Brimstone: La hija del predicador

Brimstone es una brutal celebración del fuerte espíritu femenino que desafía la repugnancia y perversión masculina. A pesar de muchas escenas asquerosas y violentas, algunas de las cuales para mí ya estaban completamente fuera de límites, considero a Brimstone como un western moderno perfectamente elaborado con un guion excelente y actuaciones excelentes. Especialmente Guy Pearce interpreta a esa monstruosidad tan perfectamente, que masoquistamente imaginé todos los posibles guiones de cómo torturarlo y destruirlo. En contraste perfecto con él, aparecen en primer plano las frágiles bellezas de Dakota Fanning y Emilia Jones. Y a todos los fanáticos de Juego de Tronos seguramente les agradará la presencia de dos estrellas de esta serie. No puedo encontrar películas adecuadas para las vacaciones de Pascua, pero lo supera el hecho de que es una joya más grande que la otra. (21.04.2019)

Dos horas y media de sufrimiento de la protagonista femenina a manos del protagonista masculino. En un entorno épico del oeste, en cuatro actos predeciblemente anacrónicos y sin el procesamiento cineasta del autor. Los momentos aterradores se alternan con escenas baratas y la narrativa carece de subtramas que le añaden capas de pensamiento. Se centra únicamente en la profundización del mal en el personaje de Guy Pierce, sin explicar sus motivos. A veces emocionalmente intensa y sofocante, pero lamentablemente una historia unidimensional como las de una novela de supermercado para amas de casa. Y con un desenlace ridículo. (24.03.2024)

A story about womanhood conceived as a bloody drama set in the Wild West. The status of women at the time (almost every man, apart from one, see them either as cleaning ladies or whores – or both), the strength of the Christian faith and its interpretation are approached exceedingly suggestively. Not one ounce of humor, cruelty is taken to new levels, thanks too to Guy Pearce’s demonic reverend, who often steals the limelight in some scenes. The non-linear chronology of the storytelling works very well, and each chapter leads smoothly to the point and gradually answers the viewer’s questions. A masterpiece. (17.09.2017)

If it wasn’t said in advance that this was a western movie, I would have thought that the Dutch director has laid the foundations for this story somewhere under the Alps. The locations truly encourage it. Okay, fine… Let’s consider Brimstone a western movie. A western movie, shot by a Dutch director with the support of various European funds and with American actors, who showed the best they are capable of. For example, Guy Pearce is truly the ultimate bastard in this movie, who makes you think for the first half an hour just so he can make you sick for the rest of the movie. Dakota Fanning shows how incredibly she matured as an actress, because she managed to play a partially silent role absolutely fantastically. Even the atypical narration divided into chapters makes sense, even though it is not completely linear. All of that makes Brimstone a very unique, very uncompromising and rather rough movie that looks like a western, but I would rather compare it to a raw European historical drama with an atypical cast and a touch of American environment. (03.11.2017)

To his own detriment, it deals to much with constantly increasing suffering purely for suffering´s sake. In this case, more than anywhere else, less would be more. The constant martyrdom of the central heroine caused by all men makes the viewer become indifferent, not disgusted. At the same time, this would fix even the biggest snag in the form of too long footage. In any case, as an impressively constructed drama of a (non) western with a patina of a fatal Greek tragedy about a loving "a little" misogynistic father and a "ungrateful" excellent daughter that love men too much. Especially because there are some moments of hypnotic enchantment and because of great acting of Dakota. (31.03.2017)