Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Cinema have represented the quest and search of the unknown in the enigmatic jungles and forest of the world. There is so many explorer who risked their lives, drive with fever of success and to become well known personalities responsible of finding a cities in the amazon.

From a blockbuster movies like Indiana Jones series, Ciro Guerra “Embrace of the Serpent” Werner Herzog’ s Aguirre The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The most common factor of this films is the adventure, the obsession of finding the unknown and last but not least the mystery of the unknown.

Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) a successful British officer is sent to London to meet the members of the Royal Geographical Society with the task of travel to the border of Brazil and Bolivia who are at the brink of war for that territory. These countries asked the British government to survey the area to solve this differences. On the ship to Brazil, Fawcett meet Corporal Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson) who tell Fawcett about the Amazon rainforest and the rubber plantations.

During this trip Fawcett had revelations about the life in the forest, his connections with aborigines but also he grows obsessions with mysterious cities in the jungle. After returning from his first trip his wife Nina (Sienna Miller) has given birth to their second son. Thanks to Nina, Fawcett become interested in going back after the finding of a conquistador text talking about a city deep into the Amazon jungle.

The Lost City of Z is James Gray 6th film, a complex production in Santa Marta Colombia, well crafted and well performed. The movie is a true gem capturing the stories of Percy Fawcett. The story represents a great visual document about Amazon exploration in the very beginning of the 20th century. It’s a story about characters who wants something in their life, outside their confort zone. The Lost City of Z is Fawcett obsession and passion, driven by his family, but also their demise. The two parallel worlds are the aristocracy and brutal British life at war and the dangerous and mysterious environment between Bolivia and Brazil.

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