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| Directed by | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Produced by | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Salerno |
| Written by | Guillermo Arriaga |
| Starring | Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro |
| Music by | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Editing by | Stephen Mirrione |
| Distributed by | Focus Features |
| Release date(s) | September 5, 2003 |
| Running time | 124 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$20,000,000 |
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21 Grams is a 2003 drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. Alejandro González Iñárritu (i'ɲaritu born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Alejandro González Iñárritu (i'ɲaritu born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Robert Salerno is an American Film producer, best known for being a producer of the film 21 Grams with Alejandro González Iñárritu Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Gustavo A Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951, in El Palomar, Argentina) is an Argentine Musician, Film composer Stephen Mirrione (born February 17 1969 in Santa Clara County California) is an American Film editor. Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal 's Universal Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The year 2003 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings The Return Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Alejandro González Iñárritu (i'ɲaritu born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer.
Like Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's previous movie, Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams is a movie which interweaves several plot lines, this time around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident. Amores perros is a Mexican Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000 Penn plays a critically ill academic mathematician, Watts plays a grief stricken mother, and del Toro plays an ex-convict whose newly discovered Christianity is sorely tested in the aftermath of an accident. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
The movie was shot in chronological order, but is edited in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after the accident. The three main characters each have 'past' 'present' and 'future' story threads, which are shown as non-linear fragments that punctuate elements of the overall story, all imminently coming toward each other and coalescing as the story progresses. Iñárritu may have been influenced by the silent film Intolerance (1916), though his approach is more complex. Intolerance Love's Struggle Through the Ages, a Silent film directed by D
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Plot
As previously mentioned, the film is edited in a non-linear manner. The following is a linear, chronological summary of the plot:
Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro) is a former convict who is using his newfound Christian faith to recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. A convict is "a person found guilty of a Crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison" sometimes referred to in Slang A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Faith is a Belief in the trustworthiness of an Idea. Formal usage of the word "faith" is usually reserved for concepts of Religion, as in In Chemistry, an alcohol is any Organic compound in which a Hydroxyl group ( - O[[hydrogen H]]) is bound to a Carbon The term " addiction " is used in many contexts to describe an obsession compulsion or excessive Physical dependence or psychological dependence such as
Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is a mathematics professor with a deteriorating heart condition who is less than a month from death unless he receives a new heart from an organ donor. Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and The heart is a muscular organ in all Vertebrates responsible for pumping Blood through the Blood vessels by repeated rhythmic Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the Human body from a person who has recently Died, or from a living donor for the purpose of transplanting Paul is badgered by his wife to donate his sperm so she can have a baby (presumably after his death). A wife is a Female spouse or participant in a Marriage, or Civil union or Civil partnership. The term sperm is derived from the Greek word (σπέρμα sperma (meaning "seed" and refers to the male reproductive cells. Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific The two are civil to one another, yet distant.
Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts) is also recovering from drug addiction, and now lives a normal suburban life with a supportive husband and two children. Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Drug addiction is widely considered a pathological state. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute Drug use to the development of drug-seeking A husband is a Male spouse (participant in a Marriage, Civil union or Civil partnership. CHILD syndrome (or congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects) is a genetic disorder She is a loving mother and active swimmer who left her days of drugs and booze behind.
These three separate stories/characters become tied together one evening when Jack runs over Cristina's husband and children with his truck in a hit-and-run accident, killing them. This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck. Her husband's heart is donated to Paul, who begins his recovery.
Cristina is devastated by the loss and turns to the drugs (2CB & ketamine) along with alcohol to ease her pain. 2C-B or 4-bromo-25-dimethoxyphenethylamine is a psychedelic drug of the 2C family, an entactogen. Ketamine is a drug for use in human and veterinary medicine developed by Parke-Davis (today a part of Pfizer) in 1962 Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic Affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm Paul is excited about starting his new life and hesitantly agrees to his wife's idea of surgery and artificial insemination as a last-ditch effort to get pregnant. Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental AIH redirects here For the indie rock band abbreviated AIH see Architecture in Helsinki Artificial insemination (AI is the process by which During consultations with a doctor before the surgery, Paul learns that his wife had aborted their child previously when the pair had just separated. Disgusted by this, Paul considers the abortion to be the last straw in their marriage. An He ends their relationship, then becomes very inquisitive about whose heart he has. He learns from a source that the heart belonged to Cristina's husband. He begins to follow the widowed Cristina around town.
After running over the kids and husband, Jack is horrified at what happened. Despite his wife's protests to keep quiet and conceal his guilt, Jack tells her that his "duty is to God" and turns himself in. God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. Incarcerated in a dilapidated jail cell, he claims that God betrayed him and, soon enough, loses his will to live, trying unsuccessfully to commit suicide. He is released after Cristina declines to press charges, as she realizes that Jack's jailing will not bring her loved ones back. When Jack is released, he is unable to reincorporate himself into his normal family life, instead leaving home to lead a transient worker existence. Family denotes a group of People affiliated by consanguinity affinity or co-residence Wracked by guilt and the failure of his life, he works a manual labor job and burns off his newer tattoos (of a Christian nature) with a hot knife. ---- Guilt is the Fact, state or Verdict (by a Court or other Tribunal) of an Offence, Crime, Violation A knife is a handheld sharp-edged instrument consisting of handle attached to a Blade used for cutting
Paul uses an opportunity to meet with Cristina and he eventually reveals how the two of them are connected. Desperately needing one another, they begin to fall in love. Though Paul has a new heart, his body is rejecting the surgery - and Paul's outlook is grim. Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental As Cristina begins to dwell more on her changed life and the death of her girls, she decides Jack must die. She guilts Paul into helping to murder him.
Paul meets with the person who originally tracked down Cristina for him and finds out information about Jack from him. He also purchases a gun from him. Then, he and Cristina check into a small-town motel where Jack is also staying, as he is working nearby. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, a Portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred When Jack is walking alone, Paul grabs him and leads him out into a clearing at gunpoint, with the intention of killing him. Paul is unable to kill Jack, who himself is confused, shaking and pleading during the happening. Paul tells Jack to "just disappear" then returns back to the motel, lying to Cristina about Jack's "death. " Later that night, while they are sleeping, Paul and Cristina are awakened by a knock on the door. It's Jack, who, still consumed by guilt and inner torment, now orders Paul to kill him and end his misery. There is a struggle, and Cristina manages to blind-side Jack and begins beating him with a wooden lamp. Paul shoots himself with the gun as he is having a heart attack and doesn't want to die from asphyxia. A gun is a particular Weapon that propels Projectiles The projectile is generally fired through a hollow tube known as the gun's barrel.
Jack and Cristina rush Paul to the hospital. A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for Jack tries to convince the police that he shot Paul, but is released due to contradicting statements by everybody involved and lack of evidence, despite him insisting his guilt. The drama between Cristina and Jack remains unresolved (they meet in the waiting room after Paul's death, but do not speak). Cristina learns in the hospital that she is pregnant. After Paul's death, Cristina is seen tentatively preparing for the new child and Jack is shown returning home to his family.
Awards
The movie was nominated in the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Benicio del Toro) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Naomi Watts). Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to
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The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Stephen Mirrione (born February 17 1969 in Santa Clara County California) is an American Film editor. Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer 9th BFCA Critics' Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. 8th FFCC Awards Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 7th LVFCS Awards Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Mystic River is an American Drama film released in 2003 directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins 29th LAFCA Awards Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 75th NBR Awards Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Mystic River is an American Drama film released in 2003 directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins 7th OFCS Awards Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Alejandro González Iñárritu (i'ɲaritu born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer The Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS is an organization of film reviewers from Phoenix -based publications Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Stephen Mirrione (born February 17 1969 in Santa Clara County California) is an American Film editor. Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer 8th Golden Satellite Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Mystic River is an American Drama film released in 2003 directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 12th SEFCA Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 2nd WDCAFCA Naomi Ellen Watts (born September Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19 1967 is a Puerto Rican Actor and Film producer. Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author screenwriter and producer 3rd World Gustavo A Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951, in El Palomar, Argentina) is an Argentine Musician, Film composer Dr Duncan MacDougall (c 1866 &ndash 15 October 1920) was an early 20th century physician in Haverhill Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and thus measurable. These experiments are widely considered to have little, if any scientific merit, and MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, but for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding [1]
See also
- Hyperlink cinema - the film style of using multiple inter-connected story lines. Hyperlink cinema is a term coined by author Alissa Quart, who used the term in her review of the film Happy Endings (2005 for the film journal
References
External links
- Official website
- 21 Grams at the Internet Movie Database
- Article on the cinematography of 21 Grams from American Cinematographer
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