“El anillo es tuyo mi amor.” The audience only hears them whispering and sees their hands in a dark room as he confesses to her his fear of the sound and of the bottom of the ocean. Bookends, as stated by James Romm, “serve as a way to make the end of stories come round to their starting point and to mark their completion.” Biutiful’s bookends do just that- it all begins with a scene of Uxbal entrusting his mother’s ring, which was a gift from his father before he fled from Franco and died in Mexico, to his daughter Ana. For this, Iñárritu has received criticism, “Making one character bear the weight of imminent death from cancer, a bipolar wife, and responsibility for both Chinese and African illegal immigration becomes simply ridiculous.” On the otherhand, he has received praise for relying solely on a hand-held camera, which adds a feeling of intimacy and allows the audience to feel like a first-hand participant in the action. Biutiful, on the other hand, is solely centered in a corrupt Barcelona and features a linear plot focusing on a single protagonist.
Iñárritu’s Biutiful is a change of pace for the Mexican artist in the sense that it differs from his distinctive style composed of a transnational setting, multi-protagonists and scrambled narratives.
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Despite coming off as a tragic movie centered around death and corruption, Iñárritu’s bookends highlight the circularity of life. In Alejandro González Iñarritu’s latest film, Biutiful, he cleverly incorporates bookends to illustrate the demise of his protagonist, Uxbal, who is dying from cancer. Used in various disciplines, for example in poetry, writing and cinema, bookends leave the audience with a sense of completion- they witness for themselves the beginning and the end of the work. The bookend technique, where the opening and final scenes are parallel or almost identical, is often utilized in storytelling.
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