Martin Eden review – a stylish Italian take on Jack London s novel | Drama films
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The terrible loneliness of success is the subject of this absorbing movie, equal in some strange way to the loneliness of failure; itâs also about the secret and shameful feeling that failure is the one truthful state of being, which the successful person has had to renounce. Martin Eden is also about capitalism and enterprise and the great 20th-century promise that hard work and an audacious gamble on a certain career path at the start of oneâs life can carry anyone, however lowly born, on to riches. And more importantly, it is about the dizzying promise that the mass communication made possible by commerce will make art itself lucrative: that actually writing novels, capturing the imagination of millions, could exalt you to heroic celebrity.