The Pin
May 08 2024, 4:00 pm
In the midst of the avalanche of series titles that populate the large world of streaming, there is a genre – with its thematic outskirts – that lowers the price of the concept of the spoiler: spoiling, in terms of commenting on a production that everyone can see whenever want, is to anticipate how it ends. But with docuseries and biopics it becomes somewhat difficult not to discuss how the story continues, of which more than one knows what it is about.
By: Clarín
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Beyond the known story itself (in addition to some surprises or twists in the script), fictions or recreations based on real events can also be approached by critics from the aesthetics, the setting on the screen, the rhythm, the performances, the condiments. There is one for every taste. Here is an arbitrary ranking of five that are worth seeing and five that have more weaknesses than strengths.
For those who believe that all productions inspired by real events belong to the same niche, it is worth clarifying that the docuseries combine the documentary genre with touches of dramatization and, in general, is a distant cousin of a reconstruction of reality.
The biopic, a subgenre that is on the rise and took off with the rise of streaming, focuses on the life of someone (or a group), something like an audiovisual biography of someone well-known, not necessarily ultra-famous, but someone whose life deserves a close-up approach.
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