1938 оны Москваг өгүүлэх киног зарим шүүмжлэгч “гайхамшиг” хэмээн үнэлсэн бол бусад нь удаан, уйтгартай гэж шүүмжилжээ.
Daily Wire-ийн бүтээл Confession-ийг Вацлав Мархоул найруулж, консерватив подкастер Бен Шапиро кино зохиолыг нь бичсэн байна. Сталины улс төрийн хэлмэгдүүлэлтийн үеийн Москва хотод өрнөх үйл явдалд архинд донтсон утга зохиолын профессор Алексейг Зөвлөлтийн дэглэмийг шүүмжилдэг санваартантай хуйвалдсан хэмээн буруутгадаг.
Роб Лоу Алексейн дүрд, Жеймс Франко түүний хуучин шавь бөгөөд одоо байцаагч болсон Владимирын дүрд тогложээ. The Hollywood Reporter-ийн Фрэнк Шек киног найруулгын хувьд хиймэл, уйтгартай гэж шүүмжилсэн бол Variety-ийн Жо Лейдон үйл явдал нь их яриатай, хэмнэл удаан ч гол дүрийн жүжигчид дүрүүдээ үнэмшилтэй бүтээснийг онцолжээ.
Харин The Free Press-ийн Род Дреер Confession-ийг “гайхамшигт бүтээл” хэмээн нэрлэж, итгэл үнэмшил, үнэний тухай чухал асуудлыг хөндсөн гэж үнэлсэн байна. Awards Daily-ийн Саша Стоун уг киног Daily Wire-ийн хувьд том ахиц хэмээн тодорхойлж, харин Slate-ийн Ребекка Онион жүжигчдийн тоглолтыг сайшаахын зэрэгцээ зохиол болон найруулгыг нэгэн хэвийн гэж дүгнэжээ. Confession киног DailyWire+ платформоос үзэх боломжтой.
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The new Daily Wire-produced drama Confession has divided critics, with some tepid on the film while others are hailing it as “masterpiece.”
The movie, directed by Václav Marhoul and the first to be written by conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro, is set in Moscow in 1938 during the era of Stalin’s political purges.
It stars Rob Lowe as Alexei, an alcoholic literature professor who is accused of conspiring with a priest who has been critical of the Soviet regime. James Franco also stars as Vladimir, a former pupil of Alexei and now his ruthless interrogator.
For The Hollywood Reporter’s Frank Scheck, the result proves a “dull, turgid slog.”
“Hopelessly stilted in its execution (it’s the kind of prison drama in which the guards and soldiers speak with all the realism of automatons), the terminally tedious Confession seems mainly designed to demonstrate that its screenwriter benefited from a really good education during which he studied all the Russian literary masters,” argues Scheck.
Variety’s Joe Leydon took a similar view, writing that Confession feels “talky and sluggish.”
Leydon added: “Lead actors Rob Lowe and James Franco do a credible and creditable job of inhabiting their characters, and somehow manage to strike potent emotional sparks with even the more stilted dialogue.”
Conservative news site The Free Press was much more positive, with critic Rod Dreher heralding the film as a “masterpiece.”
Dreher goes on to praise Confession as “extraordinary,” arguing that it tackles weighty questions about faith and truth and praising Franco for his performance “with the eyes and delivery of a spitting cobra.”
Sasha Stone of Awards Daily was similarly impressed, calling the film a “great leap forward” for The Daily Wire.
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“In a better culture, one not captured by a totalitarian worldview, Shaprio’s screenplay, along with the performances in this film, would be considered for the Oscars,” claimed Stone.
Rebecca Onion, of Slate, found something to love in the performances if not the movie at large, writing: “It’s a real tribute to the craft of the professional actor that such a darkly lit, visually boring movie could be at all watchable.”
While Onion says the film can be “tedious stuff,” she goes on to make her “own confession: Despite the canned feeling of the script and the monotony of the direction, I enjoyed seeing Franco on screen again. Broadened out in middle age after his years out of the spotlight, he uses his shifty eyes and shit-eating grin to good purpose in playing Vladimir.”
Confession is streaming on DailyWire+.
