Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

 

Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is the story of an era that is finishing. It's the story of the sad and bitter end. The main character of the movie was a successful actor back in the days and now sees his career been destroyed. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood might be a retelling of the Manson murders story but mostly is a journey or a glimpse if you prefer of Hollywood at the end of the 60s. And so the movie has all the necessary smells, it has all those visual ingredients that make it a credential that records the time and the place. It's aura is that of the glory and the sweet perfume that seems to fade away now, as new things, new faces and new rules emerge for the city of Hollywood. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is a unique movie because it doesn't care for the plot and the action, but it cares mostly to make you "an accessory to the murder". To make you in other words to feel and touch that time and that period, to make you sense the houses, the roads, the clothes, the songs, the people, cinema, art and everything that surrounds life as we know it. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is an example of a movie that looks inside the event not for looking at the event, but for sensing the aura. Those scenes where we gaze at Sharon Tate practically doing nothing. Just coming and going, but the effect that this procedure has to us is so powerful, so intense. We become citizens of Hollywood for three hours. We go back at the end of the 60s and feel, we sense, we touch, we are there, we can really grab things and know how they feel, how they smell. There is no doubt that the movie is vivid, is so very much alive. The spectator is much more than a simple spectator in a random movie. He is a glorious participant. And for that Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is a golden masterpiece. It's a movie that really bewilders you, really bewitches you. It's an artistic piece that speaks the language of forgotten, living and realistic myths. It's that thing that you feel while watching the movie that Hollywood belongs to you. It's undoubtedly yours.