Review of 22 July (2018) by Jluis_001 — 11 Oct 2018

''He's kinda right though, isn't? The way the country is going. Is not like it used to be''.

"We are here to give meaning and soul to a European dream that the European bureaucrats have emptied, the saviors of Europe are here.".

Matteo Salvini - Current Interior Minister and Vice President of the Italian Government.

This was said few days ago by this man along with Marine Le Pen the former candidate for the presidency of France who lost to Emmanuel Macron in the last French presidential election and she said: ''We will see a different Europe emerging''.

This terrorist attack occurred in 2011, way before Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Savini in Italy, Viktor Orbán in Hungary and even now Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. It's happening in Austria, Poland, even in Germany itself. This far-right movement is growing in Europe in a very fasy way and what was once a hate speech and evidently the flag with which this terrorist attacked. Today is an extremely alive political ideology.

Ironically these people have power and worse still there are people who put them in power. The enablers, perhaps the worst among all.

The message of the far right in Europe is to protect their ''culture'' to avoid immigration and above all to ban everything that has to do with Islam. Their rhetoric is fear and division, that's what they sell and that's what their followers buy.

Their rhetoric is racist and although some still try to hide it, we all know it.

22 July is a film that in the current political climate of the world puts certain things in perspective. The new cinematographic work of Paul Greengrass uses a very different approach to the recent U – July 22, which deals with the same terrorist attack.

U – July 22 was a story of horror and survival centered on the young people who were attacked in the camp. 22 July is about the attacks and the aftermath. The post-traumatic journey of a survivor. The events that occurred with the perpetrator; Anders Behring Breivik after the attack and the struggles of his lawyer to mount his defense and the repercussions he suffered in his private life.

It's true that this is a work of fiction based on a real life event but after all this is a recreation, not a documentary. The important thing is not so much the events that occurred but their teaching.

I didn't like a certain part of the narrative and its rhythm. I think the duration is excessive and the performance of Anders Danielsen Lie as Behring Breivik feels too much like a cartoon villain who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. I cannot argue that I know in any way how the guy behaved in his interrogations or with his lawyer but at all times he gave me that impression.

22 July is another nice surprise from Netflix who in my opinion over the last two weeks released three good films in line for their catalog and considering all the trash they had been producing lately, this is undoubtedly appreciated.