The night brings advice, says the well -known proverb.
However, at the cinema it is not always the case.
The seventh art taught us, declining the thing in all possible and imaginable genres, that everything can happen in one night.
The members of a gang can be unjustly accused of murder and forced to reach their base in Coney Island starting from the Bronx to get rid of the other bands of the Big Apple (the warriors of the night).
A former soldier of the special forces of the American army who is about to be imprisoned for theft, finds himself sent to the island of Manhattan, who became an open -air prison separated from the rest of the metropolis, to recover the president of the United States of America, kidnapped by criminals after the Air Force One was hijacked (1997: escape from New York).
An average depressed aerospace engineer can accidentally come across a splendid woman who says she is chased by four bad Iranians (all in one night).
The young bassist of a band Queircore Nick O’Leary, recently gone down by his girlfriend, could end up falling in love with a girl named Nora after a night of music and walks through New York (Nick & Nora).
In short, when it comes to movies, the night brings more unexpected adventures than calm advice.
Which is also what happens to the character played by Vanessa Kirby in the film, coming out in Ferragosto on Netflix, entitled The night always arrives.
The night always comes: the plot of the film
The film directed by Benjamin Caron and starring Vanessa Kirby is based on Willy Vlautin’s bestseller “Night Always Comes”. From which it is distanced from the point of view of the arc of time to narrate the story of Lynette, set in a Porland that, like all the big American cities, sees more and more increase the distance between that equally slice of wealthy people who have no particular problems to support the dear life in flakiness and those who, instead, make a very effort to make the accounts of the house. Over the night, Lynette does everything to secure the property of the house where she lives with her mother and her older brother (who is a down person). In a handful of hours, the woman will have to deal with a lot with the money that is missing and need to ensure the property of the home, 25,000 dollars, and with her turbulent past. All this in the novel at the base happens in two days and two nights, in the feature film, for obvious synthesis and spectacularization needs, takes place in a night.
A series of unfortunate events
After the enjoyable (but very forgotten) Sharper, who arrived in February 2023 in streaming on Apple TV+, Benjamin Caron returns to direct a feature film always aimed at streaming, at night it always arrives. Caron is mainly known to be a television director – he directed episodes of the first season of Andor, The Crown, Sherlock and Wallander – a habitat where it seems much more at ease than with the films and their different methods and times of narration.
The night always arrives is a mix of didacticism and overload of tragedies that should be useful to understand and enter the head, in the form mentis of the protagonist Lynette and to grab what her past was, but ending up leaving those looking at.
Everything starts with the inevitable brushes based on the news that can be heard in the background as they flow the first images of the film and of an increasingly derelict and populated Portland of homeless as all the US metropolises. On what has become impossible to live because once with a hundred dollars filled spending envelopes today you buy two things, the rents are unsustainable and mortgages as well because the cost of everything has risen except that of people’s salaries.
All true, sacrosanct and perfectly understandable even by those who live in Borgo Panigale and not only in the United States because it is an Urbi et orbi problem.
However, there is a way and way of falling the viewer in a given context and that of La Notte always arrives is exemplary in terms of captions as we said a little while ago. In some ways, the alternating assembly of an armchair for two, made of poverty and rechezza only that to tell them the satire was the expert hand there was the expert hand of John Landis, here the wrist is different and less capable. And you see.
The crossings to which the character of Vanessa Kirby has to face are a continuous succession of literally unlikely situations where the suspension of incredivity becomes more impractical than what would happen by watching some science fiction films. Lynette finds himself having to do things, he does not spoil you anything clearly, who are unable to convey that feeling of a person put to the ropes suddenly struggling with the unexpected who could then lead to consequences advantageous or disadvantageous.
It is clear: the fact of having reduced the story from two nights to one probably wants to strengthen the allegorical scope of hell that the woman has to pass before going out to “see the stars” but it is always and in any case to see her cross some very little plausible infernal groups. And the fact that Lynette, despite all the misfortunes of his existence, is a character with whom it is impossible to empathize certainly does not help.
There are millions of ways to spend a pleasant mid -August and watching the night always arrives, it certainly does not fall among them.
Vote: 4.5
date:2025-08-16 16:31:00