Rise and fall

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2020)

'The Aviator' was one of the first collaborations between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio. A film that bears the imprint of the director in print and could be one of the least valued in his career, despite its high stylistic quality.
The story tells the life of the well-known Howard Hughes and how he went from being a recognized magnate to a self-contained man, added to his obsessive compulsive disorder that increased year after year. Finally, the film is about a man who was at the top and had everything, but who for different reasons lost it. This theme is highly recurring in Martin Scorsese's filmography, and although this film is unusual for the director, its style is fully incorporated. However, this very identifying style of the filmmaker undergoes some changes, such as greater attention to the use of colors. Visual changes mostly, because the narrative follows the same line as other Scorsese movies.
There is not much more to say besides that this film is yet another proof of Scorsese's masterful ability to tell a story of power and subsequent fall, but more important than that, it shows his ability to innovate in the way of telling stories.