Review of News of the World (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 16 Feb 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

Greengrass and Hanks give themselves to the Western and speak not only to today's U.S., they don't start from Ford [John, not Gerard] to just get to Trump. Two homeless losers who, unlike "The Way Back" (Weir 2010), no longer have any destination to reach. As stateless, they will learn to live with each other, to be the mutual reason for their existence. This is reminiscent of the ending of "The Thing" (Carpenter 1982): friends or enemies, abandoned on this wasteland, we can try to keep each other company. Overwhelming humanitas. But "in cauda venenum" and the last scene frames the story in an Easter context: after three days it is fulfilled a rebirth (of a Nation? of a community? of a solidarity? of a new storytelling in place of the failed métarécits? Boh).