{"id":7456,"date":"2011-02-16T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2016-05-09T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:02:52","slug":"sex-drugs-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/sex-drugs-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Drugs, Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Biutiful<\/em>\u00a0is the latest film directed by Mexican-born director Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. After the success of\u00a0<em>Amores Perros, Babel<\/em>\u00a0and 21\u00a0<em>Grams<\/em>, he delivers a tale that vividly depicts human misery. After watching Biutiful and taking time to digest the images and reorganize the emotions, only the feeling of pain is left.<\/p>\n<p>The film portrays the life of Uxbal\u2014played by Academy Award winning Spanish actor, Javier Bardem\u2014a man who roams the streets of Barcelona carrying a backpack full of suffering. He makes a living by being part of the vicious cycle that immigrants live through in this part of the world. Uxbal\u2019s life is surrounded by death; this idea prevails throughout the film. With the impossibly tragic lifestyle he leads and deadly circumstances he faces, Uxbal struggles to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>The director makes a point of focusing on all of the disgusting and macabre aspects of reality. The hellish setting\u2014in this case Barcelona\u2014is a filthy and corrupt place that serves as an abyss for all of the characters. They appear to deteriorate as the film progresses, as hope seems to get lost in between the grief.<\/p>\n<p>A positive aspect of the film is Bardem\u2019s brilliant portrayal of Uxbal. He truly transforms into a tragic man who struggles between the duality of the destructive results of his actions and his kindhearted essence. Despite the fact that the camera is almost always in Bardem\u2019s face, the supporting cast truly embraces the film\u2019s harshness.<\/p>\n<p>The audience is attacked with explicit images, which can be hard to assimilate. At times, the director goes beyond the limits of crude reality and presents scenes that evoke disgust, even sickness.<\/p>\n<p>He does however, challenge the audience\u2019s emotions toward a bigger purpose. By showing the absolute worst reality possible, the few hints of innocence and beauty that stand out demonstrate the hope and virtue that defeats calamity.<\/p>\n<p>At the end,\u00a0<em>Biutiful<\/em>\u00a0is everything except beautiful. It evokes all those feelings that we choose to leave in the margins of our days. Perhaps it\u2019s not a pleasant movie to the senses, but it is one we should all watch. Something has to remind us of reality, point out the injustices of the world and present the grand miracle of being alive. Isn\u2019t that exactly what the art of film-making is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biutiful\u00a0is the latest film directed by Mexican-born director Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. After the success of\u00a0Amores Perros, Babel\u00a0and 21\u00a0Grams, he delivers a tale that vividly depicts human misery. After watching Biutiful and taking time to digest the images and reorganize the emotions, only the feeling of pain is left. 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