Peter Lanzani returns to the big screen in the skin of Cyrus, a young sub30 that survives in the city. One morning, it will open the doors of a van in order to steal what you have inside. However, what looks like one vehicle like any other, is actually a trap, and someone who is out, has a plan. This is the argument of “4 x 4”, the film by Mariano Cohn (“illustrious citizen”), which offers a look different from a recurring theme: urban insecurity. What happens when the thief is caught? With what aim?
What seemed minutes task will become the nightmare of Cyrus. Peter Lanzani adds a new professional challenge to his career and his work deserves to be highlighted. After embarking on the profession of the hand of Cris Morena, he knew how to overcome with each character. And so we saw it. The revelation came with Pablo Trapero in “The Clan”, a film which also added detail to see Guillermo Francella in a police drama and with the plus of being based on a real case and not of the best known of the Argentine criminal history; nothing compared to the comedy, where was it recursively. In this film, Lanzani showed his talent for a complex character, which is worth mentioning, did great.
Continued betting marginal characters and thus became “A rooster to Asclepius”, where interpreted to Nelson, a young man from the province of Misiones, ending with the aim of finding his brother, face to face with the Pirates of asphalt and its leader. The performance of Lanzani becomes crucial. Praised by his manager as “the best of his generation” are encouraged to different – what you can already see from visual aesthetics: as your cut hair – and with talent, gets on the skin of a young man to reaffirm that “no kid born Jet”. The same space as a location would hit?
The film is filmed in one space, which varies between the interior of the 4 x 4 (used three trucks to achieve what you see in the film) and the outside of a neighborhood that is not identified, so that it could be any of the city of Buenos Aires , or a capital.
Three trucks were used to generate the film far involve a challenge for filmmakers, they saw him as a fortress. Thus instructed by Gerardo Rozín, one of the producers. And it should be noted, that the pace of the film is well done and is not tedious to see the character in the same space in almost every scene. We recall, moreover, that successful films were only recorded in a space as “Unknown perfect” and “Opportunists”, among many more. Live locked: paradox of protection and insecurity the beginning of the film is well significant. Grilles, security cameras, wiring, alarm, what we usually see in houses, that apply in order to avoid possible entraderas and theft.
Peter Lanzani in “4 x 4” here, the proposal of Mariano Cohn – who works in conjunction with Duprat (“my masterpiece”) – are interested in. The trapped is now the thief, how should it be? Is dismantled, then, an argument that will give that talk, innovative Argentine to cinema what does it take to make justice? If those responsible for the protection of the citizens do not give rude or do not comply with their work, what should we do? There the vision of Directors, into action and how to treat a recurrent theme in an innovative way is ingenious, and planted a debate between shopaholics. Lack of script do a fortress at the time of shooting an entertaining film?
There is almost no dialogues but as mentioned above, it does not become tedious. The challenge was mostly acting, and for this reason, Lanzani deserves to be highlighted. Their gestures and expression, become the fundamental Charter of the film, the way to convey the despair of being on the site of a “Guinea pig”. Luis Brandoni and Daddy Brieva, actors besides Lanzani, appear. You could say that both are some of the Favorites of Cohn and Duprat, since they worked in his earlier films “My masterpiece” and “The illustrious citizen”, respectively. The first, a retired police officer that appears no more than at the end of the film. Just a cameo that adds color to the plot. Moreover, Brieva – Councilmembers in the film stand out more in the theatrical field – embodies to a doctor down to execute their mission in spite of, despite far this take you.
Daddy Brieva in “4 x 4” Brieva returns in the skin of a character who unleashes his sinister side, as we saw previously. And despite his poor appearance, it will be shown in one of the key scenes: where late the debate that transmit Cohn. Encouraged to analyze the complexity of a social fabric that is taken to the extreme. Weaknesses despite the strength of the plot, the film does not generate empathy that promises, while triggers are correct. There are few surprises. Despite the innovative history is, the suspense doesn’t work thread and intrigue is not as strong as the acting performance of the protagonist, that appropriates space and activates his instinct for survival. An uncomfortable film, arrives in theaters to make think this Thursday, April 4, Argentine cinema presents a new production that has the plus of Dante Spinetta, author of the soundtrack and the topic that appears in the film “Route 666”.
