Assholes

Assholes, a word that means the lack of maturity , a word that appears in the mouth of someone who has been or believe you have passed that stage . Assholes, Raúl Perrone film takes us for a ride on wheels in the world of fools , spin is sometimes light but others ghost train becomes .
Pendejos is a silent film. No voices are heard , which does not mean that nothing is said. These voices - shown - through intertitles develop intimate stories , even absurd and banal for who we are not assholes . Maybe that is the first obstacle that presents the film, how to think about the lives of these guys but from ours.
Perrone proposes a way to understand , then the close-ups are long , performing and allow time for us to use far more than the sense of sight and hearing. Open the door to an effect of 3 steps : the mere contemplation of the plane , then the contemplation of detail and the third step is the inward contemplation . Many will say that the plans are too long but it is doubtful that the same effect is achieved if not give us the time to achieve something difficult : to reflect , not out , but from within.
Similarly , long walks and rides skate show a prowl a wander in a circle, without beginning or end , a circle is perhaps the metaphor of a youth who can not, and does not want to let her feel the arrow future that has as value the idea of ​​progress , because little or nothing beside progresses. An absurd world in our eyes . Perhaps a world that we want to look at something because we are responsible .


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The sound design of this film is a work of mixture resembles a mix of electronic music. A musical language in which amorphous appearance cumbia, reggae and electronic interlock. Brushstrokes music melodrama appear at certain times a leitmotiv that occurs when the assholes become aware of the crisis in which they are. But this awareness is partial because then starts again mixing sounds where everything becomes circular charges a different sense.
In this direction , as a side game , voice ( intertitles ) parents charged that melodramatic, seriously, that 's normal for us to quickly breaks the isolation tone. "You have to be responsible ", " you want to be an idiot all your life ", " first study and then have time to do what you want to do " phrases that function as a trademark law and rules of a game as the idiots do not understand because I do not play . So " no " voice .
The certainty that studying a future, you have to be responsible , that you can not fool all life is achieved : all certainties fell at least the previous certainties. All other universe of meaning involves the kids and nothing can or might want to do to communicate . However, the adult world, which is supposed mature or nothing can be done to bridge the communication gap .
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Perrone select show the boys as martyrs , some martyrs of this era. Boys dying , kill , kill , kill . But none of their sacrifices is in revolution. In Dreyer 's Joan of Arc , Joan says that death is the ultimate form of revolution : these assholes die, but can not even choose . Police shootings , accidents, excesses. Unrewarded sacrifices . The square was empty, it gets dark , the last idiot is going with his skate. Sunrise and appear other , newer, more fodder for the circle never ends , and we do not know how it was the beginning.
A fool plays his guitar in his room stripped . It is pulling in Creole Stairway to Heaven , an epic song of other times. And that epic fades to give a metaphor : the assholes die , step by step up the ladder to heaven and few care .
The space of contemplation proposed Perrone reminds us manage Apictchapong Weresaekatul Filipino . We have time , let us get lost in the images, we walk and look inside . Then I thought maybe uncomfortable is not only the duration of the plane if the abyss that forces us to peek .
Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant , Jim Jarmusch. Yes, of course . But since when does Perrone movies ? Long time. We might say that those directors are reminiscent of the work of Perrone : justice or more speakers can say the same. How else show the prowl , the senseless race without a goal if not with these resources. Certainly you can choose other , but that each director 's election .

References to Dreyer, not only in the close-ups of assholes as martyrs and adults as "bad" but in the shadows, reminding Vampyr and the splitting of the shadow as a metaphor for duality and ghost. The assholes are ghosts, their shadows multiply, cross, and acquire identity separate from their bodies . All images are ghostly .
What else Antonioni and Blow up, a way to show the senselessness appears . The stupid fight over something they do not want , get it and then discarded , because it is not what it complies , because he knows that is what makes up .
However, beyond the quotes, the film manages to amalgamate these hints is to get away from mere homage and put them on the basis of a new discourse .

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Pendejos is a long movie , in a world ( as it was before in music) in which films should last hour and a half . And it's not a film for all audiences. While no film is. The old dichotomy between taste and quality. What we can not say is that Pendejos is not a valid and necessary look.

End table , a hallway in black and white that changes textures and slowly spectra appear . "Here are the ghosts of those who died being skinny " says an asshole in the square and march down the aisle the shadows , always incomprehensible lives and our eyes not assholes , but finally complex lives. And a final thought , one tinge of sadness , a need for redemption for those assholes neither good nor bad . And also a warning for us that sometimes we do little to understand .