The way: movie review

The movie frenzy never ends as you can see from the pace of my movie reviews. This time is the turn of "The way" directed by Emilio Estevez.

I must say that I approached this movie with pretty high hopes and I wasn't disappointed. From my last statement it's easy to guess that I like movies with few words, good landscapes, fine soundtracks and solid stories: The way. The soundtrack is the first thing that captured my attention; although the journey was entirely set in Europe most of the music, I should say 90% of it, was made of American songs and it wasn't that cool. Don't get me wrong, I love American country and rock songs as the ones in the soundtrack of Into the Wild, with the beautiful Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder; but that movie was set in the U.S.A. The landscape, the characters the story itself had a mark saying "made in U.S.A." , "The Way" is produced by Hollywood but doesn't talk about America, that's why folk Spanish music was very missed.

Apart from my fixation with soundtracks I liked this movie because Emilio Estevez demonstrated how important it is to stretch time and space in visual story telling. I sometimes happen to see movies where you don't feel the time has passed, and everything for the audience is much harder to grasp. While watching "The Way" you felt the time was passing by, and step by step you could perceive the characters were leaving behind themselves loads of things and at the same time they were carrying with them remains of a past life to overtake once arrived in Santiago.

A few words to wrap up this review: after this movie I am even more convinced than before, that one day I'll walk the "Camino" as well.