Review of Fences (2016) by David O — 28 Feb 2017

"Fences" is a completely passionate film, it is troubled, familiar, ruthless, romantic, charismatic and brutal, engraved 50% on the back of a house in an American suburb in the 50s it shows the story of Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) A 53-year-old father of a family who works as a garbage collector and fight to support his family, living at age 18 with his wife Rose (Viola Davis), he begins to face problems in his relationship and in his family.

It is an adjusted script, capable of having a 20 minute long scene between 3 characters sitting talking, the film is unique and exclusively dialogue, and best of all, this makes the film highly attractive, its 2 hours and little seemed 20 minutes To me, the script full of great dialogues added to stupendous performances make a movie that had everything to be dragged to have a spectacular rhythm.

We have a family history, with events that can happen in any family, it is beautiful to demonstrate the beauty of the causes in the family, yes, he is beautiful in demonstrating the problems, however incredible it may seem, the film does not have a great Moral, it just shows how love can be gross, that we do not choose who we love or how we love, but simply, we love.

We have a good picture, with an extremely gray color palette, a timid soundtrack - although the music is present in an extremely sentimental way in the film - a great set-up and camera angles that practically act as a character in the movie, between To the dialogues the camera splices against planes and planes sequences, it turns, turns, profiles and is even subjective when needed, the camera acts in history as mere viewers, and even when the camera stands still on the tripe, the characters move from one Side to side, as if they were in a theater, is very delicious.

In terms of acting, we have the best in film in 20I6, Denzel Washington is a completely incredible character, his acting is terrifying and at the same time completely emotional, he swallows the camera, steals the scene, it grows to such a point that we are without Reaction, we want to throw the popcorn off, sit glued to the screen, listen to its history and its lessons, learn about the cruelty of love, hate, love, fear and respect.

Viola Davis is also wonderful, she does not shed tears, she drool, tears, falls, she surrenders completely to characters, that little screen corner in the film, she grabs hard, her dramatic load is enormous, and when Denzel Does not appear in the film and leaves the camera free for Viola, she also swallows it with extreme ferocity, would be very happy if both took the acting oscar - but we know only Viola will take.

And congratulations to Denzel Washington who also shines in the direction, I0 years later he returns to direct, and concretizes the best work of his career. Finally, we have a simple movie, that enters the house of a family to tell us their stories, we do not have a technically brilliant film, we have a fabulous rhythm, incredible performances, and a story that marks, finally, we have a great movie that It's purp cinema.