Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, 2019)

 I still remember the day that I saw this movie in the theater. It was that suspenseful opening scene and the captivating performance of Edward Norton that made say that this was going to be a great movie. Usually when movies begin with a loud bang they continue as brilliantly as they started. Motherless Brooklyn is a different neo-noir movie. A special one and unfortunately a highly underrated movie. When in most cases in neo-noir movies you have a captivating mystery to follow, in this case they mystery exists, but there is another, highly crucial, element of the movie that is the backbone of the movie. That visionary story of the movie that flows together with the mystery giving a gritty, substantial character to the film. 

It's true that I haven't seen another neo-noir movie with so much brains. I haven't seen another neo-noir movie combining so heavenly the cliches of the genre with the genius of the project. Edward Norton chose a story that is much more than an entertaining movie, it goes much deeper than the average movie that you watch just to get high with the plot twists and the secrets. In Motherless Brooklyn you feel that you are entering a world that it has all the elements of the underworld, but it talks about powerful people, totally legal and respected. It's another type of movie that uses the suspense in order to make a comment about power and influence. It's a another type of movie that moves away from the zillion stories about corrupt policemen and drunk, stoned gangsters and talks about things that concern us much more substantially. It's without thinking it, a shame that this movie didn't get what it deserved it's one of the best movies of recent years. I still have vivid in my mind that plot of the movie that went deeper and deeper to the secrets, lies and deceit of the people in power, it went deeper to a state that instead of wanting to help its inhabitants, it exploited them with a ruthlessness and a rudeness that you are going to witness and be socked by it. I sincerely hope that there were more movies coming out with the same sensitivity and similar comment, but unfortunately we are living in times that fucking craps are the king and the queen at the same time.