Picked up one of the greatest tragedies in the world's highest peak, Everest recalled almost without turbulence means.
Title Everest, which is actually the name of the highest peak in the world, suggesting that the film Baltasar this Komákur must appear stately and grand. Moreover, the film featuring Hollywood actors of high repute, and raised a real events of the tragedy that struck a number of climbers of Everest in 1996. Thus, it is not wrong if raised expectations that the film might be more engaging than similarly themed films that fictional story, like Cliffhanger (1993) or Vertical Limit (2000). But, the reality is not always so.
The film focuses on a group climbing Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal who use the services of a guide Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants leaders (Jason Clarke) from New Zealand. Rob led a team of guides and training for amateur climbers from different nationalities and professions. Simple intention of the climbers to reach the highest peak point on earth do need a long preparation, even more than a month. However, all the preparations are done as if not quite as on the day the long-awaited ascent, the other speaks of natural conditions.
Everest is basically a good movie. This film tells a tragic true story with sensitivity, informative, and packed with high production values. The film is fairly detailed in describing the situation ascent to Everest. All sorts of stages of training, things that need to be prepared climbers, difficult terrain, security settings, to the fact that not all climbers can get to the top or back-home-for various reasons, described by so smoothly here.
If climbing Everest in reality is very heavy and risky, this film has to convey the information properly. Audio visual quality that qualified-especially production design and visual effects, successfully supporting an overview of these situations so that it looks convincing.
Film Everest also intends to make the reconstruction as well as re-examination of the causes of the tragedy of 1996 which became the main point of this film. Extreme weather, the condition of some of the participants, and the coming of climbers-the impact on the climbing lane management and equipment, emphasized as the main cause of the deaths of a number of climbers at that time. Spoken enough detail chronologically, this section also the added value of this film.
However, when the strength of the film Everest is in describing the condition and narrative chronology of the events, the film is actually sluggish in causing the dynamics between the characters. It is true that this film highlight some figures with a character that is strong enough, like Jan (Keira Knightley) who is the wife of Rob, the board base camp Helen (Emily Watson), the billionaire US Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin) and his wife Peach (Robin Wright), postman Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), to a professional climber who led another group, Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal). However, there was virtually no significant fluctuation between them.
There is a tendency to read this film wants to neutral to the characters, since everything is based on a real character, and avoid fiksionalisation too much, for example antagonisation particular figure or add an element of humor. And, perhaps it is also a tendency that cause the interaction of the characters is very flat. The only interesting characters individually with stories, not enriched by interactions with other characters. If there really highlighted, maybe just Rob and Jan relationships are processed emotionally, even if the presentation is not special.
Therefore, in terms of the story more Everest look like a reenactment in a documentary program on the National Geographic Channel or Discovery Channel, rather than a dramatic film that emotionally draining. With very plate presentation, the film may not be great concern if the characters instead of actors Hollywood class A. Limitations of space characterization was somewhat inhibit these players to perform optimally, although none were playing bad.
However, once again, Everest remains a good film when viewed that this film as possible trying tells about a real event. Emotion and thrill elements may be somewhat sacrificed, but the film still succeeds in conveying a picture of conditions and information about what needs to be known from this tragedy, in the form of narrative film. If it turns out the intention of the film maker is not making excessive dramatization, the film is already doing its job. However, to be a spectacle worth of entertainment, the film is still lacking bite.
(Muvila.com)
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