Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, 2019)

A typical old school neo-noir with a not so typical storyline. There is a clear social comment that derives from the movie and it's been mixed with the virtues of the mystery of a pure and authentic neo-noir. A lot of jazz, a lot of secrets, a lot of searching, a lot of detective cliches and a lot of charm in a film that speaks the language of old cinema but with a voice so clear and so fresh that hits you right in your sensitive parts. Edward Norton makes a typical American movie from the ones that are not afraid to speak the truth about the American way and the scandals that come under the table and harm people in a movie that doesn't go for the word masterpiece but for the phrase "honest movie". Edward Norton is, as always, incredible in his acting and here his character, with the strange syndrome that he has, is a true bliss for the eye and a real lesson for all actors out there. Motherless Brooklyn might not have the imaginative artistic direction that will steal your breath away, but it's a movie that runs like the river, although 144 minutes long you feel that you saw a half hour film and that is due to the plot and the trip of the detective to find the clues. The movie very quickly wraps its arms around you and you forget time, you forget that you are in a theatre, you forget that you are watching a movie and you become one with the 50s era.

Motherless Brooklyn like I said is an honest movie,  a movie that speaks the truth, a movie that has undeniable quality and a movie that makes you clearly and authentically identify with the main character, it makes you love him, it makes you wanna follow him, it makes you simply one of his best friends making the trip even more exciting. There is definitely something highly idiosyncratic about the main character, there is definitely a certain kind of pathos and charm in him, there is definitely a strange allure in his loneliness and there is definitely a whole world of characteristics in his persona that make him a truly lovable guy to the eyes of the audience and finally a character who came to write his own story and mythos in the neo-noir family of our civilization. Motherless Brooklyn is a movie that came not to stir the waters but to make them look crystal clear and to shed light to the dirtiness of the world by showing the deeds of a character who goes down as one of the most imaginative fictional creations that we have seen in a neo-noir film.