Title: The Secret Life of Bees
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Years
2009 Genre: Drama
has certainly not all the security of the world that the little Lily in 4 years shoot the mother by mistake and is forced to pass the following 10 years with a father who does not love her and never fails to point it out. So when the measure is full escapes and embarks on a journey in search of their roots (in the footsteps of a similar one made by the mother) together with her carer with their own color in the year of signing of the declaration of civil rights for African Americans. To receive her into a new bed three sisters will be familiar to those who produce honey, but Lily will learn that despite the well-being is one thing to sign a piece of paper is one thing to make it come true.
Funny how the first scene of The Secret Life of Bees is clearly identical to the opening of Mean Streets. It is the only point of contact between an independent film and disruptive as that of Scorsese and this soothing and reassuring that requires the viewer to teach his views in small pills of poetic wisdom put into the mouths of actors (for mostly farmers) and the many emotional blackmail. In this sense, it proves to be very honest the choice of a title (borrowed from the book which inspired) from the documentary school.
is the typical modus operandi by which America reflects its own history and handed down to the cinema. Not from the standpoint of its operation (or that of his reading as we usually do we) but the sentimental point of view. The subject of the film are not the facts that led to the signing of the Declaration nor the civil rights battles of African Americans (there is some reference to pop up to frame the question) but what it meant everything emotionally.
To achieve this the director Gina Prince-Bythewood choose a star cast of color (mostly singers) and relies only on it. All that the film aims to communicate through the actors, there are no other solutions for a director POSSIBLE totally anesthetized slumber on their faces. Good thing to write a scrap of credibility to everything there is Dakota Fanning, who at 14 years is one of the most extraordinary dramatic faces that can be considered today.
Everything in the film meets the viewer to confirm what he already thinks and strengthen their ideas. The casting (the matron in the flesh, the beautiful young activist and her sister a bit weak 'ugly but the big smile), characters (all one-way and no evolution), the plot (which comes up while all'implausibilità not surprising) and the feelings involved ("I Want To only to be loved by somebody! ").
The Hollywood reinterpretation of emotional history of the country is also a form of archetypal tale that has its fixed masks and The Secret Life of Bees it does not escape to reach a the target (a smile for every tear) in the most easy and safe. dilutes any unexpected conflict and softens even the most bitter and dramatic moments in time before announcing them to show them, so as to spoil the viewer while still reassuring sound of a simple smile and hold tears.
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