12 h 7 out 2020 ano - Johnny Depp MINAMATA #1 International Trailer Released

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The photographer of Minamata
A photojournalist about to retire, takes on a last order, covering a tragedy that occurred in Japan for Life magazine

Andrew Levitas/ Johnny Depp, Minami Hinase, Akiko Iwase, Bill Nighy, Hiroyuki Sanada

BY ANDRÉ DIDYME-DÔME

In the 1950s, in the city of Minamata in Japan, an outbreak of methylmercury poisoning was detected for the first time, which initially sickened and killed a large number of cats, dogs and birds, but then claimed the lives of more than forty people.

In the following decade, more than one hundred deaths and four hundred reported cases were counted. By the end of the 20th century, the figures tripled. Likewise, some pregnant mothers who did not suffer from any symptoms, ended up giving birth to children with severe physical deformities and neurological syndromes.

Health authorities determined that the poisoning was caused by the ingestion of fish and seafood contaminated by the huge landfills of the petrochemical company Chisso. This environmental disaster led to a new medical diagnosis. Minamata's disease is a severe, permanent and often fatal neurological disorder caused by the intake and prenatal exposure to high levels of mercury.

Using a traditional narrative structure, director and screenwriter Andrew Levitas (Lullaby), tells us how photojournalist W. Eugene Smith (Johnny Depp) covered the tragedy for Life magazine. Depp resorts to the mannerisms used to embody the journalist Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and disgust in Las Vegas, to play an alcoholic, sullen, depressed and in economic difficulties Smith, who turns to his former boss Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy) to give a few words in a retrospective of his work, before which he refuses.

Smith had become a legend of photography, thanks to his photos taken in World War II. But then he would become a difficult person who does not accept changes within a legendary magazine, who would have to face a crisis caused by television and the frivolity of journalism (if Smith had managed to witness the current situation, he would probably have suffered a stroke).

In the midst of loneliness and a personal and economic crisis that leads him to think about his imminent retirement, a Japanese woman named Aileen (Minami Hinase) knocks on Smith's door, who apparently looks for the photographer to promote the Fuji film rolls, but who ends up informing him of the environmental disaster of Minamata and asks him to use his camera to alert the world. At first, the photographer is reluctant, but then argues with his former boss to carry out one last mission. The Minamata photographer is a film that feels from another era, not only because it takes place in a time where magazines were read and journalism meant something, but because it tells a story in a clear and direct way, which seeks to comment on the ecological problems caused by man, while showing us how a reporter and a dissatisfied community can face megacorporations and make a change, even if it is slow and difficult.

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