Super 8

Anoche pasaron por televisión Super 8 y me detuve a verla, pues no la conocía, increíblemente. La verdad es que la vi pues la confundí con otra, pero de todos modos fue un gran hallazgo. Existen muchas películas geniales que le rinden tributo al cine, al hecho cinematográfico, ésta es una de ellas, a su manera le rinde homenaje a tantos cineastas que comenzaron a filmar 'películas' con sus amigos en la adolescencia.…

With "Super 8", J.J. Abrams tries to resurrect a portion of this lost time and pays tribute to these "special films." And they largely belong to Spielberg, so in the end it's a tribute to himself Here is the feeling of the epoch, here are the familiar issues about the family (the lack of one parent, the problematic relationship with the father, a topic that is heavily covered with Spielberg), the friends, the fascin…

In an homage to both the 'Super 8' camera of the mid-sixties and Spielberg's hits of the late 70's and 80's, J.J. Abrams' self-written and self-directed Super 8 feels like a mixture classics combined into one film. A lot can be said about the recent state of shows and films that carry the weight of nostalgia and pop-culture references, but Super 8 feels like one of the few to disband itself from the likes of such by…