" El redentor sale crucificado"

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2020)

In the '80s director John Hughes impacted audiences with 2 movies that became "cult" for the teenage audience of that time: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "The Breakfast Club"
Although some important films about this stage continued to be produced in subsequent decades, I must say that there was a time when the commercial product proliferated with excesses in language, alcohol, drugs, sex and without any dramatic content.
With his movie "Easy A", director Will Gluck pays tribute to John Hughes by telling a fun story that contains the interests and concerns of a large group of young students at a public high school in Ojai, California, in 2010.
Using an elaborate Bert V Royal script with very sharp dialogues, the director weaves a consistent plot in which his characters seem to be obsessed and with the firm purpose of building a false image of their true personality.
From this thesis, the director establishes a satirical comedy tone and gives free rein to pointing out the topics that concern him about our society: the games of loyalties and disloyalties as appropriate, friendships for interests, fidelities, betrayals: hypocrisy.
The film also shows how a small lie to support someone, can lead you towards a very problematic process for yourself and for third parties, reaching a point where amending mistakes and demonstrating the truth, will necessarily bring consequences and collateral damage.
Another very important aspect of the film "Se Dice de Mi" is the emergence of a great actress, who until now had only appeared in minor roles and here she forcefully demonstrates her limitless histrionic abilities, Emma Stone.
A very agile comedy full of references, scenes, cinematographic and literary that together with the thematic force, the measured direction, plus the impressive performance of Emma Stone make "Easy A" a key film and a benchmark in this genre.
Cast includes: Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm Mcdowell