El cielo rojo (2008)
08 Aug 2008 • Comedy, Drama • 1h 22m
The movie "The Red Sky" is a great movie to watch if you're Costa Rican. It is an independent movie, created in Costa Rica by Miguel Gomez. The movie is the common life of four friends, and their decisions through their teenage years. I saw the movie and my opinion toward it is more accurate because I live in the same country where the movie takes place making it easier for me to give an opinion on it. I can reflect about my own life towards the movie, since I have the same age. It is easier for me to also refer to the language, since I live among people who speak like most of the time. This movie is directed to a lower amount of people because your required to understand very different words which are only from Costa Rica. It's hard to understand Costa Rican slang, but once you already know it, it's easy to understand.The story takes place in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is in modern times, (beginning of XX Century) and it's in the central city. One of the characters owns a car and he takes us to see some parts of Costa Rica, including the beach. The actors are Allen Obando, Mauricio Dapena, Ricardo Rodriguez, Edgar Roman. These are the four students who just graduated and are deciding what they are going to do with their lives. It is very hard for one of them, to decide what he is going to study, with the pressure of his friends and family he has to decide. A problem also occurs Ana(represented by Silvia Campos), this was the violation of the girl. Generally the film just wants to depict the normal life of a group of teenagers, taking them through a journey of adventures, jealousness and anger. At the same time showing a Costa Rican beach and showing some parts of the city, roads. It also shows the common "huecos" (which are holes in the road) which Costa Rica has in abundance.Mauricio Dapena had a lack of action at the beginning. He needed more inspiration to fulfill his roll, I saw how sometimes he forced the scenes and strived to do a better job but failed at it. An example of this would be the representation of Nestor. Nestor was the drug user in the movie, but he did not fill his roll completely, it seemed as if he wasn't using drugs. Generally the role was very good, and for some of them never acting makes them even more special. This makes them more special because they do not force their act, they do it more naturally. One of the actors was also only familiar to theater, making that transition is hard. The characters were very well represented by the majority. But it still lacked a little more professionalism in order to achieve a higher level off representation.The movie was full of comedy, and scenes that depicted daily life. The scene I liked the most, and that included a very funny aspect of Costa Rica, is when they become super heroes. Every child in Costa Rica always dreams with being a superhero such a Superman. They used cheap editing for the Superman scene, but in the end, the way they did it made it funny, since they showed it in a different more human way. They were saving Costa Rican civilians and covering holes in the street. I also liked and recommend people to watch it because of how the engaged the problems. How they used a more informal script, using slang language in order to make it more of a comedy and to make people see how they talk. We can also identify with the movie language. It is hard to pick a favorite scene of the movie, since movies are full of different scenes. To pick the best scene would be to pick a scene that represents the movie, that you can capture the essence of the movie in that scene. The scene I would pick would be the superman scene, since it includes the comedy of the movie.I learnt that everything will settle down by its own means. It's not good to pressure everything and to get stressed by what you're going to study. Sooner or later, it will come to you and it is best when it's that way, since you can choose something fast but at the end you do not like it leading to a waste of more time. Problems are less significant and less important than what they appear to be, but we make them a lot bigger. Learning from comedy movies is hard, some of them are only for the purpose of laughing and transmit no message.I would recommend the movie to teenagers over thirteen, since I think the movie is PG-13. Adults will also have a feeling of the past with the movie, and remember their teenage years. I would not recommend it to anyone who is not Costa Rican or children under 13. It is a harsh film, in some parts, in this parts it some scenes and language that for kids is inappropriate. It showed the slang of Costa Rica and settings such as the beach and city. This movie is not rated by the MPAA, from there you can see it is not very known outside of Costa Rica. From the beginning you can start to identify. In case of teenagers there is a character with different personalities, each involving real life personalities some teenagers have. Overall the movie is eloquent and realistic involving real life issues. This makes it a serious movie, which many people of Costa Rica should watch even though it has comedy some may not like. I would rate the movie with a 3 out of 5 stars due to its lack of more editing and sound effects. It also had very good script that's why the rating is a 3.
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