🇬🇧 The monuments men

For me, art and culture always were essential values. During this global pandemic (coronavirus) I see the importance of these elements in our daily lives much stronger. Observe how many lives of your favourite artists and how many series and films you watched, how much time you’re spending playing video games, the opportunities of virtual visits to museums and touristic destinations and so on.

Today I’d like to talk about “The monuments men”, a movie directed by George Clooney and full of stars on its cast. The movie is about a group that, during the second world war had the mission to find and saves pieces of art that the Nazis were stealing to destroy.

The movie shows how important art is for our culture and history. In the beginning, the character Frank Stokes (Clooney) says no piece of art is worth the life of a man. During the operation he changes his mind and this change for me is the most important part of the movie.

The cast is fantastic, the story is interesting, specially for seeing war from a different point of view, putting the value of art for our history as a crucial point. The movie is not new, it was launched on 2014, but only recently I had the opportunity to watch it. The movie is touching, sensible, sagacious and worthy two hours of our time to know a bit about something that really happened, through the lenses of cinema.

I read negative criticism about the movie but mostly from people who are unable to understand the importance of art in our lives and maybe these people were expecting a normal war movie full of blood. This is a movie more full of brain and sensibility, it’s more about strategy and intuition than battles. And it happens full of men on screen, only Cate Blanchet as feminine appearance.

There’s one detail I must anticipate and I don’t think is a spoiler, but you’re free to stop reading now if you prefer.

The last scene, shows older Stokes with a child. Watching the movie I could understand it was one of the main characters, but although the “actor” is Clooney’s father, Nick Clooney, I only identified it was Stokes for sure after reading the full cast somewhere, after to watch the movie. 😁 Well, I didn’t know anything about Nick Clooney up to that reading. Possibly for people from the USA this is obvious. But I was born in Brazil, George Clooney is brunette and his father’s skin is white. But this was the only confused moment for me watching this, and it didn’t compromise the movie.

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Nycka, the nomad