Kevin Bacon does not need any overacting or histrionics to reach us in whatever emotions the scene in question requires. What this actor has is the innate gift that hardly requires any maceration, nor additives, nor other tricks beyond the use of a personality and charisma fallen from the sky, fortunately for a Kevin Bacon who teaches a class in the use of his most natural resources.
Which does not detract from each of their roles but quite the opposite. Having Kevin Bacon among the cast of actors in a film ensures that point of sobriety, of substance, of transcendence. And in his long career he has played characters of all kinds.
Outstanding roles that multiply their value when we find mystery or tension. In fact, we find few humorous films to his credit, nor great romances. A guy made for those stories with his dark point towards thriller. An actor who is becoming less and less prodigious but who is already a historic figure in world cinema.
Kevin Bacon's 3 Best Movies
Sleepers
AVAILABLE HERE:One of my favorite films in general, not just by Kevin Bacon (who, even though he is not the main protagonist, carries much of the weight of the plot). One of those plots with a certain metaphorical point made in Hollywood to address sordid issues. Because beyond the crudest realism with which European cinema almost always portrays reality, the transformation towards a reading at times capable of amending the tragic has its point. And for me, cinema must also take care of that other presentation of the most sordid reality to give it some hope, give it a spiritual reading even in the void, give it a second chance if it can happen...
Because the guys from Sleepers changed their destiny for the worse at that tragic turning point of the childishness or the prank that ends in drama. And everything got worse as the consequences turned into punishment. From his neighborhood, that popular Hell's Kitchen where children lived on the streets, to his maturity full of the traumas that happened since then.
Bacon here is Sean Nokes, who ends up focusing the hatred of those children who have become men, and he will be the one who returns them fully to the hell they have experienced. Revenge on him will have little healing and the past will loom over them like the inevitable storm.
Mystic River,
AVAILABLE HERE:In second place in the top interpretations of Bacon because Sean Penn here he eats everything. Followed closely by Tim Robbins. Even so, having Kevin to complement the acting triangle is a luxury.
I've always thought that directing this brutal film, Clint Eastwood he did not know how to find the best ending when it happened right under his nose. The moment in which Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) gets up from the sidewalk, early in the morning and with the last effluvia of alcohol subsiding before his hangover, takes a few steps and points towards the street where the old childhood friend left, Dave (Tim Robbins) to his doom… That was the most elegant ending to the movie and surely one of the most round endings ever seen!
A little behind him we see Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) and together they could have stayed during a silence that could have lasted for minutes. Because in that strange absence of the third friend, Dave, from the very day the wolves took him away in that car until all the years he dragged after him, there is everything that cements the existence of the three children of yesteryear. An inevitable circle for fatality to repeat itself in its cyclical evolution. So that all this message reaches us without explaining it like this at any time has much to do with Sean Penn's role. All three do great, but especially Robbins as a man traumatized from childhood.
The man Without a shadow
AVAILABLE HERE:I love those alternative superhero movies, like "Unbreakable" by Bruce Willis or this invisible man of a young Kevin Bacon who amazes me in his role as a crazy scientist in search of the perfect alchemy of the day.
Sebastian Caine works for the Secret Service and has just developed a formula to become invisible. Having successfully tested it on himself, he discovers that he cannot reverse the effect. His colleagues try to find a solution, but Caine becomes increasingly obsessed with his new power and slowly becomes convinced that his colleagues want to take him down. From that moment on, Caine will lose his mind and become a real threat to those around him.
Thus, what pointed to a discovery and a scientific advance turns the friend Bacon into a kind of Joker-like antihero, with his phobias, his obsessions and his slow path towards the dark side and perdition.