Live and die in Hamburg – RTP

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It was the final film of an actor of genius, Philip Seymour Hoffman – “The Most Wanted Man”, directed by Anton Corbijn, is there, portraying the labyrinths of espionage from a novel by John le Carré.

Willem Dafoe and Philip Seymour Hoffman: facts and puzzles espionage post-September 11

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The Most Wanted Man When an immigrant, half-Chechen, half Russian, appears in a Muslim community in Hamburg brutally tortured, claiming the fortune of his father, captures the interest of the German and American security agencies: as time passes and the stop climbs, the race to discover the true identity of the most wanted man begins – oppressed or extremist destructive victim?

 I do not think it’s possible to see a movie like “The Most Wanted Man” without feeling a void disturbing – we know, after all, that its protagonist, Philip Seymour Hoffman, died a few months after its tread (the February 2, 2014 , had 46 years), victim of a overdose .
 
 

 Notice is: it is not seeking “equivalence” between the lived life and the life represented – they intersect inevitably – but to recognize a terrible anyway rewarding power that cinema can involve. It is the power to enhance their own lives, to the point of a movie is a territory won the death space.
 

 
 

 Incidentally, the character Hoffman, Günther Bachmann – an element of the intelligence services of Germany grappling with the investigation of a suspect from the Arab world – is someone who exists, so to speak, as a survivor of a time other , in which the secrets of nations did not involve the central trauma of modern espionage. Namely: the legacy of September 11.
 

 
 

Respecting entire logic of the John le Carré novel that inspired it, “The Most Wanted Man” revisits this inheritance from a very real place: the city of Hamburg. It was there that Mohamed Atta planned the attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Centre in New York, and the secret service live, naturally, obsessed by the need to not let repeat any similar situation – is a desire of all life haunted moments the marks of death.

 
 

Confirming the uniqueness of director Anton Corbijn’s path – he started with “Control” (2007), about Ian Curtis and Joy Division, after directing the thriller “The American” (2010), with George Clooney – “The Most Wanted Man” is, after all, one to the tradition of the great mazes of espionage return, still and always supported by an unusual cast including Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe and Nina Hoss. In a summer of so much “explosive”, this is a banality of the most politically subtle films – and also more emotionally intense.

     

Criticism of John Lopes

published 23:48 – August 7 ’14

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