miniseries closed circle This is the director’s third collaboration steven soderbergh with screenwriter Ed Solomon, hand in hand at three o’clock HBOeven after the miniseries Mosaic with Sharon Stoneand from the movie With Benicio del Toro, without a hitch, Indeed, the director of sex, lies and videotape It has remained unreleased in theaters for years and has become a fixture on the prestigious platform where it dares magic mike’s last dance It’s offering us one of the most interesting portraits of the pandemic in the form of Hitchcockian suspense kmWas released last year.
Soderbergh doesn’t care about format or medium, as long as he can give free rein to his way of making movies or television, but, basically, to describe, what places closed circle Above average, since, despite the fact that it is not one of his most notable works, the style and personality of the man behind the camera is evident when it comes to addressing the story and how he has to tell it.
In this sense, it turns a regular thriller into a miniseries of characters, from which it weaves a network of parallel plots and subplots that give meaning to this mode of narration based on small details. Small household decisions that eventually create a storm of global impact.
In this case, there is also a social component to this expression of the plot, as the story is told from the point of view of a wealthy family and a group of young immigrants from Guyana who discover that the only way to survive is to resettle. Return to your country. In fact, all of the characters are sentenced from the outset, either severely or criminally, and do nothing more than prolong the execution of their sentences in order to maintain their standard of living, their employment, or their hopes. .
As always, Soderbergh surrounds himself with a highly capable cast, who stand out from most Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, CCH Pounder and Dennis QuaidHowever what makes the mini-series engaging is the way in which it plays with all of that and explains the ramifications of a failed kidnapping.