PentHouse Films

Film: The Rum Diary

Year: 2011

Time: 120min

Rating: 6.3/10

A film by Bruce Robinson, this is a film comedy / Triller whose main actor Johnny Depp.

This actor represents the role Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) who, tired of New York, leaves everything behind and accept the offer of Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) to the office of a newspaper reporter in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Satisfied with this new way of life, quickly feel "at home" by adopting a bohemian style, washed down with rum and some drugs. Things get complicated when he becomes emotionally involved with Chenault (Amber Heard), a beautiful fiancee of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), one of the most powerful and corrupt citizens of the city.

As a subplot that revolves around Kemp's passion for the beautiful Chenault (Amber Heard) at one point dominates the film, this ideal location - deliver sweet blonde villain bureaucratic and give her a love to match his joy of life - radiates throughout the relationship that Kemp has with Puerto Rico and its people (also exotic and vivid, with their cockfights, its carnival and its sorceries). But that relationship only goes so far. Diary ... is more a film about the sudden discovery of other than on the discovery of a possible influence that this may have on another.

 When your boss asks you a laudatory article on the last business Sanderson comes the dilemma: do what you ask or take the opportunity to reveal that huge web of corruption.

It is based on the homonymous novel written by the American journalist Hunter S. Thompson when he was only 22 years old.

Personal Comment:

What Robinson's film is most interesting, therefore, is one of the exact moments in which we can see the genesis of gonzo: when Kemp (after drinking the whole movie, which favors) experiences acid and, under the influence of piscotropic, "change" literally the reality around them. Fear and Loathing takes this to the extreme, is the order of the physical world changed completely on the trip - and individual transferable - LSD. On The Rum Diary, this transformation of the surroundings is more subtle but no less definite and defining.