I admit that I approached Armageddon time with different prejudices. First of all, despite its critical successes, none of Gray's previous works had ever resonated with me. Point according to the amarcords of great directors they often struggle to become of general interest except for rare exceptions.

Instead Gray finds the right tones and the right themes to transform his adolescent parable into a universal tale. The loss of innocence due to entry into society is something as wrong as it is inevitable and the screenplay tells it without hesitation.

Armageddon time becomes a lacerating song of modernity. The corruption of the individual caused by social conventions, rules that are almost incomprehensible for a child raised in a family that knows what discrimination is, is narrated in an almost surgical way. As well as the impossibility of escaping this fate.

Gray has a steady hand, he films with the camera, but doesn't linger, he tells the story knowing when to stop in the face of pain and without ever exaggerating. His is a cinema that could be defined as classic, at times close to the best Eastwood, which has the pleasure of the story and the gentle camera movement capable of accompanying the performers.

Protagonist of the last Cannes Film Festival where However, it didn't collect any awards, Armageddon Time is a film worth seeing: one of those works in which you can be drawn scene after scene into a masterful tale.