Those of us who give so much importance to the Bible as a book nowadays?
Well, I would say that not even the same class as ecclesiastical would do what Eli, the protagonist of the film (Denzel name in Washington), has thirty years in the post-apocalyptic earth in which it was found because of a war the last war.
Before watching this film you must eliminate any kind of association with other films such as the setting or who are still a very bright future for our humanity.
Thirty years ago that broke the last war, which caused a hole in the sky and let the sun come down, this is what you tell the survivors.
This was the cause of death of nearly all humanity. The few left alive, they kill their own kind for a pair of shoes or for the mere sake of it.
The journey of this man, not a messiah, but a way to give humanity a glimmer of light in the darkest era that has not ever seen, it is fascinating to the point that the viewer almost wants to become the protagonist himself or at least help to bring this long-term and arduous task.
The treasure that Eli is so jealously guards and delivers a book, the last copy left on earth: a Bible of King George.
His antagonist, What he could not miss, is played by Gary Oldman, who is one of the last people of that culture remained alive and who knows the real power that a book like the Bible can have on a mass of people without culture and desperate.
One of the scenes that struck me, to pray together with Eli sees a girl named Solara (Mila Kunis), which is still amazed by the beauty of the words of Psalm 22
( Il Signore è il mio pastore:
non manco di nulla;
su pascoli erbosi mi fa riposare,
ad acque tranquille mi conduce.
Mi rinfranca, mi guida per il giusto cammino,
per amore del suo nome.
Se dovessi camminare in una valle oscura,
not fear no evil: for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff comfort
they comfort me.)
believing that he was to write the same Eli ...
What the Hughes Brothers wanted to convey, is that the vera fine della nostra civiltà avverrà proprio quando la cultura che abbiamo ottenuto in millenni di storia andrà completamente persa.
Regia: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Michael Gambon, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones
Genere: Azione, Thriller, Colore
Production: Alcon Entertainment, Silver Pictures, USA, 2010
Distribution: 01 Distribution
Release Date: February 26 2010
PS The link to watch the film Book of Eli streaming you will not find, because not only illegal, but because such a film must look in a room adequate.
Domenico Presutto
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