El camino is the continuation film after the end of the famous Breaking Bad series.
And the movie came to satisfy the curiosity of the audience, and it gives them more and more stunning Genius (Gilligan) genius in making scandal plots for the evils of society, and a manifestation of man's endless capabilities to destroy himself, by himself.
Warning: This article has a burn to the end of the Breaking Bad series, but there is no burning for any El camino event
The series ended in 2013 with the 16th episode of Season Five and Final, and it was titled Felina. She left the door open to many questions about the fate of some of the characters in the series. Yes, Seul Goodman's life and its end came to life in a side series he talks about alone, (Walter) kind of can predict his fate, as well as (Skyler) and most of the other central character. But (Jesse Pinkman) the character whose ending was really open, we do not know her final fate.
So today we're going to talk about the El Camino movie that tells the story of Jesse's struggle after he got his freedom, will he successfully escape? Or will the police arrest him?
The story
Finally, Jesse managed to escape from the gang of Uncle (Jack) and the boy (Todd), who was treating him the worst treatment, only to continue cooking meth for themselves. This is with the help of (Walter) who came to free him, by entering them with confidence, and he is with him outside an automatic machine gun with a remote control in his hand, thus killing everyone's life, and leaving the rescue operation injured. To lie on the floor next to the meth tank cabinets there, and Jesse on the other side escapes in an Elkamino, going into the unknown.
The movie continues from that point, and we find (Jesse) driving the car out of that region that had nightmares planted in his mind until the end of life. Will he be able to escape safely? Will he be arrested by the police? Or are there unexpected things hidden by Venice Gilligan as usual? This is what you will know when watching the movie.
An impression of the story
Actually I'm so confused, I can't make a final judgment on this movie. The movie brought me back to the world of Breaking Bad after so many years, and the state of nostalgia caused by me is truly invaluable. But supposing the viewer ends the series recently, he will not feel overly nostalgic. So I'm going to put myself in that person's position, and see the movie like a movie, out of emotions and the love of the series itself.
The movie covered Jesse's life after the escape, and showed a completely different aspect of his character. It showed the complete transformation from a person who escaped from a small house in which meth was cooked so badly at the beginning of the series, to a person inside whom all the bitterness of life had become, and made him as hard as diamonds, and hard as rock.
There are some scenes in the script. I don't know why it came from. The movie is short as a show. It would have been better to put events that belong to the story rather than setting a flashback that is not closely related to the current reality. There is a flashback scene that has taken the movie for 10 minutes or more, just to please the viewers and bring back a certain character from the series again in the movie. This character has no influence on Jesse's life or on the events in the film, but it was brought in to please the fans.
On the other hand, there is more than one useful flashback in the story, and sometimes belongs to the context of the events themselves, and another to the implications of this context on the psychological state of the hero, so he remembers the past.
All in all, the story is good, and Breaking Bad's atmosphere is set in the El Camino movie, and the memories are already restored. And if you are someone who recently finished the series and this movie will not be nostalgic for you, you will also find it fun.
Characters
The characters here are not new, we are in the same orbit of the characters in the series. But when you watch, you'll find new characters already. Hey, aren't your words contradictory, oh? Yes, but listen to me.
For me, if the character comes with events that are completely different from the previous one, then it is new. But if it comes and springs from other existing personalities, it is not new, because it belongs to the previous general theme.
So you will find outwardly new, mystical, new characters. Because it belongs to other previous characters that were presented in the series, and in the movie El Camino only came to support the story under the same banner of the events of the series, so its effect is not pivotal, and we will deal with our usual characters with 99% of the film. Whether these characters appeared in the present, or in the flashback.
The acting
The hero is Iron Ball, of course, as Jesse Pinkman. But the difference here is that (Paul) was able to materialize the stage of wisdom to a large extent. At first, he presented (Jesse) as a boy who has nothing at all, and his experience on the streets is slim, and he has a weak personality. But as he went through all of these events, and seeing Walt making critical criminal decisions, this made him stiffer and stiffer in stages than before, and here (Paul) was able to present that wise phase of the character (Jesse), to find him standing very calm in the context of the scene, to appear It has a terrifying balance and sobriety. As for the representation of the rest of the characters, it is customary of them, of course, as we are used to, a tight and indisputable representation.
The thing that bothered me was Todd. The actor in the role of that character has changed completely these days. He became bigger, gained noticeable weight, his face became larger and the body was different. In spite of that, he came in the movie inside the flashback in that form, while its previous form in the series is completely different from it. This shows the viewer that the character appeared differently on different timelines, but in reality it happened on the same timeline as (Jesse) was a slave. He had to lose some weight to fit into the role. Truthfully, Doppler's search for the character would have been better with stages of this appearance inconsistent with the events of the series.
The Directing
The director here is Venice Glegen. And the output as usual, as usual, is fine. Same as Breaking Bad. The same palette of colors (the color combination) used in the series was used. El Camino is an exact replica of the series, on the directorial level. The only difference you will notice is that the cameras have evolved sharply, and the scenes have become more sharp in detail. Yes, the colors are dull like the series, but this time the sharpness of the details was not very good, bumped into the noise that was flooding the scenes of the series. This visual noise gives you the impression that you are in the atmosphere of the old West, and it really fit for this movie, as it rotates in the same timeline of the end of the events of the series.
Music
You will not find music here, unlike the series. Here, the team tried to focus on the viewer and advance the events more than the music they might have thought was a distraction for the viewer. In the series, music came in silent scenes, but in El camino most scenes have a dialogue, so the music will really be distracted. But this does not really prevent the presence of music, and it is not noticeable in the midst of all that tension and attraction in the movie.
Personal opinion
El camino is not excellent, not bad. If you look at him from the perspective of the Nostalgia and return after many years of interruption, you will find it wonderful and give him the full mark, just because he brought you back the feeling of the series. But if you look at it in the eyes of criticism (as an ordinary viewer, not a technical critic), you will find that there are drops that reduce the pleasure of viewing.
