21 Grams (Collector's Edition)
by Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Carly Nahon, Danny Huston, Naomi Watts, Sean PennDirector: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Brand: NBC Universal
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Producer: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Editor: Stephen Mirrione
Producer: Guillermo Arriaga
Writer: Guillermo Arriaga
Producer: Robert Salerno
Producer: Ted Hope
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of 21 Grams (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Better Than Most People Think
Summary: 5 Stars
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's '21 Grams' I personally found to be an immensely satisfying experience. Much like Inarritu's `Amores Perros' (2001) and `Magnolia' (1999, Anderson) it's a tale of three lives brought together by an accident. However this time the story is told with a completely non-linear sense of structure that I found to be really refreshing. `Amores Perros' and `Magnolia' still had a sense of A - B - C - D in it's structure while jumping around between three stories whereas 21 Grams has an A - C - B -D (although more developed) structure while moving between it's three stories creating a unified mesh of their lives. Some things we only really find out towards the end but at no time did I find this confusing. This is important because were not actually watching three separate stories that have a link, as in `Amores Perros', but one and it's that which I felt I appreciated. By using this method Inarritu manages to create memories that are carried with the characters through the film instead of using a dreaded flashback sequences.
What really impressed me though was the acting. Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking; The Thin Red Line) is one of the few actors who has grown and matured to be a real force in modern cinema and delivers another great performance. Benicio del Toro (Traffic, Usual Suspects, Sin City) and Naomi Watts (Mullholland Drive) are both quite brilliant delivering impressive performances also. Cinematography was again by Rodrigo Prieto who recently photographed `Brokeback Mountain' (2005).
I personally found this film to be better than `Amores Perros' and I look forward to Inarritu's next film. If you like this then you may also enjoy director Wong-Kai Wai's films, which I believe to be greater. See `Chungking Express' (1994) and `In The Mood For Love' (2000) which I place in my top 100.
Summary of 21 Grams (Collector's Edition)
The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people - a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts) - collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller. Fate brought them together. Now vengeance will take them to the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption. Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts give the finest performances of their careers in the film that is "tantalizingly alive!" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Eddie Marsan, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston, Paul Calderon, Annie Corley, Denis O'Hare, John Rubinstein Directed by: Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituSean Penn and Benecio Del Toro, two of the most gripping actors around, play wildly different men linked through a grieving woman (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive, The Ring) in 21 Grams. Del Toro (Traffic, The Usual Suspects) delves deep into the role of an ex-con turned born-again Christian, a deeply conflicted man struggling to set right a terrible accident, even at the expense of his family. Penn (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking) captures a cynical, philandering professor in dire need of a heart transplant, which he gets from the death of Watts' husband. 21 Grams slips back in forth in time, creating an intricate emotional web out of the past and the present that slowly draws these three together; the result is remarkably fluid and compelling. The movie overreaches for metaphors towards the end, but that doesn't erase the power of the deeply felt performances. --Bret Fetzer
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