Poison

Film - 2023

7,3

19.3K

Poison it's a movie with Dev Patel, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Full cast. Directed by Wes Anderson. Original title Poison, runtime 17 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Riccardo Simoncini

Wes Anderson's artifice reveals itself here in all the tricks of the Mélièsian director-illusionist: the destruction (rather than breaking) of the fourth wall, the scenic wings that move like a transparent theater in synchronized movement of which it is possible to see the dramaturgical mechanisms, the actors who become character-objects, elements too, which speak of themselves as omniscient narrators but also as immersed presences. We are inside the hat from which the magician will soon take the rabbit out. But something escapes this operation of metacinematic revelation, and it is precisely the engine of the action, the incipit and therefore the epilogue, the philosophical arche, the reason why we are seeing everything that is happening on the screen. As if Wes Anderson led us to discover the how, but never the cause and purpose of that absurd world, where as in this case a very poisonous snake decided to rest on its abdomen, freezing bodies, expressions and therefore in a metacinematic sense performance actors with a few very limited facial signs (again primordial as silent cinema teaches us to do), whispered telegraphic words that become diegetic background sound so as not to disturb the silent sleeping of the reptile (or the silent racist feeling). Poison becomes the summa not only of all 4 shorts taken from the legacy of Roald Dahl, but perhaps of Anderson's entire (last) work, because it clarifies his intentions, shows his cinematographic magic, the illusion still possible in that talkative and saturated world to which he has accustomed us with all his latest films (Asteroid City docet). Where it seems that Wes Anderson has lost passion, empathy, literary divertissement to become a dull copy of himself, in Poison he tells us that something has indeed changed, but the spell persists for those who can still see it, for those who know that snake exists under the sheet even if Read all

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Roberto Flauto

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When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.