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I caught this on Friday night on C4. (Well, actually I taped it and watched it today, but you get the drift.)
And was pleasnatly surprised/intrigued by it. I don't really want to spoil too much by explaining the plot, but it's quite hard to spoil for people in future given so much of it bar the basic "storyline" is just so, well, surreal.
Interesting to see such a well thought-out consideration of what isn't a hugely popular topic in films - the existence of God. There's some amazingly effective imagery in the first half (the crosses, moon, and a wonderful shot of Kane's head, with two tiny crosses either side of him on the chairs and the shadow of the third above him. The revelation halfway through is effective and slickly done, but I found the second half just... less imaginative? Less interesting? It doesn't have the surreal, peculiar nature of the fantastic first half. I really liked the ending, though.
There's some really effective use of soundtrack dubbing - it's never clear if it's actually what's being said, or simply Kane's imagination, in those opening group scenes. It's very dreamlike - an interesting counterpoint to Lynch - and has some great editing in that first half. I'm just peeved the second half is so disinteresting compared to the first.
But yeah. Could anyone else who's seen it discuss? There's a lot in there waiting to get out... I'm just not phrasing myself so well at the moment... |
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