THEDEAD MAN’S WIRE
Type: satirical crime comedy
Direction: Gus Van Sant. With Bill Skarsgård. Drace Montgomery, Al Pacino, Colman Domingo, Myha’la Herrold, Cary Elwes, Tod Gable, Mark Helms
What drives people to perform certain acts? At the center of the new film by Gus Van Sant, who returns behind the camera seven years later Don’t Worry, there is the desire to dig into people’s heads, for example Tony Kiritsis who on February 8, 1977, in Louisville, wanted to kidnap the owner of a mortgage company intending to take the property from him due to insolvency.
And not finding him (he was on holiday in Florida) he kidnaps his son Richard, starting a series of events that go from grotesque to tragic, from farce to drama. Why Despite his determination, Tony is certainly not an expert kidnapper (especially if the target is wrong) and the whole city starts following what is happening live.
Bill Skarsgård in “Dead Man’s Wire”. (photo Stefania Rosini/Row K Entertainment)
On his side he has an ingenious system to protect himself from police raids (by tying a sawed-off shotgun to the kidnapped and to himself with wire, he puts any possible intervention to disarm him out of action) but he doesn’t seem capable of keeping in check the curiosity of his fellow citizens and above all the false promises of those who invite him to negotiate.
Because a new mass society is being born, where appearing risks being the only true commandment.
For those who want to rediscover the taste for light-hearted comedies.
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