With a handsome actor like Joel Edgerton, viewers usually find themselves looking at his face, or the eyes of blue movie stars. But in the “Train of Dreams” I found myself looking at his hands, great and great gloves, with thick fingers and joints such as nodal roots that do not reach this road on their own. Over the years, I have seen more films than I could limit, as spoiled actors who did not raise an ax or change a frame in their lives, never convince us that they had spent decades in coal mines. Edgerton looks like the real deal.
In Train Dreams, the Australian actor embodies the spirit of men who tamed the American waterfalls, where they cut trees and extended the tracks. Somewhere between Al -Marathia and the national anthem, this wonderful movie that extends for a century was directed by Clint Bentley, which is half of the creative team responsible for “Sing Sing” and “Jockey” (participated in his writing with Greg Kwaidar, with the one who takes turns to direct) . Inspiration stems from a short and exciting novel by Dennis Johnson, which honors the hand workers who built this country, focusing on one in particular, Robert Greenner, who carved the window of happiness for some time.
How were their lives, these unknown workers? Who loved? How did they die? What are the questions they asked while staring at the night sky and contemplating the stars or guilty on the Day of Resurrection? It will not surprise you that any movie that puts his head on such concepts owes the credit for Turin Malek, the director who gave the mediator a ritual freedom through which you can add a philosophical and even spiritual nature. He also took into account the lives of street workers, around 1916, and now, with Train Dreams, Bentley is doing to the northwest of the Pacific, what Days of Heaven did to Texas Banhandel – except that in this case it extends for several decades.
Many men with Greener are working with them without knowing the extent of women’s love for them, but in this field, Greener is lucky. Glades (Veliciti Jones) meets and marries the couple, and the couple builds a house for themselves along an unaccounted river, as she raises their daughter while my father cuts the wood away. By directing the movie “The New World”, Emmanuel Lopezki, director Adolfo Feloso photographed these scenes in a magical hour, and chooses moments of simple home satisfaction to represent Greener’s time between exhausted parties – perfect souvenirs that return to him in flashes when he is out of work, Or years later, if we look back.
The mere feeling of the influence of Malik does not mean that Bentley did not find his own vocabulary to tell the story of Greener. Sometimes, the movie “Train of Dreams” looks like a quilt in the way it is suitable for each other, with some sounds and pictures flashing for a short period, almost subconsciously, through our awareness, just to repeat later. The comprehensive design of the film follows meaningful meetings, many of which are with people who meet Greenner only once or twice, but their words are his understanding of the world. “Isn’t there any place in this world that a person can get some peace?” One of the isolated people, expecting self -isolation that is similar to the Ermia Johnson’s mindset, is waiting for Greenaire. Although Bentley represents a few familiar actors in small parts, many of these faces look harsh and authentic like Edgerton’s faces.
One can only notice the sense of borders that are still out of law, as life can end quickly and without warning. Greener learns that he was early, a man who is dying (the star of the Knight “Knight Collins Junior) was found behind his knees and left him to die at the hands of the man who stole him. The danger comes with the area: a tree falls in the wrong direction and crushes three men, or the white people decide that they do not like the “Chinese man” who works next to them and throws it over the bridge. Something in this last scenario remains stuck in the mind of Greenaer, who walked with the crowd and grabbed the legs of the man. The anniversary chases his dreams, and he is believed to be cursed.
What can explain the horrific turn that the film takes when a massive fire erupts? Bentley did not know the destruction that would strike southern California a few weeks before his movie was shown for the first time at the Sandans Film Festival this year, however, these natural disasters are part of American life as much as the human motivation for expansion. The movie “Dreams of the Train” depicts the dynamics of giving and giving, to celebrate those who tamed the West – the men whose unknown cups burned the sun appeared in the antique pictures, and their size is not more than Lincoln’s head on the face of one penny, staring at the base of the century. Old tree root.
“They are not the great pyramids of Egypt,” the head of the workers say, but the removal of forests and the linking of cities to the railway is an achievement that took countless men – the modern equivalent of building Roman channels or the Great Wall of China. Edgerton only embodies one of these workers, although it is not supposed to assume that they were all the same. By carefully relying on Johnson’s text, the script is treated as a individual, and distinguishes it from other characters he faces – men like the Apostle Frank (Paul Schneider) and Arn Bebsip (William Messi), who met their maker in front of his eyes.
The inheritance does not seem much for these men. On the burial site of many victims of the workplace, Arn strikes the shoes of co -workers that fell on a tree – a previously predicted image, as soon as the trunks have had time to grow around the skin. As with Malik’s films, one feels that “the dreams of the train” could have taken any number of shapes. Certainly, Bentley and Editor Parker Larami have experienced many works, in an attempt to find the right balance between abstract hair and narrative narration, without relying heavily on the aspects that would make some cry.
They are assisted all the time through the Praison Disner and the amazing and amazing novel from Will Patton (who also recorded the audio book, repeating Johnson’s selection lines in the crucial moments here). Some fundamentalists believe that the audio suspension is a crutch, but this seems to be an excellent example of this technology that has been implemented properly, adding a depth that the Silent Edgerton performance can not be achieved to a large extent and amazing cinematography without it. On the contrary, by placing a face (and those huge hands) on the character, in addition to shots for the places where he lived and worked, Bentley achieves something that the book was unable to achieve: it brings a visual dimension to this modest memorial, which creates a record number History will be recorded. He missed one way or another.