With her disconcerting gesticulation that is both pure ice and scorching fire, this American actress makes the chameleon the essence. To the point that one forgets about the actress to fully enjoy her role. And that happens to a greater extent than any other of the most recognized interpreters, understand Brad Pitt as a reference, who always ends up being more Pitt than his character X.
From the most passionate kindness of the most candid protagonist to the most visceral animosity in her roles that require it. Johansson is one of the best paid because one never knows where she is going to break the interpretation of her turn.
Of course, then there is her indisputable attractiveness, like Pitt, with which she immediately wins over the stunned viewer with her beauty, capable of the splendor of epic or resilience, as well as oriented towards the unsuspected perversion of her Machiavellian character when it comes to play. . Scarlett Johansson is a superstar who gives any film added value from the start.
Top 3 Recommended Scarlett Johansson Movies
Lucy
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In my time it was already said that the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" pointed to the lysergic with its easy association with LSD (Paul McCartney assured it and Lennon later denied it). The thing is, this Lucy is lysergic to the extreme. Because Lucy (Scarlett) goes from being a simple mule, to introduce a new drug, to the world breaking down for her like a hallucination that crosses planes to the subatomic and beyond.
As Lucy is escaping from our reality, reaching stratospheric brain performance levels, emotions are left behind and the human is reaching from her consciousness the dimension of the divine. There is no longer room for worldly concerns or for major problems other than the mere expansion of her power towards all vectors of the universe.
Of course, our world is behind us with its little things. And the powerful drug that Lucy was preparing to distribute, but ended up exploding inside her body, is something highly demanded by mafias who know of that tremendous potential, without even imagining its dimension.
A persecution that Lucy assumes as a tiny detail in her process of translation into all space and time, but that leads us astray by bringing us spectators and suffering viewers of such a dantesque spectacle.
Match Point
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Chance, things that happen because they do have something of a magical script jump sometimes. Because the most complete fate or luck is always written from a turning point. An unexplained moment that ends up being carefully analyzed by those who suffer the change.
The ball falls on one side or the other depending on mere physics and the precise circumstances that can be marked by the simple flutter of a butterfly, by an air breeze that is equal to the force necessary for the final victory. Nobody controls that, or maybe they do, but in the most hidden way to ensure that everything, from the simple chance meeting between two lovers or the fall of a meteorite, end up forming part of the same narrative thread of a big bang in constant progress with its meticulous dragged away from everything.
It is true that it is a choral work (how could it be otherwise for a Woody Allen enchanted by the branching plots like a creeper) but the character of Nola Rice played by Johansson provides that sensation of triggering everything, of a turning point made flesh and blood, of reason for the explosion of the big bang made into fascinating suspense.
The island
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Scarlett's most CiFi roles always win me over from that capacity of hers for mutation, for the appearance of an automaton that finally breaks towards the most unsuspected horizons. On this occasion, accompanying Ewan McGregor, Scarlett transforms into Jordan Two Delta. Both are clones of personalities from the real world who invest their good millions in them in case they ever have to pull out their organs, when they might be sick.
A life insurance that for them (those personalities that pay for the invention) is nothing more than a mass of organs without life or consciousness, of course. But the creator of the racket knows that without making human beings exactly the same as his original ones, it is not possible to have organs or anything else.
The clones live secluded in a gigantic bunker underground. And so they are little more than lobotomized from their incubation so that they adopt memories of a distant past and of a devastating climate disaster that keeps them there. Until they are lucky to be called and released to live on a pollution-free island.
Of course, that moment of liberation is none other than the call of the primal to remove the kidney in turn or the piece that touches... Until some spark of consciousness awakens in Ewan's clone and the escape plan begins to make its way.