Nebraska (2013)
Directed by Alexander Payne
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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After a whole string of wry, relatively small-scale, character-driven movies like Sideways and Nebraska, writer/director Alexander Payne goes all high-concept with his latest offering…
As always, Payne explores the plight of the male in contemporary America with ease (as he has so effectively before, in Sideways, Election and Nebraska).
Films like Election, Sideways and Nebraska, for instance, spotlighted a burgeoning crisis in American masculinity, focusing on men who fear that they’re seen as small by the world.
Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants and Nebraska are all, in some respects, about mediocre men reaching an impasse…
…refreshingly eschews the gentle social realism of Sideways and Nebraska…
While director Alexander Payne has long been fascinated with ordinary guys struggling with their lot in life — think Sideways, The Descendants and Nebraska…
Mangold y el cinefotógrafo Phedon Papamichael ( Nebraska , 2013) filman estas escenas con una mano firme, lo que permite a los espectadores ver todo lo que está sucediendo y al mismo tiempo experimentar la emoción que conlleva ser un cuerpo que se mueve a grandes velocidades en el espacio y el tiempo.
Even though he and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael ( Nebraska , Downsizing ) have to keep up with some of the fastest cars built for the 1960s, there’s a warm crispness to every shot of the film.
Shot by Phedon Papamichael (Payne’s Nebraska, 2013), the look of the period is mostly well-administered, though an early montage set to a portion of Daniel Pemberton’s (Steve Jobs, 2015) score sets the film off on a hokey note, The Trial of the Chicago 7 might not reach the heights of some of Sorkin’s other political or courtroom scripted dramas, from “The West Wing” to A Few Good Men (1992).
Payne is clearly trying to achieve a sense of Midwestern realism in the casting of these smaller roles (much like how Richard Linklater achieved that small-town Texas flavor with “Bernie”), but it feels a little close-minded in the way that almost every character is portrayed as a redneck simpleton.