I am nobody on Italia 1: plot, cast, film, Bob Odenkirk

THEnot from this evening on first TV at 9.20pm on Italy 1, I am noone is an original thriller that combines beatings and violent scenes to an underlying humor that balances perfectly with the plot. Heroperfect in the role of a former CIA agent who has become a man like many of the middle class, the excellent Bob Odenkirk. Famous for his characterlawyer Saul Goodman first in the cult series breaking Bad and in the spin-off Better Call Saul.

I am noonethe plot of the movie

Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a downtrodden man, a frustrated husband and a derided dad from his son. That type of anonymous person, in short, who practically never gets noticed a “nobody”.

One night, two thieves break into the Mansell house and Hutch does nothing to defend his teenage son Blake (Gage Munroe) and wife Becca (Connie Nielsen). Blake accuses him of cowardice while Becca grows increasingly distant from her husband. This triggers an anger in him repressed for too long.

Deeply wounded in prideHutch brings it back to the light dark secrets which, for a long time, he had fought to keep hidden. That is to say his past as a CIA hitman. Man thus finds himself ad face a dangerous adversary who threatens his family. Doing everything to protect her and above all making sure that no one will ever judge him as a “nobody” again.

A tense and ironic action at the same time

Second feature film by Russian director Ilya Naishuller, I am noone it’s a story full of action and irony, almost a sort of variation on the theme of the saga John Wick but with unprecedented hints of sarcasm for an action of this caliber.

In fact, the film moves freely between action and entertainment, not disdaining fashionable aesthetic solutions – like slow motion or GoPro–, but at the same time introducing some recurring elements of 80s action movies into contemporary cinema and Ninety.

Najšuller chooses a wild montage and turns very violent scenes but always permeated by an underlying humor: an unusual tone and necessary for the excellent success of a film he wants break the conventions of the genre.

Also for this, the choice of protagonist Bob Odenkirk is emblematic. In a new role in his career as a comedian and sketch creator for American TV, the historic co-star of breaking Bad He has the face of an accountant and certainly not the physique du role of the action man à la Bruce Willis. An anonymous protagonist, before the criminal “awakening” to which he will be forced.

And it’s precisely thanks to this happy dichotomy That I am noone And a little gem like that: original and unexpected.

The protagonist Bob Odenkirk, star of Better Call Saul and cousin of King Charles III

Actor, comedian and screenwriter, the career of the future co-star of breaking Bad start in the mid-eighties like author for the legendary American show Saturday Night Live.

Creator of numerous sketches, Bob works with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. PLet’s ditch SNL to get started a twenty-year collaboration, always behind the scenes, with his close friend Ben Stiller. Pushed by Stiller, Bob also starts acting in small TV sketches, then he gets a few small parts in the cinema and finally, in 2009, the turning point of life.

That is to say the role of lawyer Saul Goodman in the series breaking Bad. Cult character who in 2013 it will have its own spin-off series in the series Better Call Saula prequel which shows the lawyer Goodman before he meets the protagonist of breaking Bad Walter White.

Versatile actorcapable of great performances in both dramatic and comedic roles, Bob recently made a truly incredible discovery. Thanks to the American TV program Finding Your Roots in fact, based on research into the genealogical past of individuals, it has emerged that the 61-year-old actor is King Charles III’s 11th cousin. A decidedly astonishing discovery that the actor commented with his usual irony during the show: «Maybe I will change my mind on the question of monarchy».

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