Gun City (2018)
6/10
COMPLEX SCRIPT, GOOD DIRECTION N EXCELENT FOTOGRAPHY
2 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
With original title "LA SOMBRA DE LA LEY" it deals with a coup d'état, in a probable civil war between anarchist revolutionaries fighting for rights, barons , police and state ( yes here it seems that the police objective is different from the state intention ) in the midst of this chaos, in addition to two revolutionary fronts, one pacified using only the strike instrument and the other with military weapons stolen in a train robbery, we see that the latter is being used precisely for a coup d'état to occur even if several deaths happen.

This summary of the film summary that still has an ANÍBAL undercover agent ( Luiz Tosar ) who infiltrates the police by the state, does service for barons and also defends revolutionaries. Here we see that everything was messy and a little complex with a very complex script too.

Good performances by Michelle Jemmer like SARA and other medians. Little cliché trail but it works, downloading the tempo with lyrical trail leaving an epic touching scene, or in action with high and accelerated beats.

We have several sequel plans in the film, very good by the way, the first time at EDEN, the fight inside the car with a gun in the middle where the subjective camera circulates in 360 the action until one shot and another in the middle of a great struggle of the revolutionaries, even though they know that cuts happen when there are horse passes or people on the foreground, they are not noticed and work very well. Well chosen plans with a lot of depth But for me the highlight of the film is the photography, sensational magnificent lights with a lot of contrast in the windows, when natural light, filmed at Golden hour, and the lights in the rains are also very beautiful.

We were not able to get too attached to Hannibal speaks little and is an unknown but Sara and we see that the revolution ( from the point of view of the film ) was used to chaos just happens.

A great film for a complex script that is difficult to understand with good direction and excellent photography.
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