hard to imagine a movie about Osama Bin Laden. Not required, is made, and saw. Since the beginning of this story, guess or not the end, the premiere had all the sponsored's own blockbuster, box office guaranteed promise. For starters, a kill shot surprise, perfect (or that they had sent to do), followed by suspense, special effects, extras (perhaps an excess of extras). Soundtrack of Stockhausen himself, a folly, but not negligible publicist good for the European market ("It's the greatest work of art ever made: the fact that beings are prepared like mad for a single act for years and run once and die in the execution makes it the greatest work of art ever made. ") The movie also casting. "Geronimo" to more exotic than Harry Belafonte and Omar Sharif in his youth. "Jr." and Condoleezza, Obama and Hillary (it all a diva: "It was the most intense 38 minutes of my life"), a black and white balance politically most correct in the cast, almost as if to suggest that the former requirement was for racist and now repentant Screen Actors Guild, a penalty, yes, Ronald, Hollywood union president, could not be for the gala.
Remarkable also nods to previous productions, as if they had looted and rewind all they found in the film archive: the King Kong version 1933 with this special cameo by the then building "top" (pseudo Empire State), the bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion and Italian Legionary Aviation in 1937, Picasso's Guernica two months later, the Orson Welles radio broadcast announcing the arrival of extraterrestrials in New Jersey 38, the Blitz London the year 40, Dresden-Tokyo-Hiroshima-Nagasaki 45, Hanoi and Haiphong in the Christmas of 72, Santiago de Chile that other Tuesday 9-11, Beirut, Sarajevo, Kabul ... Déjà vus for all tastes, a sure blockbuster. Best Villain, Best Cinematography, Best Editing ... unsurpassed production.
But, curious, but not a real movie. Shoot Osama is like shooting the fall of the Roman Empire or Proust, or in Agora Amenábar, nor Raul Ruiz in Le temps retrouvé , they succeed. It is a world, a formidable collective psychosis should be recorded, and even the giant and "real time" of our it can display. Corey Robin recalls the effect that Osama introduced: "The rich, who spend agonizing hours deciding which combine with Moen faucet copper sink in the kitchen of his cottage suddenly worried that the water coming out of the pipes was poisoned. People at Bloomingdales crave a Prada bag, suddenly startled forgotten a bag at the airport "( Fear. History of a political idea , Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica , 2009).
How Claudio Magris represent what they called "absolute evil"? Evil capitalized with us, he says, "has a seductive vulgar, like a soap opera in Technicolor." Faced with such horror, our "literature" today, unlike the classics of old, "no blood left to run, but tomato juice under the ostentatious killing merely profess good intentions." Bin Laden died on television.
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