9º – Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
The film presents several random fragments of the life of Jacob, a disturbed Vietnam war veteran, showing all the intensity of his life, along with events that may not be real. The plot will vary between hallucinations and real events, without ever informing the viewer about what each one is. The cold atmosphere, emanating a feeling of helplessness, whether in the character or in the spectator himself, manages to give all the necessary substance to the film.
8º – Good Time (Benny Safdie, 2017)
A man decides to rob a bank and take his brother with psychological problems to help him. The problem is that the robbery goes wrong and that man’s brother is captured by the police. The film gains all of its dynamism by showing the man’s unbridled search to escape the police and raise money to help his brother in prison, all for a single night. Frenetic from beginning to end, ‘Good Time’ is a great film, with a nimble plot and an apparatus of scenes that remain in the viewers’ heads for several days. Still worth mentioning is the great performance of actor Robert Pattinson in charge of the film.
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