‘One Battle After Another’ Star Leonardo DiCaprio on Why ‘It Feels Like Real People’

One battle after the other follows the story of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ex-revolutionary who, after many years in exile, is suddenly propelled in a race to save his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) and confront his destructive past.

Instead of looking at a story of Papa Morteat Formula, one battle after the other follows a damaged man who does his best to fight trauma to come to his daughter – even if he has no idea what he does most of the time.

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I suppose that the sinking in which he gets caught is what is happening when you have a criminal past to whom you run and a teenage girl that you try to protect who really does not know much about the life you live.

Needless to say, there is a ditch between them.

“You know, it is this ex-revolutionary who tries to refer to her daughter, but they are then in the middle of a fight,” said DiCaprio during press interviews for the film. “They don’t get along; they are disconnected, then all of a sudden, his past comes back to haunt him.”

Before the birth of his daughter, Bob was the expert in explosives in a revolutionary group called French 75. He was known by names like Ghetto Pat and Rocket Man. He and his girlfriend, Perfedia (Teyana Taylor), won their lives by exploding the establishment (literally).

Then their daughter entered the photo.

A battle after another returns the parental script and puts Bob in the role of dad at home (and naturally panicked). Perfidia does not take well to domestic life and returns to its revolutionary paths, to return to a life of disturbance. Things do not end well.

Sixteen years later, Bob and Willa live a life of isolation. Instead of dealing with his own demons, he drowns the damage of his past with drugs and alcohol.

And then his past catches up with them. Suddenly, Bob rushes to pick up the pieces and save his daughter’s life, while Willa discovers hidden truths on his line that makes her question, well, everything.

The generational trauma is really zero.

It goes without saying that the family presents itself in several forms. In one battle after the other, he appears to be a father without idea who finds it difficult to connect with his voluntary teenage daughter, a group of revolutionaries trying to cause justice and the immigrant families that we see throughout the film, is detained or inaugurated in terms of security.

All this is what makes up the world of the history of the film, and although these are visuals that can feel a little close to them for many, the real weight of things does not bother the experience of observing the film.

It is a narrative walk on the tightrope, and the co-star Benicio del Toro explains why it works so well.

“My character is involved in moving families from one place to another for their safety, you know, to keep families together, because we do not like when families separate,” said the actor, who plays Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, during our cat.

“What Paul did is that he made him very human, full of compassion. I think that with all the subjects, all the extremes that are shown in this film, he does it and he shows you without taking a position and without forcing a point. Like Leo says, without giving you the impression of taking medication. In the end, the film on love.”

This love manifests itself in several ways. Of all the moments of the film, I come back to a disposable line that Bob says exasperated Sensei as they cross the desert. He says he doesn’t know how to make his daughter’s hair.

So many dads watching this film can probably relate to this statement. But there is a cultural weight to these words which adds another layer to the disconnection of Bob of his daughter and his despair to recover it.

“It is one of the details and moments, in particular, which came directly from Paul Thomas Anderson,” continued DiCaprio. “In fact, I had a conversation with his stepfather the other day, who said:” I am the one who told him “about his daughter Maya [Rudolph]. “I can’t get his hair.” He said he had become emotional at that time. It was a family story that he tried to relate to his daughter and do not know how to style himself. “”

Dicaprio added: “This is what I like in the way Paul has set up this whole structure. It is in this constant mode of despair to try to recover it. It is beautifully written in this way, and it’s just real. It’s like real people who are defective and linked.”