{"id":8223,"date":"2014-12-01T05:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/responsive.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:29:54","slug":"trash-a-review-by-daniel-janks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/movie-reviews\/trash-a-review-by-daniel-janks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash : A movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director\u00a0Stephen Daldry
\nWriter \u00a0\u00a0Richard Curtis
\nCast \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Rooney Mara,\u00a0Martin Sheen,\u00a0Wagner Moura<\/p>\n

AGE RESTRICTION: [?]<\/h2>\n

This is a movie about kids, but it isn’t a kids movie. There’s nothing major to freak out a young adult, but it’s def not for the kiddie-winkles.<\/p>\n

Bottom Line<\/h2>\n

Loved it! It’s just a great film. Exciting, interesting, scary, suspenseful, satisfying, and full of colour and character. It’s an art film, because it’s mostly in Portuguese and because it’s way different from most of what Hollywood churns out, but that is its greatest strength.<\/p>\n

Plot<\/h2>\n

After finding a discarded wallet on the trash dump that they scavenge for a living, three boys embark on a quest to solve the mystery it contains and right the wrongs that delivered it into their hands. Helped by a wayward priest and a foreign English teacher they take on the city’s most powerful “…because it is right.”<\/p>\n

Acting<\/h2>\n

If you’ve seen some of the other\u00a0movies that have come out of Rio De Janeiro in the past few years, films like\u00a0City of God,\u00a0City of Men\u00a0(actually a TV miniseries),\u00a0Elite Squad\u00a0and\u00a0Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, then you’ll know that their actors are amazing, bringing a vitality and realism to the screen seldom seen amongst the Hollywood sheen. Trash is no exception. All the performances are gritty and enthralling. Amazing since many of them are delivered by children. The three leads of the film are no older than 15 and they are all brilliant. The adults in the film all hold their own with the kids, from the saintly Jose Angelo to the scariest cop in Rio, all are breathtaking. The cast is rounded out, for a little punch, by Hollywood greats\u00a0Rooney Mara, and\u00a0Martin Sheen, who are both their usual brilliant selves. It’s worth seeing for the performances\u00a0alone.<\/p>\n

Directing and writing<\/h2>\n

This is where things get a little weird. All the films I mentioned above are helmed and made by local Brazillians. Their films are\u00a0intensely and intrinsically linked to their locales and their environments, embodying and encapsulating the frenetic energy and pulse of Rio and Brazil. Something that feels like it could only be done by a local. But apparently not, Trash accomplishes this to\u00a0no lesser degree. But it is directed by British director\u00a0Stephen Daldry, known for films like Billy Elliot, The Hours,\u00a0The Reader\u00a0and\u00a0Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. All very different films to Trash.\u00a0But Daldry doesn’t disappoint. The film is racey and pacey and full of life. The small moments are as powerful as the big ones and the characters are deeply seductive.<\/p>\n

The writing delivers another knock to the head surprise.\u00a0Richard Curtis\u00a0has previously penned films like\u00a0Notting Hill,\u00a0Bridget Jones’s Diary,\u00a0Love Actually,\u00a0About Time, to mention a few. HE THE BRITISH ROM-COM GUY! Well not this week aparently because here he’s written a taut and compelling action\/drama\/thriller in Portuguese. And done it as well as he’s done anything.<\/p>\n

So<\/h2>\n

This is a great film. It’s something a little different, and that’s why you should see. That and the fact that it’s brilliant.<\/p>\n

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