Top 3 Peter Weir Movies

To the credit of Australian director Peter Weir we find a handful of great films that unfortunately have been scattered in a very punctual way. Ignoring the reasons why Weir did not assume more directions in productions with his particular Oscar-winning label on several occasions. Perhaps it is a matter of a plot variability for which there is no other choice but to think about the type in search of the most precise script that becomes appetizing.

Even so, more than a dozen feature films accompany him in his good pile of decades behind the cameras. And without being any of his films remarkable for any distinctive sign made in Weir in terms of scenery, photography or color, it is precisely his meticulous workmanship and the prominence of the resources at the service of the plot that make his films successful. Nothing better than that delivery, that kind of self-sacrifice of the ego for the work, to make sure you do the best for the film. In extremes that range from the setting, the dialogues and of course the most appropriate characters.

Top 3 best movies of Peter Weir

The Truman Show

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Accused of being a histrionic character inside and outside the movies, Jim Carrey was the perfect stereotype to become that Truman who lives his life oblivious to what is behind him. That strange or rather paranoid idea of ​​some kind of plan conceived on our consciences makes everything seem overreacted at times. That's what this movie is about between the humorous of a ruthless reality show and the sociological around the notion of individual freedom, of free will...

Carrey deals, between humor and bewilderment, with making us live in his unreal world full of allegories and metaphors about what happens out here, on the other side of all fiction. The fears of the child clinging to the man unable to leave what was always his home and the creaking circumstances that make his world go off the rails.

Because little by little everyone is falling into falsehood. From his wife to his very mother. Even that best friend who would never betray him and reaching a delirious catharsis with the mistaken reappearance of his deceased father in the middle of the stage of his life.

Truman on the one hand. But on our part the taste for observing others to spit out all kinds of summary judgments. The stupidity of television, fast content, the irrelevance of what happens and is told to us on television as tragedies of our days...

The voice of his master. The director of Reality telling the characters what they have to say to Truman at all times. And subliminal advertising, like when Truman's wife looks into the camera and tries to sell us super-sharp kitchen knives. A hilarious film but also fascinating from many other angles.

Dead poets society

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I understand that many fans of Peter Weir consider it a mistake to put this film in second place. But such are tastes. For me, Truman, being an entertainment movie in essence, has many other viewings that make us move between reality and fiction just in the opposite direction in which the character does. Converging at that door where he says goodbye and we arrive.

But going back to the club, we are talking about a film that for the first time tackled the dilemma of the educational system like the train that screeches just before derailing (perhaps it has already done so given the underlying immobility of almost all educational systems, more interested in indoctrination than in the more human training).

Because yes, young people must be educated. Only perhaps at the moment when they most need to acquire that autonomy, that will that could make them free people in adulthood, the educational system suffers from an impossible uniformity, from a completely passive approach.

We all know. We all assume it. We sacrifice most of the youth with the simplistic satisfaction of the brainiac on duty who gets a 10 and who fulfills all the teaching efforts. Quite an achievement, quite a successful man or woman for the future...

The unforgettable professor John Keating pulls from the gift to exercise that, as a teacher. Because at worst it is that a teacher should only be the one who has the gift to be. But an opposition is much more useful to grant a teaching position... of course it is, where does it end up...

The matter has remained a bit critical for me. But it is precisely because of the memory of this film that pointed to the idea of ​​the leader, the empathetic adult, the teacher crazy enough to believe in all his students filled with will and shouting oh captain, my captain.

Sole witness

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In order to make a suspense film, a noir thriller, Weir chose an even more intricate plot with the role of the child who observes the crime. A boy named Samuel from an Amish community who, locked in the toilet of a gas station bathroom, witnesses a cold-blooded murder.

Only that death has little of accidental. Many loose ends for an inspector named John Book in charge of discovering what happened in that shady affair where a police officer ends up being "taken out of the way."

And only he, that defenseless child, can clarify something for John. Only the probing of the creature puts him at clear risk because there are many who don't want him to say anything he might have seen or heard. Taking advantage of the situation, we approach an Amish group where everything is happening in a more impressive way between the secrecy of some and the irrepressible interest of others to also get rid of the child...

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