The story of the struggle of a robber and a policeman, seasoned with drive and speed and revealing the main theme of the eternal problem of fathers and children; about the feeling of guilt that haunts the rest of life and from which it is impossible to get rid of.
The film consists of three parts-stories directly related to each other, because watching the plot is not boring and the characters of the film do not get bored. The first part introduces Luke Glanton - he is a few words crazy motorcyclist, living "on suitcases"; tells about his love story and fatal mistake. Luke’s bright storyline quickly and easily moves into the second part, telling about the life of a police officer Avery Cross – a “good boy” with career ambitions, but who is very tormented by his conscience, adding to the plot the game of “good, bad cop”. And the final part of the film is a chance acquaintance (oh, how banal) and the unsuccessful friendship of their sons - Jason and AJ.
Actors play. The image of a bad boy is easy to collect - a tattooed motorcycle racer, smokes and wears T-shirts backwards, but Ryan Gosling continues to play at the highest level. He showed his character from different sides: a cool motorcycle racer, a criminal, a cheerful man, a caring father and a guy who in a critical situation accepts the inevitable. Bradley Cooper’s role is emotionally challenging and interesting to watch. In essence, he played two versions of his character, balancing between good and evil. Director Derek Cienfrancs admitted that he wrote this role under Cooper. Just as well fit Eva Mendes, more dramatic and uninhibited in the role of immigrant Romina and the meekly correct wife of Cross - Rose Byrne. The only positive and "pure" character is Kofi, Romina's husband, reliable and thorough - he was played by Mahershala Ali. And Ray Liotta, who played a corrupt cop, was scratching his hands at the expression of his face and manner of communication. This is what I call the perfect game and “I believe!”
Aesthetic pleasure you get from the camera work - the views of the picturesque town of Schenectady (which from the language of the Indians means "behind the pines") and the beautiful landscapes of the pine forest, successful shooting from the back and close-ups of the main characters. And the music conveys the mood of the film - a little melancholy and depressing.
The place under the pines is a sad and bright crime drama that leaves a sense of hope for the good. I wanted to believe that Jason would find himself and be the best version of his father.
The gloomy atmosphere of the forties and the fifties
I decided to watch this picture, honestly, because of Gosling, who by that time starred in only two more or less significant films (tragic and slow "Drive" and tightly knit melodrama "Memory Diary"). In addition, Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper go to him. And this trio gives a good job.
The plot of the film covers a fairly large time span, and it can be divided into several parts. Before us appears stuntman-motorcyclist Luke, wandering around the country and earning a living with his skill. One day he meets his ex, with whom he once spent the night, which had far-reaching consequences, namely the appearance of a child. Deciding that the son should have a father and not wanting him to repeat the path that he went himself, he quits with nomadism and settles in a car service. The money brought by the decaying car service is enough only for your life, but not for your son. In addition, in the life of his son and mother, the adoptive father takes part, who is strongly opposed to Luke. There is no decent job, but there are banks that our hero is starting to empty at breakneck speed. And one of them ends tragically - Luke is shot by a law enforcement officer during another raid.
Police officer Avery is experiencing a crisis - the shock of the murder of a man who is the same father as him, tormented by doubts about his official duty. But he has loyal and kind colleagues who do not abandon him, but who are in fact “werewolf in uniforms” and use their positions to cover up their dirty intrigues. Hence the fall of Ivery begins – from an honest policeman to a dodgy and walking on the heads of a prosecutor.
Fifteen years later, the confrontation between sons Luke and Avery begins, which almost turned into a disaster and a repetition of the story already told.
Ryan Gosling reveals here all the pain and regret of his powerlessness that can't be a normal father (episode at church and suicide bell). He despises himself, but realizes that the realities of his slippery path can not be changed and that he has no other direction. Eva Mendes embodies the image of a caring and anxious mother who wants her child, if not the best, then at least a decent life. Bradley Cooper presents a kind of image of a realist who has felt all the realities of this world and that being honest and noble for this rotten world is not enough.
In the title, I did mention a tribute to the dark films of the last century, namely noir. Here the whole atmosphere, and in particular the ambiguous characters, and locations, and the general mood of the film are a kind of echo of the atmosphere of hopelessness, fatality, impotence that was so characteristic of them. Even the techniques used here are nothing but tracing from the noirs (sliding rays of signs in the dark, faces and places shrouded in darkness and tobacco smoke, night panoramas, a city that appears as a crackling swamp of vice and temptation).
The secondary heroes were also delighted. Not to say that they are memorable, but perhaps textured, well revealing their images and motivation. Here I can single out only Ray Liotta, who well revealed himself as a guide to Avery on the dark side (and in general it was nice to see on the screen a colossus of the old echelon of honored figures of cinema).
The music, especially in the first third of the film, only complements the image of the film and gives the already good drama even greater depth and involvement in the feelings and actions of the characters.
Now for a spoonful of tar. In my opinion, the picture is drawn out, besides, the stimulus of Luke’s son is not too clear, why suddenly such motivation and interest in the fate of a person whom he knows only from the stories of grandmother (because of this minus a point and a half).
In conclusion, I want to note that this is a deep drama about life as such, the problem of fathers and children, the relationship between generations, which is not obvious, but which acts whether we like it or not, the problem of choice and orientation, losses and acquisition, missed opportunities.
8.5 out of 10
' Place under the pine trees' for some reason was re-released in Russian cinemas in September 2022, although 10 years have passed since the release of the film and this is definitely not the film that deserves it.
Title. 'Place under the pines' - this is the name of the city where the events of the whole film take place. But does it reflect the meaning of the film? I don't think. There are very few pine trees in the film.
Timekeeping. If the film was 2 times shorter, it would only benefit from it. The director has no sense of time! There is practically no dynamics, in melodramas and even more actions occur in a minute.
Actors. I really liked only Ryan Gosling, the first part of the film looked with interest, and then I just wanted to fall asleep or leave the theater.
Plot. Because of the incredible length of the story lost a lot. The attention just diffuses. The third part is as incomprehensible as the ending. What did the director mean by that? That parenting doesn't affect anything, genes decide everything? We never saw the place as such. What will happen to the sons of their fathers?
Music. It was good only during the robbery of banks.
I don’t know how this movie can have such a high rating. Of course, not directly horror-horror, but clearly not a masterpiece.
There's a murder. But you're really shying away from another scene.
But the most amazing thing about this film is that it deals with all its diversity.
There are three acts with different heroes. And each act is about its own problem: fatherhood, police violence, justice and again fatherhood, but from the other side. I watched this movie knowing that I would be reviewing it. And because of that, he was crooked from the middle. Just from the middle 'Place under the pines' it looks like the director knew he would never get the money for another movie and so he decided to make three at once. I couldn't believe this really complicated story led to one denominator. And this is what I found so wonderfully: my surprise.
This movie is emotional. And not what this movie looks like in the first act. This is not a boy drama about boyish feelings in a complex paradigm. But this is definitely a festival film about the boy’s language of emotions.
The film looks exactly as you would expect from 'Focus features' or 'Anapurna'. The characters are verbose and slow to speak, the frame is painted in the spirit of independent cinema, but all this is mounted so quickly that it turns out almost an ordinary feature film. In other words, it is 'Sound of metal' but in dynamics, for example, 'Gone'. Objectively, it's neither good nor bad. But subjectively, I want to be slower.
The music here is rubbish. The soundtrack was written by accident. There is exactly one scene where the sound on the background is specific and to the place (scene with a wrench). Anything but looks like a very bad attempt to imitate Hans Zimmer in the video where he says he writes music from a script alone and sees a movie for him to do so unnecessarily. The soundtrack here is just a very inexpressive ambient. In ' Place under the pines' this is not a diverse genre, but ' the music of the environment', only in a very bad sense.
The plot of the film shows us about a fair stuntman who decided to tour the provinces of the state, combining the pleasant with the useful. But one day after the performance, he meets an ex-girlfriend with a young child. It was this encounter that influenced the protagonist to stay with her and help the child. But to do that, he has to take a desperate step.
Very slow film, telling about the lives of two heroes who are bound by their fate for many years. All our actions in the past are reflected in our lives today.
The main character of the film (Ryan Gosling) tries to correct his past mistakes in any way for the better life of his son. The secondary character of the film (Bradley Cooper) is an exemplary father and police officer, but one wrong act committed out of a sense of justice causes him an irreparable wound for life.
The main leitmotif of the film is the relationship between fathers and children. What is a father willing to do to break his principles for his child, thereby acting against the law? It is at this point that the conflict between the two heroes takes place.
The creative acting duo of District Gosling and Bradley Cooper blend harmoniously and show two different views of justice. Each of the characters will eventually swap places with each other.
Director Derek Cienfrancs talentedly showed the criminal-psychological drama of two fathers. You can see a certain experience of making films with such insight.
A film that definitely deserves attention and should be viewed by people who love movies in one way or another. After all, this picture, which touches on many important problems that are relevant to this day and reign in many families, and that is why watching this film you can highlight some moments for yourself, based on which to conclude what is really good and what is bad, about what are the relationships between parents and children, namely father and child or vice versa mother and child.
The main character of the film Luke would seem unremarkable person, but from the very first minutes both the image of the hero and his behavior catches the eye, but Luke, like most people, strives for the best, although everything turns out the opposite, from the very first minutes he talks about the attitude to his child, about what he would like his future to be in abundance and at least without tragedy, as it seemed in his opinion he had. But on the way to success one way or another, you need to give up many things that the main character does not do and stumbles into problems and ends his life. Well, the hero, played by Bradley Cooper, may tell about the very negative side of work in the organs, because when you enter the service, you must understand that such work becomes part of life, where you can face the most unpleasant moments of your life, which do not always end on a positive note, so approaching the choice of profession you need to think about everything to the smallest detail, and if it is, then what you really want to do, you need to realize the fact that you will have to face.
Surely this picture teaches that everything that is done by older people, one way or another, develops on the younger generation, because the child perceives everything from the smallest details, so it is necessary to protect a loved one from hostility and give only the best possible.
9 out of 10
And both for the idea of the film and for the great role of actors, especially Ryan Gosling.
This film is about fathers and sons. In fact, these are three separate stories, each intertwined with the other. Smaller films would only tell one story, but The Place Under the Pines is bigger in scale and requires all three parts to fully tell the entire gripping story. The main message of the film is that life concerns not only our everyday life, but also those you influence and those you will leave for many years to come.
The first father is Luke (Ryan Gosling). Who didn't know he had a son until a girl, whose name he doesn't remember, appeared in his life with a one-year-old son. Up to that point, he was brave without ambition, without money, and without caring about his bullying life. But now he's a father. My father has no money and no job. In a dirty, inside out, torn T-shirt and marginal tattoos covering his arms, neck and face, "telling" about his difficult life. In this film, he is the embodiment of a restrained, quiet, soulful and charming bully. And now that he's a father, he needs to take care of his son as much as he can. So he joins his partner, Robin. For a joint duo in the style of Bonnie and Clyde.
The complete opposite of it lives in Schenectady, New York, in a place "behind the pines," where the only thing dirtier than the meanest criminals are the cops themselves. In this way we see the second father. The character of Avery (Bradley Cooper) carefully strives to be the greatest and fairest man on the planet. He's a cop and he's a loving father too.
In the film, styles and montage of shooting were chosen that will reflect certain situations and emotions of the characters. You can guess what it will look like when Ryan Gosling races through the woods on his motorcycle. But as the viewer gets closer to the more extensive finale, there are some beautiful snapshots of nature, the trees that line the rural roads of Schenectady. It works particularly well when paired with Bradley Cooper showing a wonderful game in which Avery is constantly trying to cope with his life.
The final act tells a story very different from the previous two, but completely connected. It could be tweaked a bit, but The Place Under the Pines doesn’t tell a quick story. It tells the story of several lives, death, family, honor, sincere fatherly love. Using common themes of revenge, ambition and what it means to be a father and son. I say he succeeds on his larger scale, even if he doesn't just tell the story the way he'd like to.
This film will appeal to everyone who wants to see a touching story, vivid drama and fatherly love.
10 and 10
Let’s start with the fact that in the film ' Place under the pines' quite well tied storyline, thanks to which we see a certain morality of this work. It's about what happens almost every day in our world, about revenge and forgiveness, that the world is in a way small. After all, this can happen to any of us, we can be in any of these places, and what would you do?
The main character can be said to change internally, most actions come from ignorance, what will happen next? How do we do better? What do you do in such a situation? There's a lot about people's behavior that makes you think, and I think this movie is good food for thought.
The title of the film is poetic, intriguing, probably the first thing that attracted me to watch this film. The second is Ryan Gosling, a very good acting game, as do other actors.
9 out of 10
General impression: Operating capital true film refers to life circumstances. No, well, sometimes fate will turn so that the Brazilian series will seem like childish babble.
In general, starting to watch “The Place Under the Pines”, I did not expect that the director of the tape once shot “Valentine”. Well, this film went a little further from tediousness, but a long timekeeping of 140 minutes palpably hangs overhead, like a storm cloud.
The director weaved a lifetime of generations, no wonder the film-triptych, in order to show the slogan of the tape in action: “Revenge in inheritance”. It all begins with the acquaintance of the stuntman Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) makes a tour from one province to another. At the end of one of his performances, he meets his ex-girlfriend - Romina (Eva Mendes), soon learning that she has a one-year-old son - Jason. Deciding to provide for his son, he quits his job as a stuntman, however, Romina is against Luke being in her son's life as she herself is involved in the relationship. Then Luke decides to make a desperate move - to rob a bank. And this is the first part of the film, in the second we watch the grown-up son of Luke – Jason (Dane Dehan) and his new friend, as well as impending problems.
If you think about it, what does cinema mean in the first place? This is a very common theme of fathers and children. And if Luke was not ready to become a father and comes to the surface – a huge responsibility. Then in the film there is another hero – a police officer Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper) who simply can not (and does not know how) cope with the upbringing of his son. That's because Avery blames himself for one misdemeanor, and carries that burden throughout his life. And these swings vary from the first chapter to the second. Which is important in principle, but at the same time boring.
As for me, the picture lacks dynamism, there are too long and completely unnecessary shots that can be safely replaced or even removed. I would like to point out that children are never to blame for what happens. It's our fault. Because somewhere not taught, somewhere scored, something missed.
6 out of 10
The first minutes of the film give pure American pathos and beautiful shooting, by the way, the second inherent in the film to the very end and does not cause me disappointment. Moreover, I want to draw your attention to the musical accompaniment of this picture. I've never listened to music that's put in the background. Always focused mainly on the plot, but here the soundtracks helped to feel the rage, fear, despair that the actors did not show (but more about that later).
The music is delicious, oh, these melodies, which run goosebumps on the skin.
Perhaps this is where the positive characteristics of this film end. I don’t know what was worse than the actors’ play or the plot, but since the overall positive impression is the key to a good script, because it is the unfolding story that is the basis of the picture that feeds visualization and actors, we will analyze the script!
Even a beautiful picture cannot save a meager and intermittent plot, which, if it has logic, is far-fetched. It is incredibly predictable and boring, you want to yawn already in the first half of the film. The footage of a bank robbery and an increasing desire to own money raises the question of "greed or the desire to provide for your son?" After a kind of sacrifice, so that Romina did not tell the child about his father, the question disappears and the picture begins to resemble “In all seriousness”. The moral and moral side of the film. The director forces us to sympathize with Luke and his fate. Is there anything for? What did he do? Slept with a girl, remembered her name a year later, and then accidentally found out about her son? Is the baby even desirable? (Naturally not) Should we sympathize with him because he chose “family” instead of the so-called “career”?
The director specifically changes the labels of the positive and negative hero. Why the brutality of the detective and the interrogation of Avery, who was just doing his duty? If only he had to face the hatred of Romina for the death of his beloved, so besides this, he is haunted by the misunderstanding of his wife, who longs for her husband to leave this job. The contemptuous views of the father, who also does not like the choice of his son, because he sees in him a politician. It would seem that this trouble Avery ends, so reveals the true essence of his friends. And here the director raises the issue of justice and the problem of choice. Friends or honor? Friends or the law? Friendship or justice?
In the third part, we encounter grown children and how unexpectedly (no) they are introduced by fate. However, it's not as striking as the change in Jason after he finds out who his father was and what really happened to him. Luke's expressiveness was clearly conveyed to him. Would you avenge your murdered father without knowing him? How can you be attached to someone you’ve never even seen? To a father who didn't raise you, didn't put the least bit of it in you, other than biological? Another amazing thing was the photo in my wallet. I don't know what it's like to live with a nagging conscience for 15 years. He achieved a lot in terms of career, but could not accept what he did. The last part, as the final part, should finally reveal the idea / concept / moralization of the film, but this does not happen. The film touches on many topics, but what is the main one? The father-child problem? Financial instability? Justice? Revenge? Career growth? Roughly speaking, a basic set, but none of it is completed.
Now let's talk about acting, or rather its absence. Where the hell are the emotions?! Why aren't Cooper and Gosling doing their best? What's the brick face for most of the movie? There are a lot of moments for everyone to realize, but no, Gosling only plays his expressiveness, which even I can envy. Cooper just cries under the pine trees. And about Eva Mendes even do not want to talk, unlike the previous she just wildly overplayed.
May the Gosling fans forgive me.
“The place under the pines” is very popular abroad. In various foreign social networks, you can often find this film in the recommendations, and for some users it stands on a par with Drive and Taxi Driver. Many praise Ryan Gosling for his amazing performance, some consider it one of the best roles of his career, and others associate themselves with the main character. For many months, this movie has been haunting me. Everywhere I came across positive reviews and pleasing images from this film. After all this, I decided to look at it, and in the end I regretted it.
After watching, I can hardly believe that so many people appreciated this “creation”. Does anyone see the wrong structure of the film? I didn't check to see if there were any problems with it during production, but if there were any, since when did critics become so merciful? Why such a high rating, and when did they begin to take note of any disagreements? If there were no problems, I would never be able to understand the writers’ clumsy decision in the middle of the film. I will try to explain without spoilers. The fact is that the film has a cheerful beginning. It starts off very interesting, I liked Gosling's character from the first minute. His character, of course, is not new and original, but there is something in him, perhaps only thanks to the actor, but about that later. I loved the atmosphere, the visual component, the music and, most importantly, the plot. It was slow, but I understood the whole point and where it was going. To my great regret, a blatant hacking began from the middle. Began to show unnecessary and meaningless characters, the first hour of the film lost all its essence. Now we had to suddenly plunge into the criminal atmosphere, guess who would frame whom and so on. Then the movie tries to be a drama again, but it doesn’t work. It’s hard to keep track of all this if you had a very different mindset in the beginning. Nowhere was it said that the film would change its genre in the middle, and I didn’t sign up for it. The rest destroys everything the previous one built. I understood the final meaning, but it is so banal that it is better not to go into this topic. If the writers originally wanted to convey the message that was at the end, why did they show us the prologue in such detail? What was shown in the first hour had to be presented in ten minutes and put the emphasis on what was shown in the second part of the film, because it is what pushes the thought at the end. In this case, the picture would still have a weak morality, but no one would dare to call it wrong in structure. In the end, I was completely infuriated that the creators never thought to give a normal explanation for why the film is called “The Place Under the Pines”. Yes, we are shown such a place, but it does not carry enough meaning to be a name. By the same logic, let’s call the Titanic “The Place Under the Moon,” and it was night at the end, wasn’t it?
I would like to note that the atmosphere and visual were not affected in the second part, but all this pales in the background of the absurdity that is happening. To be fair, the actors also tried, but what could they do if the writers did not want to sweat a little?
“A Place Under the Pines” for me is a weak film that gave very high hopes in the beginning, but something went wrong. He's wrong because he's got the basic idea wrong. I do not recommend wasting your time on it, because you will be very disappointed.
5 out of 10
I have known about this film for so long, but the desire to see it, why it arose today.
Luke Glanton is a stuntman and this skill earns a living. He meets his ex-girlfriend, Romina, and finds out that she has a son, Jason, with him. Luke wants the relationship back, but Romina is in a new relationship. Luke wants to participate in the life of his son and stays in the city, gets a job with the mechanic Robin, who offers him to rob a bank.
A film that deserves attention because it stars Ryan Gosling, talented, beautiful, all the films with his participation are good. The plot of the film is interesting, it is divided into two parts, the first part is the story of the lives of parents, the second story of the lives of their children.
Each actor in the film is gorgeous and for this, thank you to the casting director for the quality of the cast selection:
The only thing I disagree with is that Gosling doesn't have much time in the film. But even during this time, you have time to feel sympathy for the character, and even enter his situation and treat his actions with understanding.
A separate admiration is caused by the game of Bradley Cooper, he is given the main role in the film, and he coped with it with dignity, his character causes ambiguous emotions at the beginning, but in the future his actions begin to admire, and in the future he begins to cause sympathy.
Eva Mendes, honestly, I am not a fan of her, and I haven’t seen many films with her participation, but here she looks very harmonious, and it’s nice to see her on the screen paired with Gosling, they are very cute. I want to celebrate its natural beauty.
Dane DeHaan is given the main role in the second part of the film. He is shown to us small at first and already a teenager in the middle, that is, we can not know for sure whether his father was interested in his fate, but it is also interesting to observe and draw a parallel with his father.
I liked the movie because the scenes were too touching.
This is a really good movie, to watch which does not spare time.
10 out of 10
In my pyramid of needs there are only three things: food, sex and Gosling.
There are only three things in my pyramid of needs: food, sex and Gosling. I'm ready to have sex with a loaf of bread if Gosling.
Gosling is a motorcycle rider and rides a motorcycle accordingly. The image of a gopnik filled with partaces, with a sense of duty to his newborn son. All the bitches will start wetting their underpants. But wait, wait, he's also a criminal. A dangerous handsome man who loves his son. This is the only flashing moment in the film. It seems that the color of the characters prescribed either a down or a child. Everything else is just a tower, a script, a plot, of course, the plot, this is the most important thing.
Be sure to recommend for viewing with a stretcher, a lot of snot yes, but competent snot, good snot. Drama and realism throughout the film, and if you didn’t know, check out how cool Gosling sings. A PA PA POWER song, for example.
For a long time I wanted to get acquainted with this tape, but there were various doubts, either everything will happen monotonously, or I will not be able to understand everything fully. Fortunately, the picture was good, and quite successful. It is quite unusual to see on the screen a non-standard component, divided into three stories: the story of a racer, the life of a policeman, the life of the son of a racer. I like the story of the driver the most, I wish it didn’t end at all. The story of the policeman is interesting in its own way, because the main character has to cope with himself psychologically, overcoming a difficult past, simultaneously dealing with his partners (who have dirty affairs). After the driver, his son’s story was very appealing. Jason has his assertive character, learning the important things about his father, for the hero comes a difficult turning point, at which he needs to make the right decision for himself, which will affect him in a huge way.
I liked the acting. Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper qualitatively performed the images of their heroes, revealed in full, attract attention to themselves. I also want to note the high level of Ben Mendelsohn (aka director of Krennick "Rogue 1") and Dane DeHaan (Valerian) - the characters are also quite interesting.
The Place Under the Pines is a 2012 psychological drama with elements of crime. Bright film, filled with depth and meaning, in which you can think about the realities of life in all its glory. For lovers of strong and independent dramas, this picture is just right.
8 out of 10
The story of the film begins when skilful motorcycle racer Luke (Ryan Gosling) learns that he has a one-year-old son with a girlfriend with whom they were “just having fun.” He changes his life for the sake of his son and, trying to prove his ability to care for the family, begins to rob banks. And he encounters a selfless police officer, Avery (Bradley Cooper), who also has a young son.
Watching the plot gradually unfold in “The Place Under the Pines” is a real pleasure. There are already a huge number of paintings and thousands of plot moves in the world - it is natural that one story in films becomes not enough for us. In the new film by Derek Sienfranc, who became famous for “Valentine” with the same Gosling and Michelle Williams, there are three stories. The film was expected to be similar to Nicholas Winding Röfn’s Drive, simply because Gosling was driving there. But the non-linear, jump-starting plot of "Places Under the Pines" is much more like the dramatic twists of "American History X."
A huge plus "Places under the pines" - in contemplation and slowness of action. The film is 140 minutes long, and none of them seems superfluous. Modern films, in general, immediately break from place to quarry, afraid to fall behind the rhythm of jaws chewing popcorn. The plot and characters from this are fast, jerky. The real heroes are calm and slow. So “The Place Under the Pines” creates thorough, psychologically subtle characters, which the film reveals gradually.
The brilliant actors fully met their expectations. The audience, of course, wanted Ryan Gosling "like in Drive," but here his character is much more complex, ambiguous and lively. On the set, they say that Gosling and Eva Mendes began their relationship – and it seems true: such a “chemistry” between them in the frame! Bradley Cooper, on the other hand, gives one of the most striking roles in his career: a man of firm and determined, but at the same time - with the notorious internal rottenness, a wormhole - "rebellious." In addition, the film lit up a wonderful second actor Ben Mendelsohn, who played the charismatic and memorable partner of Luke on robberies.
“A Place Under Pine trees” is an impossible beautiful, magnetically shot film about the twisted arc of the consequences of what was done and about the place in the world. According to the plan, the film clashes worldviews almost like that of R.P. Warren: one tries to make good out of evil, “because there is nothing else to do with it”; the other with furious inevitability goes to this. Motives mirror and lead to understanding; and to understand is to assume that you too could. They say you can’t do anything, and you have to answer for every action, in the sense that it will affect our life trajectory. But if so, there is nothing to fear to live, and nothing to regret, because all actions are blood from the blood of ourselves and our place in the world.
10 out of 10
If you fly like lightning, you will crash with thunder.
The Place Under the Pine trees is the fifth feature film by American film director Derek Sienfrancs. Triptych film in a criminal-dramatic frame. It was first shown at the Toronto Film Festival in 2012, where it immediately received a large number of positive reviews and reviews. And coming out in 2013 in general rental, was subsequently listed in the top ten best films of the year.
“The Place Under the Pines” is a completely simple, but no less attractive story, raising very important and profound questions. This is the story of a simple guy, a motorcycle racer, who suddenly found out that he has a son and is trying to be with his child and become a good father for him. Refusing to continue touring the cities with his stunt program, Luke Glanton (one of the main characters of the picture) decides to stay and cares for his new family, which, by the way, already has a worthy replacement for Luke in the person of Kofi Kenkam - the character of Mahershalalhashbaz Ali. Of course, by all laws, both life and genre, and for lack of a decently paid job, Luke cannot provide for a child properly. Seeing no other way out of the situation, he decides to accept Robin’s offer to rob a bank. Which subsequently leads a stunt racer to a fateful encounter with police officer Avery Cross. The surname of which, in turn, is more than a symbolic allegory, denoting from the English word “cross”. After all, at the point of this fateful meeting, both the fates of Luke and Avery and the fates of their future generations intersected irrevocably.
Structurally, the plot of the picture is divided into three equal, interconnected stages, telling about the lives of three different people. This form of presentation looks non-trivially exciting and to some extent, even innovative and unusual. Especially surprising is the transition from the first to the second part of the narrative, which, even a sophisticated viewer, at first, can lead to a feeling of mild stupor.
In the course of the plot, Derek Cienfrancs raises questions about the relationship between human destinies, the value of life and its cyclicality, the continuity of generations, the cost of human sacrifice. And also in a moderately restrained form, the problem of imitating children to their fathers.
In addition to a well-developed script, a complete immersion in history contributes to wonderful acting work. Sometimes it seemed that in front of me are not well-known actors, and real people with their real problems. Separately, I want to highlight Bradley Cooper, who plays a confident and unscrupulously persistent, ready to go over his head for his own benefit, outside, but tormented by conscience and struggling in doubt, a rotting police officer, from the inside. It's one of his best roles. Dane Dehan and Ryan Gosling also presented very decent, interesting and confident performances. And the latter once again proved that he is capable of both comedic and highly dramatic roles. The second plan in the person of Eva Mendes, Ben Mendelssohn, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and others, can also hardly be reproached for unprofessionalism in relation to the first, unless, of course, especially take into account the fact of the duration of their roles.
The film was made quite simply. Sean Bobbitt (operator) does not please us with any incredible landscapes, long and long-range plans or aesthetically verified, centered shots. But it's not necessary. After all, Sean shows a completely personal story, creating a chamber atmosphere of the melancholy of life. Which also contributes to the extremely organic soundtrack of composer Mike Patton, whose main theme - "The Snow Angel" will long lull your restless mind with cold and dark evenings. And the scene of a joint photo of Luke, Romina and their son will firmly settle in your head.
“The Place Under the Pines” is a great example of endless controversy on the subject. This is an incredibly uplifting film that can breathe bright colors into the grayness of routine everyday life. Cinema is not for everyone, but for everyone. This is a film about people and the lives of these people in a world of endless sacrifice, suffering and the search for happiness. In a world where everyone wants to find their place under the pine trees.
8 out of 10
The film and its story after watching sank into the soul, and you immediately realize that our earth is round, and everything you have done in the past, bad or good, it will return to you.
The film was shot perfectly at a height, the actors liked the game, a little bit I personally did not have enough action exactly dramatic action, it was possible to reveal the characters more strongly and show more experiences, as well as in the most important scenes I wanted more and more drama and excitement (a little did not finish).
The whole story beckons and draws the film with every minute I want to watch and see what will happen next. In short, the film was a success, Dane DeHaan and Ryan Gosling in general class, the rest could and better!
I advise everyone who has not watched necessarily watch, but a small caveat film is still not for everyone, a film peculiar to a person who does not like films about life and relationships in this world, it is better not to include, you will not master it.
8 out of 10
Tags: The underside of heroism. The birth of a legend. Father's conscience. Heredity. Fate. Generations from bikers-robinguds and cynics-tired romantic lawyers to sons-burners of life.
Boy-motorcyclist Luke (Ryan Gosling), traveling with the circus around the towns and villages, returning to one of them, learns that he had a son. But the mother of the child (Eva Mendes) now lives with a respectable Negro (I must say that very kind and compliant) and does not require anything from the father of the child. But he is already getting used to the role of a caring parent and for the sake of the future child enters into an adventure with a bank robbery.
It so happens (ironically) that on this way he gets a policeman who becomes a hero (obligatory?) and who also has a son.
And after 15 years, their sons cross paths.
Derek Seyenfranc's triptych did not cause much excitement - it was painfully quietly passed through spring cinemas, when no one was particularly waiting for revelations from the repertoire - the drama season, starting in December, safely ends around April and the summer viewer relaxed in a chair, under popcorn and coke becomes a child. And there is not much about adulthood, but also about fatherhood!
True, Syenfranc disguises the dramatic plot as an action movie, then a police thriller, and at the end the action is completely blown away to the drama of growing up. But it's a speed trap programmatically. Like the birth of the legend of Robin Hood. If one appeared next to us, it is far from certain that he would be a hero, but time has left us only his nobility. In fact, this was the hero of Ryan Gosling - a modern antihero who became almost Robin Hood. Only here his slogan did not live-was Robin Hood - took from the rich, and gave to the poor. He's got it all. Syenfrance in the first part sculpts a slightly worn, but colorful legend about a actually selfless, albeit overtaken in the game with fate, a child. The spirit of bikerism of the 80s is dissected in the “Place under the pines” from brutal to romantic.
The legend ends, though not with a wedding, and then life begins. Not devoid of ideals, the policeman (part-time son of a major local lawyer) turned his life wrong there, as if stealing the life of a biker, and there is no way back. Only the pain of fatherhood remains.
The final part finally turns the fate of the sons of one of the fathers into a parent of evil, and the other into a legend.
Sienfranc directs a kind of attenuation of the rhythm of plot intrigue from a story that leaves reflections of adventure, through the intrigue (thriller) of police crime, to the theme of initiation and family conflicts.
Another interesting topic: dim in terms of heroics and bright in terms of shooting modernity (I think it was laid by the script) in comparison with the adventurous past. And a strange mystical father-son relationship, acquiring not the traditional opposition of biology-education, but going somewhere in the third dimension, and then completely into loneliness. We must pay tribute not only to Ryan Gosling, who takes the audience full of crazy charisma, but also to Bradley Cooper, who does not have to play a role so often, and here he is forced to live a double life - a successful lawyer-politician and a martyr of conscience.
The finale sends the sons into the circle of fate, but clearly faded, as one reviewer noted - like an old photo covered with folds and cracks ...
This film was the first Derek Sienfrens movie I ever watched.
After watching the trailer, which was the statement ' best film of the year according to the Daily Telegraph' I did not put off in a long box, decided to watch the film itself.
And this is what I saw there:
The plot can be called non-trivial: motorcyclist Luke Landon (Ryan Gosling), who lived in freedom, learning that he has a child from a long-time acquaintance suddenly changes his lifestyle. Now the meaning of his existence becomes the son. He's not rich, but he's willing to do anything to see his son grow up happy. In the end, he decides to break the law in order to see his child. In the end, he becomes little, and he, acting without a partner, falls into the field of view of the police, who subsequently pursue him. The luck of catching a woeful criminal smiles at police officer Avery (Bradley Cooper), who kills Luke, and then spoils the life of his child and the mother of the child, taking the last thing Landon left behind.
15 years later, ironically, sons Luke and Avery cross paths. AJ, the son of a police officer and now a district attorney, Avery, a typical ' major ' who needs only entertainment and drugs from life, meets a newcomer Jason at school, who turns out to be the son of a murdered motorcyclist. Jason would do anything to find out about his father. He finds an old friend who tells him everything about his father, including the name of the killer. And now he's willing to do anything to get to Avery. ..
Actors are amazing. Gosling, as always, is inimitable. He was able to convey all the feelings of his hero Luke Landon - fear of robbery, shame for his incompetence, willingness to give everything for his son. And Bradley Cooper on 'hura' coped with the role of soft-bodied, cowardly, but ambitious careerist Avery, who put work above everything, even his own family.
The picture looks very easy, the plot is exciting, it is impossible to come off!
The finale is predictable, but this is no less effective.
The Place Under the Pines is a very firmly staged crime drama with huge food for the mind. It took a long time to watch. Derek Cienfrancs so deeply conveyed the feelings of the characters that you involuntarily begin to put yourself in their place. In the film, Sienne very interestingly laid the line in the attitude of fathers to their children, as well as touched upon such problems as honor and conscience. As for acting, it is at the highest level Ryan Gosling is a unique actor. It would seem that visually his characters from different films are little different from each other. Little emotional face, absolutely bottomless eyes and amazing coolness almost throughout the tape. However, watching him, you do not see an actor, but a real person for whom you have amazing compassion. Bradley Cooper reflected in his character a large part of society, which hides behind a very attractive and perhaps even heroic appearance of real freaks, moral and psychological. This is definitely one of the best roles in his career. Otherwise, we have a very smoothly twisted personal drama. Where each of the characters is revealed on the screen most spectacularly and where the fate of one hero depends entirely on the other. Thus, only emphasizing that the earth is round and small, which means that life can not only bring us together often, but also give an opportunity to influence the lives of these people. The creators acted unexpectedly and famously showing the story of one of the characters of the tape in the first half of the picture, and then unexpectedly, but smoothly passing the baton to another on-screen hero several times. Only linking all this into a single picture closer to the end. At the same time, it bribes the objectivity of the creators in relation to the screen characters. That allows you to empathize with screen characters and condemn them at the same time.
I hope that everyone who sees this masterpiece will find something good, something instructive. The director chose a slightly unusual production: the characters and events change over the course of the film, life changes... and you live this life in two hours of the session. You won't regret watching. This film makes you think about a lot.
The film was neither good nor bad. It's just there, Such films should be.
It is quite long and can even seem painful.
I won’t spoil it, many have already done it. I was surprised by everything that happened after Gosling left. This plot ending, the lines, I thought it would end much sooner.
Gosling is one of the reasons why I paid attention to this film. And he's always irresistible, a good performance by a great actor. His hero can be condemned, do not understand how you can go on robberies and then not be able to stop in time. Until each of us is in this situation, we cannot say what we would do if we simply wanted to be a good parent to our child. It's hard and it's life.
The second reason I wanted to see this movie. An ordinary cop who fights his way up. At the same time, his spiritual, gravitation, experiences are shown, which as if separates him from the layer of other police scum, and makes him a more positive character. I don’t know who he is, everyone will decide for themselves. He was more human than all his 'friends' and that earned me a positive attitude. A man who repents and who did not meet the fate of his son Luke, but he received another gift - his son.
Everything you do comes back to you sooner or later, I think about this story.
I also want to praise the work of videographers, and thank you for the music. Mike Patton's main theme, The Snow Angel, is still in my head and will be associated with retribution and everyone's fate.
The film is worth watching, everyone will find something in it. It's not about the turbulent, it's not about showing you something you've never seen before, it's about the story of a few people whose fates are not intertwined in the best way.
When you fly like lightning, you fall like thunder.
Watching “Valentine”, you can immediately assume the creative path of Derek Sienfrancs: he likes family dramas, the history of which affects both the past and the present. From “Valentine” to the next film, the director migrated only Ryan Gosling, but Sienfrancs was not confused and paired him with another big Hollywood star – Bradley Cooper. Their wives were also played by very successful women - Eva Mendes and Rose Byrne, and the sons got Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen - guys just beginning their ascent to world success.
Cienfrancs did not write such a plot for the actors that from the first minutes seemed exclusively Hollywood. The drama could turn out to be pathetic, emasculated, faked to the requirements of the viewer, intentionally enhanced emotionally. And yet the director's intentions were different, so that before us quite calm, everyday, not pretending to "Oscars" story, which at first glance does not carry anything in itself, but an interesting form.
Three acts. The first is about a biker trying to make money by bank robberies for a better life for his son and beloved girl, who became a wife to someone else. The biker doesn't give up. Having set foot on a slippery path, he is no longer able to stop. The second is about an honest police officer with big ambitions and, again, good intentions leading to hell. His life path is unexpectedly intertwined with the fate of the biker in a very tragic way, and even time is not able to fully resolve this conflict. The third is about the children of a biker and a police officer, who are destined to face the consequences of the past, and then make the most difficult choice in their lives - the choice of forgiveness.
As you can see, the form of presentation is very impressive. What Cienfrancs put into two hours of screen time, some writers or directors usually tell a lot of series, both book and television. Here we do not care about the detailed life of a bunch of heroes, from the first to the last degree of significance, because we already have several people whose actions will be turning points in the fateful spring of the common lot. The film clearly shows in chronological order how one wrong decision, supported by the postulate “I want the best at all costs”, and the series of careless actions that followed can create such a chain of crushing events that it will be possible to stop it only by stepping over yourself, breaking your own pride for the sake of peace.
Yes, this required exactly the proposed schematic rod. It was possible, for example, to leave only the present in the center of the narrative, immediately proceed to the third act, and show the entire past in long flashbacks, but ... why? Why come up with additional complexities and platitudes, when we have just been able to trace the whole hereditary path, without being distracted by extraneous things? This “Place under the pines” and bribes: life-affirming authenticity that does not go into the philosophical wilds for the sake of finding answers to important questions and dilemmas, since in itself is a strong question mark for the viewer, who will certainly during or after viewing find the answer not somewhere, but in his own soul.
It depends on the person. What we do now is already creating our future.
The Place Under the Pines is not a masterpiece, but a good, sound, atmospheric film that touches on important topics. At the moment, Derek Cienfrancs is preparing for the release of the first film adaptation based on the book original, and not on an independent script - "Light in the Ocean", another family drama, probably able to please us no less than the previous projects of this director.
Well, let's wait and hope for the best.
I’m not going to paint all the charms of this movie that many people have already done. I will touch on one question that I noticed only after revisiting and which does not give me peace.
It is very interesting to see the line between fathers and their children.
Luke, learning that he has a son, is ready to give up his career, give up an interesting life and fame and plunge into routine, remaining in a small town with no prospects for further life. For the sake of his son, he will do anything.
Avery, on the contrary, walks up the career ladder and does not see his son at all. The main thing is to get as far as possible.
The question is, who would be the best father to his son? A criminal who does this for his child. Or is it a police officer who, because of his career, cannot devote enough time to the family?
10 out of 10
"The Place Under the Pines" - this is the picture that I have long attempted, but my hands still do not reach normal to sit down and look, despite the fact that it involves three of my favorite actors - Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Dane DeHaan.
The film turned out to be a kind of symbiosis of "Drive" and "City of Thieves", seasoned with indie style. Although, the events described in the synopsis, this is only a small part of what is shown in the tape itself. Strange film, but it turned out not bad, not even bad.
The plot can be divided into three parts, such as three mini-stories, connected by a common storyline. But in general, this is the story of fathers and children; the film tells that what you did will one day come back as a boomerang and your children will have to pay for your sins.
Part 1 is the story of a biker who just wanted to be with his son, raise him, but the path he chose was not the best. Here completely shines Ryan Gosling, who successfully showed a closed motorcycle racer who tried to make his child not repeat his life.
Part 2 tells the story of a policeman who became a hero by preventing a series of robberies. A kind of mini-detective, about how one guy tries to cope with other guys like him, and what actually comes out of it. Bradley Cooper also managed to pull his part of the picture on himself, he played very well.
3rd part tells us about the children of the heroes Cooper and Gosling, about how fate confronts them in the most unimaginable way and what comes out of this. Perhaps this is the most emotional and best part of the film. The main star of this excerpt is Dane DeHaan, who perfectly played his character. It was the most interesting thing to watch. Emory Cohen was also not bad, although he did not reach the level of DeHaan.
The picture is quite everyday, well reflected life in the American outback. Many shots are sunny - the whole film is served in blue-green-yellow shades, which at times were diluted with the grayness of an ordinary household woman, which adds to the picture of special soulfulness and realism.
The soundtrack also collected melodic compositions Mike Patton and indie music tracks. The music gave the film its unique atmosphere. "Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)""
In the end, I can say that the film is soulful and interesting, albeit somewhat protracted. It has everything: a little romance, a little family drama, a little crime and much more, too.
7 out of 10
The subject of "Fathers and Children" by the Turgenev classic, plus a bit of "Casino Robbery" and a drop of "Drive," that's what Derek Sienfrancs' "Place Under the Pines" is, if you talk about the film in associations. In addition, it combines two types of cinema “male” (scenes of chase, shootouts) and “female” (love line) and asks about the meaning of the word “fate” in the sense of “as will backfire, and will respond.”
The plot tells us about stuntman Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) making a tour from one province to another, earning a living with tricks. At one of these shows, he meets Ramona (Eva Mendez), the love of his life, and then decides to quit his unsafe job and devote himself to family after the birth of his son. Only our hero suffers financial difficulties, and in order to somehow feed his family, he decides to go on a robbery of banks, using the skills of a stuntman (the tricks are excellent), and one minibus of his partner (Ben Mendelsohn). It all starts with a robbery, but ends completely different, moreover, in two hours of the film, the story reveals a lot, and does not focus on chases and shootings alone. The task of the director was to show the value of family relations, the bond of fathers and sons, and to say a little about politics, and about the injustice of police officers in relation to ordinary citizens.
As a result, I would like to say “Place under the pines” is an alternative version of movie sagas, like the same “Gone with the Wind”. Just for the place of classic interiors and stories about waiting for love, we have a yard, realistic picture of the boomerang of life, and that each of us can be under these very pines. Of course, the minuses could be called a little tightness, but the cast, warm so native to you, and this very soulfulness of the American outback smooths it all out. Moreover, the presence of Morricone’s music in the soundtrack leaves a good impression in memory, as if I saw not a film, but someone’s life full of both bad and good. And at the end of the day, you're like that little guy, you take a bike and you run against the wind at breakneck speed, you just fly. After all, then, probably, you will be happy - it is for this very feeling that I fell in love with "The Place Under the Pines."
When you fly like lightning, you fall like thunder.
Throughout my life I have watched a huge number of different films: from trivial and minute, to touching with deep meaning. Expecting a set of Hollywood stamps, I did not expect anything supernatural from the picture, and the prolonged duration did not inspire due optimism. However, immersed in a restrained saga about the lives of two families and their younger generations, I was able to wake up only to the final credits.
"Everyone is his own."
In the picture, three independent parts can be distinguished, each of which describes the difficult life path of several main characters: walking along the curve path "beautiful Luke" (Gosling), the guardian of the law Avery (Cooper) and their seventeen-year-old teenagers: Jason (DeHaan) and AJaAJa (Cohen>). The film is completely saturated with oppositions of characters against the background of the problem of fathers and children, perfectly presented by the director under a wonderful musical “sauce”. Humanity, material weakness, and Luke’s “bad” boyfriend’s willingness to commit a crime are pitted against lies, the power of the word of law, and Avery’s “good” boyfriend’s willingness to do anything to protect himself and his loved ones.
The way up must be earned.
A random event, a certain fateful turn completely changes the course of what is happening on the screen and twists into an arc, while preserving the flow of the old story and the search for each character’s place in the modern world. Jason just like his father “spins” in a closed sphere of his problems, experiences and deeds. Perhaps that is why among the pine trees, feeling power in his hands (which his father did not have), he made such a choice. Around every act shown and every word spoken, a fateful story is built, albeit a little protracted, but with a strong, vivid and sensual relationship between children and their parents.
Special thanks for the virtuoso musical accompaniment and chilling title theme. Probably, it was thanks to her that during the entire film, goosebumps were felt on the skin, tears rolled into the eyes, and an unbearable load lay in the soul, the aftertaste of which remained a certain sadness and sad sediment. Bravo!
What I saw on the screen touched my heart and touched certain strings. The Place Beyond The Pines is a film that will not please everyone, this film should be lived, realizing that in search of our "place under the pines" we are doing something unjust due to various circumstances and events, our own or someone else's arguments, greedy calculations or an inexplicable desire to turn around, which certainly leaves its imprint in the future.
I hope you find your place in the modern world.
The place under the pine trees. Without much enthusiasm, I started watching this movie, learning about it thanks to my friend and Bradley Cooper in the lead role. But after watching this movie, it became one of those that I can advise to watch.
It’s two hours, but those two hours fly by like a few moments when the story grabs you and doesn’t want to let go. With each subsequent frame, interest in the picture only grows, and the long time frame in which the action of the film takes place only suits him. The problem raised in the film is painfully familiar, but told in an interesting way on the example of the life story of stuntman Luke Glanton. We must be able to forgive and separate the light from the dark.
As soon as the story began to unfold before my eyes, I immediately knew that I liked him. Thanks to the writer for that. The operator - for the right, from the side of sensations, frames. Actors for their persuasive play (not everyone). Well, the director - for 2 hours of a good movie.
There's been a lot of good movies lately. The place under the pines is a worthy movie, which I will definitely recommend to all my friends.
We wanted drama, but it turned out a film almanac with a stretch
Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) is almost constantly on tour in different provinces. His profession is a stuntman. Speed is his life. But life is variability. And, one day, visiting another town with his performances, he meets an ex-girlfriend Ramina, who has a one-year-old baby, so similar to Luke. And then he decides to give up his career, stay in the city in order to provide for the life of his son. Gets a job with a local mechanic, who himself barely makes ends meet. But he offers a profitable business - to rob a bank. Which Luke actually agreed to. What did he do, he got into it! Naturally, this could not lead to anything good. This is what this crime drama is all about.
Ryan Gosling and Derek Cienfrancs met each other during the filming of the previous film Director “Valentine”. Then in 2007, the couple had the idea to make a movie about “cleaning” banks on a motorcycle. So the script began to be written and in 2012 the film “A Place Under the Pines” appeared. The name, of course, was chosen with a kind of intrigue. After reading the annotation to the picture, it seemed that everything would end with the hero crashing on a motorcycle, and his posthumous wreath hanging under a pine tree (and frankly, it was much more dramatic and interesting than what came out of the conveyor belt).
In fact, the movie can be safely divided into 3 parts, respectively, and 3 stories that go one after another. First, a crime with a dramatic bias (“making money” by Luke), then a dry drama (?) with criminal overtones (a cop denouncing colleagues) and a drama-drama-drama, during which we see the adult son (Dane DeHaan) of the same Luke. Well, how would his story was supposed to be the epic end of the whole mess, but it turned out that the first part could be finished. Although the appearance of Emory Cohen was pleased - well, he looks very much like Johnny Depp in the movie "Crying".
The picture came out chopped, not connected. It’s like a separate 3 mini-movie from which you could make a full-fledged. Many may argue that Cienfrancs in this way wanted to convey the emotional torment of the imaginary hero-cop (Bradley Cooper), and show how unpredictable can be the fate that brought the children of those whose parents changed each other’s lives forever. And so on and so forth. But even this does not justify how not harmonious the movie came out. And the ending didn't make you happy. It's kind of greased. I hinted at a kind of action - well, right now - and then "pooh!" and she's gone. Trouble...
In general, the movie, of course, for the amateur (in general, like any tape), but still not worth it. Although you can watch the first hours of the floor without regretting to turn off. It was there that the criminal drama exhausted itself and flowed into the director’s protracted reflections on what to do with it next.
4 out of 10
The place under the pines, in truth, brazenly manipulates the viewer by mistaking the father for his son. The themes are so worn out, but unfortunately poorly implemented in this picture. What can not be said about the first part of the film, the part in which I fell in love with the hero Gosling.
Luke Glenton is a professional stuntman who is burning his life on tour with a traveling circus, suddenly finds out that he has a child. At this point, Luke realizes the insignificance of his being and sets his life’s goal to the well-being of the child. To do this, he begins a risky game of robbing banks. Despite the banality of the tie, the film will surprise you with excellent acting, directing and of course the soundtrack, from which goosebumps run.
At the end of the story about Luke, the viewer is transferred to another touching, though not so strong story. Stories about an honest police officer Avery, who found himself in a very unpleasant situation due to his honesty, risking finding his place under the pines ahead of time.
The final part of the story is banal and stupid. The implausibility of this part is just skyrocketing, so for me, The Place Under the Pine trees became a first-hour movie, sort of a picture with beautiful contours but bad colors inside. I definitely recommend watching this movie. At least to see that the most important thing in our lives are children. No matter how bad a father is, he never stops being a father to his child.
Beginning as an arthouse fast-moving teenage action story, the film in the course of the development of history - not even events - turns first into a household drama of conscience with a claim to realism, and then smoothly rolls into an indie-crime road thriller of medium dirtiness. It is a rare case when three different genres collide in the cinema, which no one even tries to weld together, because the picture successfully goes on the story itself. It’s all about balance – if the plot is not strong enough, then more attention is paid not to the design, but to the efforts to digest this weak plot well. Here the style is more than enough, the design is worked out in great detail, but the gluing between the parts is practically absent. A new story like a snake emerges from its old skin, leaving previous events in the hopeless past and never turning to the final scenes. It seems as if a trough of ice water is poured into your face, but you still stand satisfied because you have been stuffed with drama, and melodrama, and social, and motives of revenge and hatred, and even all sorts of subtexts from sexual to musical.
The first part. Depressingly fashionable.
Ryan Gosling in his repertoire drags along from the well-known "Drive" and "Only God will forgive" the manner of shooting, the manner of playing, clothes, his stone face and the train of unflagging despair. White-haired, striving to be better than he is, like Piero, but instead of a tear under his eye he has a sword and a drop of blood - a good interpretation? The image of Luke, of course, is carved in stone: he is not forgotten throughout the film, and even though other people take his place after drinking it, the viewer goes on with an eye on him. However, Luke is a noble idiot, but he is also a romantic and a robber. Fifteen years from now, in 2012, no one will have such glaring aloofness, naive bravery and the hard-headed shortsightedness. However, this is Luke, the character who opens the film with very strong scenes and sets the mood and gives drama, which then justifies the cruelty of the next characters for years to come.
The second part, in which the viewer "grows up" and returns to the real world.
Where is the injustice, the greed of the police, the cowardice of Romina, who is aging from all this star before the time. Here comes Bradley Cooper, who is uniquely able to play little mean people. At the same time, in my opinion, his hero is condemned a little more than necessary. Ray Liotta appears for seven minutes overall and remains a hefty colored spot in this bud of mud, the indecision Cross exudes. His wife is a separate song: neither sleep nor spirit about anything, and therefore is the only normal person in this madness. Some moments are not even as much exaggerated as it usually happens in the movies: in police lawlessness this time there is no unmotivated violence, for example.
The third part is modern and seemingly unworked, because dirty water from someone’s underwear is squeezed into it. Dane DeHaan's stoned eyes and crumpled party illustrations - it's a good thing it was at the end and in small numbers, because I prefer the loud peeling piano and the pale green pine trees. Here everything is already unfolding quickly, because the viewer is a little tired, waiting for the end of this hassle - and we quickly introduce Jason, who grew into an exact copy of his father. Here's one in one: the same disorientation in life, which is not bad at all, but poetic; the same strangeness in view. He is drawn into the past, he drags through life like a carcass with his legs torn off, and he does not understand why. The mother, squeezed by the whole story because she has a double sense of guilt, also aggravates the situation, not explaining to the child why he is so lousy and wants to go to the woods. And the child is just all in his dad, who has chosen to ride a motorcycle in a huge iron ball! Naturally, he is everywhere pressed and everything itches in this banal house, a banal family. He has a wolf heart and an owl spirit.
So, the place under the pines is like Santa Barbara in a very, very good way. It looks like an almanac. There are a lot of regrets about the heroes, in particular, about such eternal vagrants as Luke and his son. They spend their lives looking for where they hurt and where they puff up, not realizing that nature has made them so: lost, alien and too fragile.
8 out of 10