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Dan Laustsen, who also shot Crimson Peak and The Shape of Water, does a masterful job of weaving the camera around the settings, never straying far from Stan himself. Everything about the visual presentation is outstanding. I think Nightmare Alley is perhaps del ToroвЂ™s most handsome production. В© 2021 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved They seem foreboding, like a world Stan ought to realize he doesnвЂ™t belong in. This stands in contrast to the gorgeously recreated Art Deco offices and hotels that permeate the second half. There is something horrific and yet, like all the best del Toro movies, strangely beautiful about the carny life.

The best scenes here are the early ones with Stan ingratiating himself with the sideshow folks, learning about that very specific world of making yokels believe theyвЂ™ve gotten their moneyвЂ™s worth. That said, itвЂ™s clear what del Toro cares most about. While the story, like all good noirs, is about doom from beginning to end, we never get the sense in this version that Stan might have something else up his sleeve that could get him out of the scrapes. But what it lacks is the urgency, the spark of unbridled insanity from characters like Stan and Lilith that made the original so disturbing. Sure it can show more blood and more explicitly convey themes the earlier film simply couldnвЂ™t. В© 2021 20th Century Studios All Rights ReservedДЇirst and foremost it should be said that this version of Nightmare Alley is not as good, or as upsetting, as the вЂ™47 original. Richard Jenkins plays a particularly powerful man Stan would be very foolish to try to swindle. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett), who has her own motives. He has to enlist the aid of psychiatrist Dr. Though specifically forbidden from doing вЂњspook showsвЂќ where he pretends to communicate with the dead, Stan thinks he can make the big money making rich people believe he can speak to their dead loved ones. When they reach the big city, Stan thinks he can land the bigger fish in the form of powerful judges and businessmen. Eventually he and another carny named Molly (Rooney Mara) branch out on their own using PeteвЂ™s dangerous mentalism scheme. Meanwhile, ZeenaвЂ™s drunkard husband Pete (David Strathairn) teaches Stan the ways of mentalism.

That includes medical oddities and the Geek, a strictly illegal act where a bestial man bites the head off a live chicken. He shows him all of the seedier parts of the business. The head of the sideshow, Clem (Willem Dafoe), takes a shine to Stan. He falls into a job, first as grunt labor and then as a barker for Madam Zeena (Toni Collette) and her phony mentalism act.

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The movie follows a drifter named Stan Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) who happens upon a traveling sideshow. He has, time and again, shown the utmost love for such things.

But it seems, in 2021, the perfect vehicle for del Toro. Its setting of sideshows, carnivals, mentalist performances, and faux spiritual readings is not the typical backdrop for such a picture. The movie, which was to be swashbuckling hero actor Tyrone PowerвЂ™s shift to вЂњseriousвЂќ films, was too bleak even for a noir. The book had already been adapted to the screen in a 1947 film noir at Fox. As a result, itвЂ™s also the bleakest look at humanity heвЂ™s ever put to screen.Дel Toro and Kim Hunter adapted William Lindsay GreshamвЂ™s novel of the same name. The only fantastical elements are the outright fraudulent, the work of hucksters and charlatans. In his latest, Nightmare Alley, itвЂ™s all harsh reality. In all of the directorвЂ™s best films, he mixes fantastical elements with the harsh, often violent, reality of the world. Generally he uses the lens of the outsiders, the unwanted children and the perceived monsters. Throughout his career as a filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro has shown us the darkest parts of humanity.

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