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Weighing Up the Qualities of Independence: 21 Grams in Focus

2004; Manchester University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7227/fs.5.7

2054-2496

Geoff King,

Cinema History and Criticism

An analysis of 21 Grams (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003) that uses the film to illustrate a number of trends in the contemporary American independent sector, including both its situation in the industrial landscape and its most distinctive formal qualities. Industrially, the film, distributed by Focus Features, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, is identified as a product of the zone of overlap that exists between all-out independence and attachment to the major Hollywood studio-distributors. A hybrid identity is also suggested,at the level of form, in a mixture of fragmented narrative and hyper-realistic visual textures with more conventionally melodramatic content.