Movie shots in the shadow of a real death

« When looking at so much shooting, it is difficult to forget about shooting, » reads one of the criticism at the premiere of an independent western Rustwho came to American cinemas a few days ago without pomp. The introductory note touches the tragic death of the director of photography Halyne Hutchins.

A sad event from the filming, the story has been dragging through the courts for four years, in critics he awakens the sharpest condemnation, saying that the movie is born of nightmare, that it is difficult to watch, cursed with death and scandals, and is also promised financial Fiasco. His content is more lenient.

For 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, a fatal charge was shot out of a gun during the shoot, which he had in his hands the main actor and producer of the film Alec Baldwin. There should be blind charges in the weapon, but they were real and no one knows how something like this could happen. Armed by Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was postponed to 18 months in prison, and star Baldwin was twice charged with unintentional murder, and he persistently rejected guilt. Last summer, the allegations against Bladwin were surprised to do, the family of the late director of photography paid Baldwin a settlement. Profit from the movie is to be received by a widow of Matthew Hutchins and his son Andros.

« I wish I would never have made this damn movie, » she said in an interview for Guardian emphasized by director Joel Souza, who was also injured in the accident. But Souza returned to the shoot at the request of the peak of the family and completed the rest of the film. The shooting continued before Baldwin was weapon of any guilt.

According to the director, the film speaks precisely about the consequences of violence and problematizes the use of weapons. The World Prime Minister Vesterna was last November at the Cammage International Festival, Poland.