Análisis cinematográfico de El aceite de la vida (Lorenzo’s Oil) (1992)

Abstract

Lorenzo’s oil is a movie that adapts itself perfectly to the script paradigm promulgated by Syd Field: a structure of three acts with a trigger in its planning, an easily distinguishable first  plot point, a midpoint in its core, a clearcut second plot point and a climax in its unravelling.  This film, which could have been no more than a ";movie star vehicle";, offers quite a lot of interesting details such as some sub-plot, certain symbolisms, some well-defined characters, some camera movements... However, it also has certain shortcomings as for its screenplay (which sometimes falls into an easy sentimentalism). The movie offers an approach and a quite simple explanation to such a little-known illness as ALD. Nevertheless, in the picture the desease is just a dramatic device to present us a family that suffers and fights against all kinds of barriers.