Ridley Scott Many cameras, many projects, many bad grapes
Ridley Scott has had a weird few years.
As a film director, one of lime and one of sand: the success of
The House of Gucci
contrasts with the hit of
The Last Duel
.
As a TV producer, his name continues to shine in the magnificent
The Good Fight
... and raises excessive expectations in
Raised by Wolves
.
Precisely because it was sponsored by Scott, who in addition to producing it directed its first two episodes, this science fiction series created by Aaron Guzikowski aroused enormous interest before its premiere.
However, the minimalism and
relative novelty of his visual proposal soon wore out
.
On the other hand, her scripts always confused simplicity with laziness.
With these shortcomings, there is no
high concept
that can sustain a series.
In its newly released second season, Raised by Wolves
' aesthetic
no longer seems clean and expensive, but suitably thrifty and tricky.
In recent years, the lowering of post-production costs has allowed countless science fiction series to see the light of day.
It's also something that highlights what we've always known: a concept and a
look
ca n't
sustain a story for more than a couple of hours
.
Because without a good narrative framework behind it, and
Raised by Wolves
does not have it, everything collapses.
That is why science fiction that trusts everything to an inspired occurrence or a specific visual trick is capable of producing decent movies but not series that we want to see beyond the second chapter.
Something tells me that the third
Raised by Wolves
, the first that Ridley Scott doesn't direct,
doesn't even interest him
.
Does the series have good moments?
Undoubtedly.
Are they worth the effort, in time and attention, to reach them?
No.
In that trap of the rich concept and the poor script they have lately fallen from the
Apple TV +
Foundation
to Netflix 's
Cowboy Bebop .
Even a film as ambitious as
Dennis Villeneuve 's
Dune
is aware of its size and doses its imagery
carefully, lest its last stretch be repetitive.
In his own way,
Raised by Wolves
also tries to dose, but the overdose of beauty and concept of its start makes it difficult to up the ante.
A tribe of children raised by two androids on a planet as hostile as it is
breathtakingly photogenic
was an extreme and attractive starting point.
And more if you enter fully into metaphysical and religious dilemmas.
In the world raised
by Raised by Wolves
, religion is more present than ever, the miracle of life is perpetually questioned, and
the latex that covers Amanda Collin looks like Mugler couture
.
The Danish actress, a great find, is the robot mother and governess of children whose destinies soon cease to matter to us.
That disinterest comes when the movie that could have been
Raised by Wolves
has to start becoming the series that it doesn't know how to be.
And it's a shame.
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