CARNIVALE
Carnivale is a fascinating series, with a beautiful aesthetic, reminiscent of Steinbeck's narrative, and like most fiction that captivates me is a hybrid multidimensional social
Reflection on the tough Depression-era American narrative of the fantastic and mythical, historical document, tragedy, epic, all tempered by a visual extremely carefully, with a color palette that favors the sepia and earth tones in the manner of old photographs (which gives a unique visual look very beautiful) and a dreamlike tone and evocative than ever avoids the sordid and terrible in his speech, which sometimes leads us into the realm of those nightmares from which you fail to awaken and become something oppressive and strange (for example in the magnificent episode of Babylon ), with a careful staging, a schedule full of amazing drawings and magical unusual force, a dazzling production design and very detailed, including a subtly beautiful soundtrack, simply captivating ... ...
series Carnivale is always had wanted to see, somehow the story of a mythical journey through a land almost dead, a convoy of foreign sliding down a dying world, where evil men become the salvation of the desperate, and where men good are persecuted, has been always waiting to be told. Carnivale
not easily exhaust their meanings, or their reflections. The reference film
most immediate and serious Todd Browning Freaks , but it shares the visual environment, not the optics, as in Browning's film of the carnival people are "strangers os " seeking to be respected in their uniqueness (although in the end prove to be like others in its worst aspects) and unlike the one where the "strange" comes from the "normal" by subjecting them to brutal ostracism, Carnivale characters are paradigmatic of the human, not the "strange", but on the contrary, shows the fragile, complex and vulnerable, in a boo ; Search constant, since as all sorts of travel, not just a trip abroad American geography is Biblical, but also an inner journey ...
(this is something they share some of my favorite series, not only Carnivale, or Galactica or Supernatural where foreign travel is a reflection of the inner journey, but in general most of the series where he takes a personal journey of discovery and redemption often)
Catch from the first chapter (well, at least in my case), although the pace is slow in the first part of the first season, he will take the body as it progresses, its iconography is clear, nothing convoluted, and very evocative, with very little spread much, creating a story halfway between the social portrait (sometimes it works almost like a visual document, showing all the harshness and misery of a time and place where it was very easy to believe that the devil was incarnated in the world), psychological and archetypal, which are perhaps the best characters I've ever seen built, or nearly ... ... ... .
could not stop to praise this series, but I think that I was halfway through the first season when I bought the full pack I made it clear that my passion for it, but after seeing an episode like Babylon I knew I would love this series as much as its level drops, and the fact but it did not go spilling my expectations, and very high from the pilot (I have rarely felt this excited to see a pilot, a feeling that will take me far away and the pleasure of anticipation because felt it would be a memorable trip ... ... ...)
's story Carnivale is neither easy nor simple, dares to dive in complex human emotions in a profound way and no moralist, I attract a lot of these stories are not afraid to dive into obscure and complex aspects of human nature, almost always the best.
The backdrop, which is progressively revealed as the main stage, is an ancestral and mythic struggle between two opposing forces that are confused and over again until converging on
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sophie, which becomes the omega, the end of everything and therefore the beginning, a new kind of avatar you start a new era and set point and followed a history that can not be final but perhaps she enters a new level of meaning ...
Although the final conclusion so open in fact, had not made the final choice of Sofie inevitable the series would finish with a final appearance also open but closed in brilliant fashion history (in the manner of a final brilliant open like Angel ), placing it as an eternal battle that inevitably will never end, but the character poses Sofie a series of questions that leave the story at the start of something new, at least cost me to conclude that she was the daughter of Justin and not of Scudder as I suggested the image of rape her mother as well as the iconographic signs placed it as a new avatar of the dark, I even believe that it was the daughter of Russian, Apollonia attempt to kill me convinced that it was Scudder's daughter and was so evocative that she and Ben were brothers, light and dark twin and opposite, and the scene that was full of symbols lie about it, which is supported in part but lost in my opinion some symbolism to reveal who her father is ...
the end she was the omega, the end of the battle, able to heal as Ben but with the power of what the situation Justin halfway, despite the visions that told him that was in the wrong place, and the fact that revives the dead prophet of his house, when the succession would occur if you kill, besides that apparently the bloodline becomes avatar in men and not women ...
What is the character of Sofie could lead to a whole new season, the final decision Sofie to know if it's not really free because its dark side seems to have overtaken her, but we have seen that Scudder found a way to destroy their identity and give up its role and even Justin tried to get away from your destination, and in any case, Sofie has a destiny to fulfill? Because it seems to have come to destroy the employer, not to confirm, contrary to Justin and Ben, she has no role in writing and may change the rules, is an anomaly, and as such is the uncertainty ...
The possibilities for plot development in that are endless and fascinating sense, and yet I can overcome intrigued by the possibilities that end but emotionally is what hurts me the most is the final cancellation of Jonesy, too unfair after all the suffering of the character I can not accept just die like that so absurd, after the terrible punishment he suffers unjustly and rescue in extremis Ben, Libby punishment of waiting, the endless pain of Rita Sue, (that big this woman!) the tremendous death is too unfair to me and unbearable, I need to say goodbye to them leaving together trying to cling to some hint of happiness however ephemeral it may be, but it is a pessimistic picture, after a long road of pain and search Jonesy die at the hands of the idealized woman is unnecessary, the hopelessness of the series in general not justified ... END SPOILERS
tend to mention is Twin Peaks and Lynch to talk about this series, but surely the number of Lynch was a way on the Carnivale passes, what they really have in common is Anderson, who played the dwarf dancing Samson in the first and in this case, and although they share the tone of dreams, Carnivale parodic tone lacks the other, as well as his unsettling portrayal of everyday people viewed from a perspective almost delirious.
Carnivale historical film is almost classic in its own way of telling, and a clear symbolism, and nothing tricky, far removed from the set of Lynch, playing with the viewer, Carnivale keys that provide step by step along with a visual iconography which translates directly into the plot, are the opposite, the story takes a while to fit all their pieces, but when you start the second season and have the whole story in your hands,
SPOILERS removing perhaps to least in my case, the surprise about who was the real father of Sophie , END SPOILERS
The struggle between the avatars, their eternal struggle full of religious icons as well as repetitive signs and symbols is nothing confusing and in fact this perfectly proportioned to the fortunes vital members of that Carnivale of lost souls who nevertheless are more awake than all those workers who live in poverty, or those who survive the madness, all easily manageable for the priest (whose words seduce the hearts by talking about strength and power to the hopeless longings impossible).
But the strength of the series lies mainly in a gallery of amazing, especially the family of the weak father, constantly cheated himself, who sells your family for pennies, this amazing woman, fragile and strong, halfway between the heroine and villain, a character that makes astounding in its depth, absolutely tragic, or daughters vulnerable, exposed to abuse and humiliation, especially Libby, the girl who grows step by step, dreaming of something different, to end his life by joining a good man, the man that his mother would see her father.
Jonesy, a good man, and integrated, it almost seems a recreation of the character of Glen Ford The Grapes Of Wrath , the John Ford film , that kind of honest man who is the quintessential American hero, strong, noble and hard, with a heart of gold and buried much tenderness, not coincidentally the real heart of the fair, since it is he and his men who are responsible for keeping it going every night, keeping its structure up to very little.
Carnivale is at last a lifetime trip, an experience that goes beyond the usual on television.
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