Telling the story of a murderer, a nurse who ended up being accused of 29 crimes in different hospitals, but her victims are estimated to be 400, is not easy. What to tell, what to cut in two hours? The angel of Deathwith Eddie Redmayne Y Jessica Chastainchoose a less linear and more macro path than the health system.
The original title of the film that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival can be translated as the good nurse or the good nurse. It makes no gender distinction and is much more subtle than The angel of Death What Netflix just released globally.
At the beginning of this 21st century, Charles Cullen arrives at a New Jersey hospital and immediately befriends Amy, whom he accompanies on the night shift. Amy is a single mother with two daughters whom she rarely sees and suffers from cardiomyopathy.
To get health insurance, Amy has to work a year in the hospital, she still has months to go, so even if a doctor – who charges her $ 900 for a consultation and analysis – advises her to stop working until gets a heart transplant, she can’t. She couldn’t afford the cost and she decides to risk her life.
At the same time, Charles enters her house, helps the girls with rehearsals for a school play, assists her in her attacks. He covers her.
Lethal injection
Of course, when a suspicious death in the workplace brings hospital officials to the police (seven weeks later, with the victim’s body already cremated), and when the agents question Amy, she will find out in the newspapers that something was wrong with that patient. They injected him with something and that resulted in his death.
And putting things together, Amy will start wondering who her new friend is.
But The angel of Deathwe said, it goes beyond Charles Cullen, the serial killer from whom he is the actor the theory of everything Y the Danish girl composes with limited resources. Something that also applies to Chastain, but with her we are already used to getting more and more for less, except in the role for which he won the Oscar this year, Tammy Faye’s eyes.
The film picks up and pursues the health system from all sides. There are several hospitals that kicked Cullen out before reaching the one in New Jersey, they didn’t make many waves and nobody did anything to investigate the mysterious deaths he left in his wake. There, in the New Jersey one, it becomes clear that they are hiding information from the police, because they should admit their share of responsibility and guilt. And Amy’s situation is desperate.
The cops (Noah Emmerich, Marlon in The Truman Showand Nnamdi Asomugha, of Sylvie’s love) are the characters who give the story a thriller feel. Each viewer will choose which genre to cling to when watching the film, because social drama is at the fore.
Danish director Tobias Lindholm, who directed two episodes of mind hunterand was a screenwriter for Hunting Y Another round, both by Thomas Vinterberg, never chooses the thick line. The screenplay by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who wrote the 1917but he is also responsible for the booklet of the mystery of Sohohe had made things clear on paper.
Except Cullen’s motivation. What led him to commit the crimes? There is a pattern on the mouth of one of the policemen, but, we insist, here, rather than telling the story of the murderer, another way is preferred.
It is in that comings and goings from the police investigations to the relationship between the nurses that swing the balance, but it is the actions of the four appointed interpreters that make The angel of DeathIn short, a good film with – more than about – an aberrant character.
“The angel of Death”
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drama / suspense United States, 2022. Original title: “The good nurse”. 121 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Tobia Lindholm. With: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha. Available in: Netflix.
Source: Clarin
