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Pinocchio (2022)
Decontextualized and off topic
One of the worst pinocchio movies I've seen. Not at all faithful to the book, Geppetto is an almost wealthy gentleman who produces watches, Pinocchio remains a living puppet and does not really transform into a child, Mrs. Vitelli and the Blue Fairy are women of color and the landscape and the country are exactly right out of a computer graphics program. Everything is clean and tidy, even the glass jar that blocks the talking cricket. It looks like a throwback to the Middle Ages where the ancient Greek warriors were represented with medieval armor. It is a modern Pinocchio, transported to the present, in a world without discrimination where Geppetto pretends to be poor, Pinocchio pretends to be a child and other characters pretend to be other characters. Decontextualized and off topic, it has only a beautiful computer graphics, but the symbols and values that made Pinocchio great have disappeared. Dear Zemeckis, you had to study harder to make a major film like this.
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Different than the real history
The screenplay would give a different role to Lady Hamilton and to Nelson different than the real history. Lady Hamilton actually was a very frivolous courtesan, closely linked to the to the equally frivolous Neapolitan court, Nelson's lover and capable of managing a a triangular relationship, very similar to the extended families of the current time, but also to convince Nelson to condemn to death more than 100 people of the Neapolitan Revolution without understanding the meaning of her act. All this sense doesn't shine through the film, there is just an unfortunate woman almost heroic. The story is completely different and has some implications and completely different meanings.
Inferno (2016)
Deja vu
The story is always the same: the Europeans (mainly Italians) live their life in an extraordinary epicurean city ignoring that someone (mainly American) is saving the world and their epicurean life. The final screenplay is always the same: at the end the hero does an ethical lecture to the villain but without success. The villain dies without regret because he has received the correct lecture and he/she made his/her choice following the most traditional rules of the free will. That's all, a deja vu. We appreciate the efforts of Dan Brown to build an interesting history around a mystery, but it's time to reduce the aim of the screenplay to a most realistic dimension, may be a simple solution of a homicide or of a suicide or recovering a treasure. Langdon should be tired to save the world whenever he has time to spent!