Director:
John Patrick ShanleyCámara:
Roger DeakinsMúsica:
Howard ShoreReparto:
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond, Carrie Preston, Lloyd Clay Brown, Paulie Litt, George Aloi, James P. Anderson (más)Streaming (3)
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Es 1964, colegio de San Nicolás en el Bronx. Un vibrante y carismático sacerdote, el padre Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) está tratando de cambiar las estrictas normas del colegio, que durante años han sido fieramente salvaguardadas por la hermana Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), una directora con mano de hierro que cree firmemente en el poder de la disciplina. Vientos de cambio político están barriendo la comunidad, y de hecho el colegio ha aceptado a su primer alumno negro, Donald Millar. Pero cuando la hermana James (Amy Adams), una pobre inocente, le comenta a la hermana Aloysius sus sospechas de que el padre Flynn presta demasiada atención a Donald, la superiora comienza una cruzada personal para sacar a la luz la verdad y expulsar a Flynn del colegio. Sin una sola prueba aparte de su convicción moral, la hermana Aloysius comienza una batalla con el padre Flynn, que amenaza con desgarrar la comunidad con consecuencias irrevocables. (Buena Vista International Spain)
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Es increíble que el director de la película Joe contra el volcán haya hecho algo tan magnífico y atemporal como lo son las Dudas. Es difícil de entender. Incluso si olvido el contenido de toda la película, nunca olvidaré la escena final, que se puede aplicar a muchos momentos y eventos de la vida. Sí, sí, las dudas son uno de los sentimientos más aterradores que una persona puede experimentar.
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Interesting topic, excellent actors, but as whole it can't sustain a heartbeat. What good to me are the amazing Amy Adams and the charismatic Philip Seymour Hoffman if the entire premise of their actions can fit into ten minutes? Instead, I'm watching an hour and a half of stretched-out acting exhibitionism, pushed to the most absurd maximum. Occasionally, a little editing or hinting would have been enough, but no – the routine direction drags the film to an ending that ultimately undermines the whole story. It's precisely because the entire dramatic arc is a smaller deception for the audience that I have to rate it this low.
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Great theater, but only an above-average film. Shanley wrote the perfect screenplay and found excellent collaborators, but Doubt only truly works as an acting concert and a duel between two opposing views of faith. As a film, it offers excellent music by Howard Shore, Deakins' colorful camera, but also a strangely distant director. Shanley tried to enrich the theatrical potential with visual means, but they have awkward theatricality and inelegance, which slows down rather than strengthens tension. This is unfortunate, because the acting and the final question that remains hanging in the air could easily have formed part of an exceptional film. It does not, although Doubt is undoubtedly a very good effort.
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Before: I have considerable doubts about whether Shanley will be able to handle such tricky material while managing to avoid falling into cheesiness, needless literalness and ecclesiastic correctness. And mainly I have doubts about Amy Adams performance alongside the Hoffman Streep duo. After: I have no doubts anymore about Amy and also I now know that it couldn’t have been written, shot and acted any better.
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Well, I really wasn’t expecting this. It’s almost unbelievable how fittingly the name Doubt describes the film. There’s not a single moment when the viewer can be certain on whose side the truth is, or who has the purer or more noble motives, etc. This would have been impossible without a great script and dialogues, which I would appoint as king of all dialogues :-D… I really can’t remember when was the last time I swallowed like this every word uttered by the characters in a film. Praising the performances would be redundant, and I reckon this year the members of the Academy will have a very hard job. Just one more thing before closing, I wouldn’t have believed it before watching it, but I’ve just found “my” drama of the year 2008.
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