The fate of Argentine soccer, or rather, in an incomprehensible failure of his career, there is a mystery, fascination for any film-maker. The question is how to approach this slippery and obviously painful for the hero theme. Kusturica, as he asserts in the film absolutely not going to poke his nose into other people's affairs and to play the role of the paparazzi, but only wanted to draw a portrait of a great man. Director fails to ask provocative questions and does not require a public confession of his hero: the film is built in format relaxed conversation. But again and again Maradona before the camera exposes himself and regrets about the years of life, cast cocaine. Kusturica does not make this topic intriguing film - for this he is too human. Unless, . it becomes the nerve pattern, . her emotions and the driving force, . against the background of, . discusses how social inequality, . Revolution and football. 'If this man does not become a footballer, . he became a revolutionary ', . - Authoritatively reported behind the scenes director, . while Maradona shows his tattoos with faces of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro,
. 'Player-century' talks about poverty, in absentia refuses to shake hands Prince Charles ( 'Well, this, from England') and send America to hell. Diluted his relaxed monologues of the best pieces of cutting heads, . data under the hit 'Sex Pistols' 'God save the queen'. riddle collapse idol Kusturica puts on clothes recklessness, . if not Gypsy, . some Latin, . - And clearly has in mind a certain brotherhood of nations,
. ''Sex Pistols 'world football' - so doth his hero's director, drawing a new image of Maradona: man-provocateur, the man-jokes, the man-god. It appears rather monotonous, despite the insertion of cartoonish George W. Bush (in the picture he is for an antagonist) and the Church of Maradona, which created a near Buenos Aires, fans man-legends. The conflict, which actually makes the film lies not here. It arises from a purely visual contrast between the frames of old chronicles and filming the last two years. Handsome football virtuoso scoring, causing a serious thought about divine intervention in the game. But Maradona is in the image of Falstaff, as tactfully expressed director, sings a song in a bar in his honor. Daughters, childhood where he missed because of drugs, are on both sides of a legendary father, overlying a whole scene. The audience raised glasses. And together they sing, praising the 'Hand of God'. By inflame emotions, . which gives this episode, . can judge the masterful construction of the film, . which works exactly, . as conceived, . and in spite of the apparent relaxation never allow tyranny. Kusturica gives Diego the usual features of its own heroes - rebelliousness, . nobility and courage of a dreamer, . and almost not direct claims, . Mol, . 'I am the same, . as you, . Hooligan ',
. What does all this have to do the real figure Maradona - remains an issue. But context is important. In recent years, Maradona held for drug control, overweight and alcohol, his name always appears in the press in connection with another scandal, as if any mention of a football genius irrevocably irrelevant. Against this background, 'Maradona' Kusturica presents an original method of rehabilitation of the great football. Director does not try to whitewash or justify his hero, he simply considers it separately from the secured him a halo scandalousness. We Kusturica instead of gossip really get a portrait. There is a miracle: the god of football, the idol, retired again becomes a man.