Movie Review: Crazy Heart

This week I saw the movie Crazy Heart which was directed by Scoot Cooper and the main character was portraid by Jeff Bridges (this movie made him win an oscar and an academy award). He plays the part of Bad Blake, an old country singer who finds it more difficult to be in shows and create records. While he is on a local tour around the U.S we find out that he is an alcoholic and casanova. In a town, his piano player tells him about his niecce, which is a reporter and wants to interview him. That woman is named Jean Craddock and is portraid by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Strangely, they fall in love with each other and during that time, and because he almost lost Jean son, Bad gets inspired and clean (of alcohol) and starts to create songs for a young and famous country singer. The movie ends with Bad Blake happy and with money and Jean is engaged with someone else, both taking their own way.
The movie was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and because of its influence of country the clothing and talking was influenced by that cultural tendency, gaving the characters really believing portrays and characteristics to them. In the concerts, the director chose to focus more the band than the audience, making the people see the power and energy that bad had, with also the struggles and problems he had to face while singing in front of an audience which adored him and his songs. His problem with alcohol made him see more human and vulnerable even thought he was a ladies man he fell truly in love and was sad when Jean left him. Really a good movie, which centers in the evolution of the character and its music and shows us that life has different ways of bringing happiness and that it doesnt always come in the way we want it.