A Great Film

The movie I like the most is called “21 grams”. It’s directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and the main cast is Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro. Besides, it´s part of a kind of trilogy, along with “Amores Perros” and “Babel”, in which the plot tells the story of three different characters that don’t know each other, but for many reasons their lives coincide at some point. You may think that the film could be related with drug traffic or an addiction, but it begins explaining that the title is based on an old story. Somebody, I don’t know where or why, said that our body, at the exactly moment of our death, loses 21 grams, so it would be the weight of our soul. I can’t remember the characters’ names, so I’ll use the actors’ ones.  Naomi’s husband and her two daughters suffer a collision by a car that is being driven by Benicio, an old man who used to be at the ‘dark side’ and a few years ago had converted into Catholicism, but it doesn’t save him from jail. For his part, Sean was really near of decease because he had a terminal illness. He needed an urgent heart transplantation and the death of Naomi’s husband let him have a new life. The three characters relate between them and an innovative aspect of the film is that the scenes aren’t presented on a lineal way, so you can get notice of the events in a disordered way.

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