22 July

El director Paul Greengrass ya había demostrado su capacidad para poder contar sucesos reales con "Vuelo 93" y "Capitán Philips", pero con esta película se supera. Narra el violento atentado que cobró 77 vidas el 2011 en Noruega y las consecuencias directas en una familia y en el país. Comienza mostrando una secuencias muy violenta del atentado; con esta se marca el tono de la película. Los colores en la película varían entre grises, las actuaciones son expresivas y todo se mezcla con el ambiente tenso y sombrío que se vivió luego del atentado. No peca de sensacionalista y se mantiene seria, mostrando las consecuencias directas del atentado sobre un joven y su familia, la frustración que va creciendo en el y todas las consecuencias de esta. Además, también seguimos la historia de un abogado que se ve obligado a defender a el responsable del atentado. El conflicto moral que se plantea, los problemas que esto le acarrea, se ve representado de una manera realista y directa. Un magnifico docu-drama con una fuerza abrasiva.

Fairly well-made, well-acted and engrossing retelling of a massacre and its aftermath.

Although impactful at every scene, this film should be in Norwegian so that it can be more authentic.

It is a docu-drama about the tragic event that shook up not only Norway but the whole world. Yet the way this movie shows the event and it's aftermath does not live up to the scale of the tragedy. There were too many details that prevented me from believing what I was watching. Maybe I am too spoiled but cinematography was the only aspect of the movie that I liked. Directing, casting, script, performances: all *at best* were mediocre. I think what happened on Utøya island deserves a better movie. It is pretty much exploitation of the subject.

I thought I wanted to watch this after the movie "Utoya" popped up in the cinemas and reminded me of the subject, but after noticing that "22 July" shows the perpetrator in full view, played by an actor who looks like him, I realized this is just the kind of sensationalist material that all sociologists say should be avoided after a public murder or mass murder: any air time given to the murderer, their appearance, their message, their methods, all of that only helps them make their act known to people and stimulates copycats to try to do the same or be even more efficient the next time. And of course it's not surprising this version was made in collaboration with the U.S. - Civilian Mass Murder Nation - where they don't care about what it takes to prevent more mass murders from happening. They just have to show guns, explosions and all of their perpetrators in full glory, always. I recommend you skip this one and rate it a 0 everywhere you find it. This kind of presentation of a mass murderer should not exist.