What makes ‘one battle after another’ one of the best movies of the year

In the stronghold of film lovers, the director Paul Thomas Anderson It’s an untouchable entity – and your new movie, One battle after anotherin theaters, reinforced this fame. The American, author of pearls like Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Black blood (2007) e The master (2012), has the habit of making long films, which travel between drama and satire, portraying complex family dilemmas, exaggerated ambitions, religious and political clashes, and the peculiarities of “american way of life“The American lifestyle. The formula is not easy – but made by him with exquisite – it has come to a new level in the overproduction that brings Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benício del Toro in the cast.

Bob, DiCaprio’s role, is a somewhat chapenga left revolutionary who takes off from the armed struggle to hide with his daughter. Sixteen years later, he is still persecuted by Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, lived by Sean Penn, a white supremacist, avid minority persecutor, who longs to be accepted in an exclusive club of powerful – and Nazi men. From opposite sides and extremes of the political spectrum, they have in common the passion for the same woman (Teyana Taylor) – and the doubt about who is her daughter’s father.

The plot more than current began to be thought of by PTA (Anderson’s nickname) twenty years ago, now finding fertile and volatile ground for his debut. With an estimated budget of $ 130 million, the film was regarded as a risk to Warner Bros., the studio responsible for the release. But as soon as the first criticisms came out, the company’s expectation improved: very praised, One battle after another It has been acclaimed as the movie of the year – and a strong competitor to the Oscar.

If this heat around the movie will last until the award is unknown, however, it has actually dug a place among the best of the year. With 2h50m long, the feature has a frantic pace, creative action scenes, impeccable script and hypnotizing performances. By placing the extremes meeting halfway – with a teenager as a meeting point – Anderson reinforces the direct message that his huge and cleared productions in the background want to pass: One battle after another He talks about a family – and what happens to her when external actions interfere with relationships. A good reflection for the current era of extreme and designed in entertainment form for anyone to put defect – neither right nor left.