exciting and unassuming way . The path of the sixteen, the problems that arise, the doubts that torment them. It also asks questions for those of us sitting on the couch, eating popcorn, drinking Coca-Cola (zero): What would you do? How would you act? What decisions would you make? How will you manage to survive when most are dying?
It also demonstrates two other things: the importance of positive leadership and the realization that sometimes a moment of madness is needed to achieve impossible things. Because when Nando Parrado decided to leave the camp and climb the mountain with his friend Roberto Canessa, he was in a state of madness, both without power and with almost no food, knowing that every step would lead them to death if they did not manage to find something. or someone nearby. There is a chilling shot when, after reaching the top of the first peak, weak and exhausted, Nando looks ahead and sees nothing but very high mountains full of snow, and he says to his friend, who looks at him in surprise: «Behind those little mountains of nothingness, behind them is the sea, Chile. I am sure”.
As a result, a group can do the best as well as the worst (La Manada was a group; ETA was a group; former Sálvame participants formed a group). The capacity of good groups to amplify good is equal to the power of bad groups to amplify evil. Fifty years ago in the Andes came expensive, and Bayona (Jota for friends) responded to all the members of this unprecedented adventure (living and dead) with a film that is equal parts pure cinema, affectionate and exciting. Nothing remains, not even a comma. Not even a little snow. Jota says he was born in Barcelona, ​​but I think he’s from Cincinnati or maybe Connecticut.
Source: Informacion
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