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When a real event, even more so, a catastrophe becomes a film, regardless of the commercial reasons or not behind the project, one wonders what goes through the minds of screenwriters, producers and directors. romance? Do you keep the record? Call a Viggo Mortensen Already Colin Farrell?
13 liveswho directed Ron Howard and premiered this Friday on Prime Video, it takes as its starting point the rescue of twelve boys, members of a soccer team, and their coach, who have been trapped in an underground cave system in Thailand. For more information, it was relatively recently: it all started on Saturday 23 June 2018. The press gave extensive coverage throughout the time the rescue took place.
Viggo Mortensen plays Rick Stanton, one of the Western divers who participated in the rescue. Prime Video Photos
And more than one spectator must remember “the end”, if they were all rescued, if any of the children died, or a diver, and that the cave in Tham Luang it flooded when a monsoon went ahead of schedule and the thirteen were trapped for weeks.
known fact
Not long ago, in March, a film was released almost immediately, miracle in the cave, in which Western divers and many Thais who experienced the epic participated as themselves. And Netflix is preparing a series.
Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton (he is the anesthetist) and Viggo Mortensen, up to their necks in water.
So the director of A brilliant mind, cocoon Y Da Vinci’s code he literally jumped into the water, touring part of Thailand and especially Australia and taking all the time he wanted. The film lasts two and a half hours, just some dives of the divers could have been saved or avoided.
Having said that, our Viggo, who has shaved his head, and Colin Farrell are the firefighter Rick Stanton and the engineer John Volanthen, the British who are used, among the many divers in the world, to try to rescue young people. . There were 5,000 volunteers, many from 17 countries, to achieve an almost, almost miracle, because not only was the distance to be covered underwater large. The days passed, until they reached them it was not known if they survived, they had no food and oxygen was scarce.
Farrell is the engineer Volanthen and Mortensen, the fireman Stanton: both rescuers.
To make matters worse, the rain continued and there was a latent danger that the caves would flood more and more.
Howard chooses, in the first place, an at least curious decision. And this has to do with the position to be taken: it takes time to show who is trapped, not to say that he is alive and generates an alleged suspense. But if we know the ending, why does it do it?
Director Ron Howard (“The Da Vinci Code”) gives directions to the Thai boys, before the lockdown.
OK, not all viewers will be aware of what happened, but also those who don’t understand that if the movie is about a rescue, the kids will be found.
It does not matter. Howard will then retrace what happens outside the cave – the relatives, the reporters, the short-circuits between Thais and foreigners, the governor of the region through – and clearly what happens inside, and underwater, will be what will capture the most.
to breathe? Farrell suffered from panic attacks while filming underwater, in the caves built in Australia for the film.
And to make those scenes, underwater, suffocating, had the director of photography Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, the Thai who lit up the latest film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memory.
The internal tension, in the frame, plus the music of Benjamin Wallfisch (the two Element, 2049 runner blade), which is never strident and even at times the absence of musical notes makes it better to follow the film, without surprising anything, are two of the supports that Ron Howard has.
Regarding the same event, in March “Miracle in the Cave” premiered in Argentine cinemas and Netflix is preparing a series.
Of course the familiar faces of Mortensen and Farrell, as well as those of Joel Edgerton and Tom Bateman (Vendetta, death on the Nile) spend more screen time than Thais. And each has its own story behind it. 13 lives it does not become MissingCosta-Gavras’s film in which what happened to the Americans -Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek- looking for their son and husband in Pinochet’s Chile was more important than the social reality of the South American country.
No. Here is something more balanced, the truth was that without the help of the men of the West the story of the rescue would have been different. And this film tells it.
“13 lives”
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Drama. United Kingdom, 2022. Original title: “Thirteen Lives”. 150 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Ron Howard. With: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Tom Bateman. Available in: First video.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
