タイトルの「One Battle After Another」で直訳すれば「戦い、また戦い」であり、日本語字幕では「戦闘また戦闘」と訳されていました。これは終わりなき闘争の連鎖をそのまま言葉にしたタイトルといえます。これが単なるアクション映画の煽り文句ではなく、物語の本質そのものを凝縮した言葉であり、親世代が戦い、次世代が戦いを引き継いでいく。そしてエンドクレジットでそのバトンは、画面の向こうの私たちへと渡されます。
How do you get the actor talking? Put him in a room with Paul Thomas Anderson. During hours of conversation, two era-defining men—on the record together for the first time—went deep. They cracked some jokes, too.
For the first time since 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson has made a movie with a contemporary setting. To do so, he used a film format dormant for the last half century.
ラストで語られる母ペルフィーディアの言葉、「We failed. Maybe you will not. Maybe you will be the one who puts the world right.(私たちは失敗した。でもあなたなら世界をよくできるかもしれない)」は、次世代への希望のバトンです。革命という言葉は政治的な意味を超え、目の前の人を愛することから始まる個人の小さな革命へと昇華されます。
“It’s one of his most entertaining films. Paul Thomas Anderson proves again what an audacious director he is — the editing is solid, balanced, with long sequence shots spanning action scenes.”
「監督の最もエンターテインメント性の高い作品のひとつ。長回しとアクションが完璧に噛み合っている」
“DiCaprio gives a carefully modulated turn, playing the hazy immediacy of a character who may not be a leader of the cause but remains loyal to it. He puts his passion into the revolution when needed, but anchors this role in the love a father has for his daughter.”
“It wants to be grand, relevant, provocative — and in parts it succeeds — but just doesn’t hold it together. In the end, there’s no clear overall message, just a lot of battles, one after another.”
“A timeless story of resistance, one that playfully weaves together influences as broad-reaching as the true story of Weather Underground. It’s a remarkably propulsive, fun, and eventually moving piece of work about the human beings caught up in the chaotic machine.”
“It’s a prescient, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious and fearlessly political piece of work. It’s also an action thriller staged on an epic canvas, with harrowing gunfights, daring rooftop escapes and poundingly visceral car chases.”
“Anderson knows that what frees DiCaprio is the comedy. By casting him as the stoned, bewildered, wayward Bob — a man who’s lost his faith and his way — he humanizes DiCaprio and draws out a spectacular performance.”
“A towering achievement in Paul Thomas Anderson’s already illustrious filmography — a cinematic classic of sweeping visual grandeur that deserves to be experienced again and again.”