A biopic that's way too boring

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 30, 2010 --

A victim of adventure Amelia discovers the thrill of flying at a young age. George Putnam, a businessman who takes a fancy to her spirit, helps finance her first transatlantic flight in which she is just a co-pilot. Over the years they fall in love but the call of the skies never allows Amelia to belong on the ground. She scales every possible peak in aviation and finally decides to fly across the globe. At 39 on the final leg of her adventure Amelia Earhart disappeared some where over the Pacific and became a legend. Amelia Earhart has been hailed as a dreamer, a visionary and while the film takes all the elements from her life it doesn’t do anything to mount the tale. The film antagonizes the viewer to the point of boredom thanks to its marriage to the facts.

The film intercuts Amelia’s life from 23 to 39 with her final adventure and the screenplay of the film is tediously boring at times. This is a tale about a woman who broke all shackles but some where the film is tied down to traditionalism. Of course biopics can’t be much different from facts but a life as fascinating as Amelia Earhart warrants some thing less boring! A film that stays true to the events surprisingly omits some interesting facets of Earhart’s life. The sequence that illustrates the first Santa Monica-Cleveland Women’s Air Derby of 1929 simply shows Earhart coming third in the race but just doesn’t reveal the reason.

It’s said that Amelia delayed her take off to help a fellow lady pilot to safety whose plane flipped over after a collision with a tractor, which resulted in her third place shows great character and yet the screenplay leaves this out. However there is a lot to get impressed with in Amelia if you like period films. Mira Nair’s extracts a nuanced performance from Hilary Swank, who not only imbibes Earhart’s physicality but also gets into the skin of the character. There is a striking resemblance between the actor and the aviatrix that gets better with Stuart Dryburgh’s cinematography and a fine production design.

The camerawork with some shot taking manages to convey Amelia’s isolation amongst the people and her sense of freedom when she is flying. Mira Nair’s film was supposed celebrate the life of Amelia Earhart and be an ode to one of the most influential women in modern American history but ends up being a dish that had promised to be a feast but took so long to cook that most people left with empty stomachs!

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