Tony Manero Ribbon
The film Tony Manero has a promising premise: tell the horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship through a protagonist that has nothing to do with dictatorship and whose obsession dance exactly like the character of fever Saturday night. My biggest concern before seeing the movie was: what should see Tony Manero with Augusto Pinochet? The problem of Tony Manero is that it does not resolve such doubt. When metaphors are used to describe a situation, there is almost always encouraging results. In a film such as Lars Von Trier’s Dogville, for example, the metaphor of the abandoned theater serves to give the idea of desolation. Charly Kaufman’s Synecdoche, tiny paintings that the wife of the protagonist, draws serve as mirror of the amplified worlds which are of the film. The key to using a metaphor found in the distance. How much farther is the metaphor of the object that replaces, more effective is the suggestion. The problem with using Tony Manero as metaphor of the dictatorship is the short distance that is sets, in terms of narrative, dramatic action (the dictatorship) of the film.
Fever of Saturday night has barely one year of released when the film begins. The protagonist is still able to see it in the cinema. What is worse, the gratuitous violence of the protagonist is not metaphorical nothing: the dictatorship also used this gratuitous violence. Then the film rather than exploit the metaphor, is dedicated to draw parallels, rather difficult to establish, between the life of the protagonist Raul Peralta and the historical context in which he lives. The tone of the film is also a problem. Unlike a similar film like American Psycho, Tony Manero Ribbon does not have moments in which lower the tension. The film is fraught with constant, stunning the audience discomfort. For when Tony Manero confronts its objective, the public is so depleted that the terrifying effect desired is not achieved.
Tony Manero is an unfulfilled promise. A great idea that was in the dark. The premise is powerful enough to sustain the movie however is the feeling that this could have been one of the biggest films of the Chilean cinema. Not the case. Tony Manero repeats the same dance steps again and again and perhaps as a disk in the 70s fever, ends up getting tired. If you want to know how to get loans, visit financing companies and mortgage calculation.