By Robert Scucci
| Published 1 hour ago

They say: “What’s going on in Vegas, remains in Vegas”, and this declaration is particularly true if you are Ben Sanderson by Nicolas Cage from 1995 Leave Las Vegas. In case you are wondering what the trailers of exact movies refer when they say “Oscar winner, Nicolas Cage”, it is this masterpiece of self-destruction, and for a very good reason . Convincingly defeating a suicidal alcoholic who moves to the city of Sin with the sole purpose of drinking to death, Cage prepared for his role by making a two -week bending to Dublin, Ireland, while filming everyone From his movements so that he can seek the movements and the speech models of a problem drinker before filming.

Although I cannot say that it is the most intense form of method to act that I have never heard of because obtaining a stamp on your passport and to present itself absolutely for fifteen does not seem Not to be a bad way to spend your time, it is clear that Cage tackled your research as intensely as possible, with is the course if you are more than familiar with your amazing work.

What way to go out

After being dismissed from his work as a Hollywood screenwriter for his excessive alcohol consumption, Ben Sanderson accepts a heavy counting of his boss – who really liked to have it, but had no choice but to let him go – And decides to move to Las Vegas. Through Leave Las Vegas’ By opening up the assembly, we testify to one of the many dangerous drinking binges of Ben while he stumbles from one bar to another, and leads in an imprudent manner while taking heroic scales of the bottles of alcohol that You will make you gag thinking about how his esophagus takes a beat.

Despite Ben’s tragic behavior, he presents himself as a sympathetic character Leave Las Vegas Because it is clearly a lost soul which is ready to let the habit that ruined his life deliver his last death. At the beginning of the film, he poured his heart and soul to a disinterested prostitute, declaring that “I don’t know if I started drinking because my wife left me or my wife left me because I Began to drink, but F * CK is still. But this moment of intoxication in intoxication is not relevant because we do not focus on Ben’s life before moving to Vegas; We focus on how he plans to leave the city in a body bag if he could help him.

He takes two in Tango

While Ben continues to slip into Leave Las VegasHe approaches a sex worker named will be (Elisabeth Shue), a woman who lives herself a self-destructive lifestyle, while working for a dangerous Latvian pimp named Yuri (Julian Sands) who threatens her life more than one opportunity. The two injured souls form a relationship based on the basis of not judging, but rather to accept the lifestyles of the other, and well will be promised never to ask him to stop drinking. Their relationship, although volatile for obvious reasons, is played as two people trying to hang on a ribbon of happiness even if they know that they will never see a happy ending given their situation.

Forcing emotions on the spectator

Turned entirely with a super camera of 16 mm, Nicolas cageThe performance of Leave Las Vegas is authentic and painful, and it is clear that his first research before production is one of the many reasons why he has banged an Oscars for his performance.

Between the different states of the intoxication of Ben Sanderson, his power failures and his drunk fantasies at some point in the film, it becomes more and more difficult to set up a chronology of drunk events during most of his nights , which is supplemented by the rupture of its point of view and show us what will be, and the rest of the world, is seen that it drinks with a suicidal intention.

Knowing how fragile his partner is, will always be reassured that the previous night – that he often does not remember at all – was not too bad, even if he would generally have violent episodes that would prohibit the couple of the place they occupied.

As Leave Las Vegas Works through his second and third acts, we learn how dangerous it is to get romantically involved with someone who will not live at Christmas because they I don’t want to.

A powerful odyssey of self-destruction streaming on max

Leave Las Vegas is a difficult film to watch, but it offers a unique mix of perspectives through its visual dialogue. Not only can the spectator look at two tragic characters collapsing from their own point makes their relationship all the more tragic.

Considering Ben’s emotional states and will be throughout Leave Las VegasYou want there to be a happy ending, but we give you enough context to know that the very notion of “fortunately forever” is downright impossible.

To date, you can broadcast Leave Las Vegas on Max.