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Review of ‘Hidden destiny’

Two looks at the Philip K. Dick adaptation starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

    In favor, by Noel Ceballos

    Of all the incursions into metaphysics that recent cinema has given us, that of Hidden Destiny may be the most devastating: an Beyond with a structure of gray bureaucracy, some angels who outline our future with the spirit of an official tired of overtime. . Philip K. Dick readers may find many reasons to throw their hands up over this (very unfaithful) adaptation of one of his first stories, but it is better to see the final result, a multi-room romance that has been infected by some of the writer’s obsessions. Thus, schizophrenia, anxiety, and the struggle against suffocating authority act as stimulating interferences in a love story (fou) that is not afraid to immerse itself in kitsch or border on the purest camp (those superb teleports in sequence shot). ‘Hidden destiny’ does not dare to take the acid pessimism of its best moment (Terence Stamp’s monologue about free will) to the last consequences, but It has an interesting side effect: it serves as a first taste of Dickian paranoia for hundreds of lovesick teenagers.

    Against, by Jordi Costa

    Published in 1954, Philip K. Dick’s short story Tuning Team opened with a conversation between an enigmatic official and a dog, ending with a metaphysical twist to the writer’s paranoid gaze. In his directing debut, screenwriter George Nolfi submits the text of the visionary (a minor Dick: Hollywood has always preferred not to face the major words of his genius) to a singular process of amenabarización: that is to say, to the eradication of the playful and the jibarización of ambitions. The final climax seems, in fact, a paraphrase of ‘Abre los ojos’ (1997), by Alejandro Amenábar, or, perhaps, of ‘Vanilla Sky’ (Cameron Crowe, 2001). The great finding of ‘Team adjustment’ was in his vision of the torn fabric of reality as a functionary of fragile efficiency. ‘Hidden Destiny’ places the idea at the service of a romantic fiction that, as every tired viewer knows, is one of those territories where free will (of the author, of the characters) has little (or no) space to manifest itself.

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    The best: the candid eccentricity of the film.

    The worst: the foolish resolution of the conflict.

    DATA SHEET

    Address: George Nolf Distribution: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Michael Kelly, Terence Stamp Original title: The Adjustment Bureau Country: USA Year: 2011 Release date: 04-03-2011 Gender: Fantasy, Thriller Screenplay: George Nolf Duration: 107min

    Synopsis: Matt Damon plays a man who discovers the future that Fate has in store for him and is not satisfied. In order to change him, he must chase, through and under the streets of present-day New York, the woman he loves.

    Source: Fotogramas

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