The Soloist (The Soloist)

Joe Wright, 2009
The argument of this movie is summed up in few lines: A journalist interpreted by Robert Downey Jr boy looking for histories for his column and one day finds a street musician with mental problems (Jamie Foxx) to the one who tries to help while it finds out the history after his problems, but, mmmmmm: a moment!: do we go so far as to find out the history after his problems?, since they hear, I believe that not. So many flashback where it seems that big revelations go to be done to us and these never come, so for this side of the argument disappointment to the singing. Skylight that another thing is the history of this relation that starts of way interested on the part of a journalist who tries to exploit his find, then to feel the need to do things for his alone indigent friend to realize that this one the only thing that he wants his friendship is. Certainly, devastating the words of the publisher of the newspaper (a wasted Catherine Keener) encouraging the use of anonymous protagonists then to leave wire drawing.
The movie keeps back well thanks to the big interpretations of Downey Jr and Foxx that personages very elaborated create but come up the course of the plot we wonder which is the history that they want to tell us, because when it seems that the focus is the capture of conscience on the problems of the mad homeless, it turns out that they try to us to strain a goal of personal overcoming, and when two protagonists fight and reconcile, it seems to us to be before a dessert telefilm.
- "The soloist" and family before beginning his flipada (and ours) -
It is curious because the movie allows to be seen and he even would say that it contains brilliant moments (the meetings in the tunnel of the freeway, these concerts at which the protagonists are present...) in addition to being provided with a few actors that alone they bear the tape, but these irritants flashbacks that do not contribute absolutely anything and the mentioned absence of direction does that there is diluted a proposal that it might have gone a long way more. A really curious moment is this "visualization" of as the Foxx personage "sees" the music: During three minutes only we see colors flashes moving to the Beethoven rhythm in a visual creation that would not be out of tune in any movie setentera of hallucinogenic trips.
Evaluation: 6/10
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