"Casting an eye on cinema from the 1950s gives us a fascinating glimpse of how society interpreted people's worries through the medium of film There's an explosive opening to One Battle After Another when a gang of daring revolutionaries liberate incarcerated immigrants from a grim detention centre outside San Diego. It's a thrilling start to this action movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's acclaimed novel Vineland, published 35 years ago."
"There's an explosive opening to One Battle After Another when a gang of daring revolutionaries liberate incarcerated immigrants from a grim detention centre outside San Diego. It's a thrilling start to this action movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's acclaimed novel Vineland, published 35 years ago. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, the brilliantly-named Chase Infiniti as his daughter, and Sean Penn, who's in irresistible, Oscar-winning form."
Cinema from the 1950s reveals societal anxieties through film images and narratives. One Battle After Another opens explosively with a gang of revolutionaries liberating incarcerated immigrants from a grim detention centre outside San Diego. The opening establishes a thrilling, action-driven tone. The film is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, published thirty-five years earlier. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti as his daughter, and Sean Penn in an irresistible, Oscar-winning performance. The combination of political action and star power foregrounds themes of liberation, authority, and personal drama.
Read at Independent
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]