Timeblind's apocalyptic film review quickies

19 February 2010

 


Timeblind's apocalyptic film review quickies: 

The Book of Eli - Spoiler Alert ! oh shit he's a Muslim !  No, actually this is about Denzel carrying the Bible around and everybody tries to kill him for it (because its a potential  instrument of control). It has a hollywood desert art film vibe (which I can totally get with).  Very black and white, like Stranger than Paradise.  (tho my russian camcorder rip accentuates this).  Denzel Washington is awesome (martial arts, chaste, a sober survivalist) and everybody else follows his lead.  That chick from that 70s show is still hawt and obviously was just playing dumb on aforementioned show.

The Road - way less fun, way more depressing, but this shows more realistically what you could expect from psychologically damaged people in a post-apocalyptic world.  At first I thought that The Son (born post-apocalypse) had too normal of an American accent considering he's only known The Father in his entire life.  He should be more feral, or more wild and confident.  But he's damaged (the Father keeps him in fear and mistrust), and as it goes on he shows his very complicated state.  This apocalypse holds little hope for an afterwards.  You really think after the film is done: ok, they survived, but for how long ? With all the pianos, the moralistic tone ("we would never eat people, would we ?") and lack of rape scenes, this is almost PG and moralistic, considering its a post-apoc cannibal flick.  Doesn't that say a lot about our weird society that I can sum it up that way ?  Our value system is so deranged.

Right now I'm going to watch: Music is the Weapon . Fela Kuti doc !!!!  Alreadylooks great.

The Book of Eli - Spoiler Alert ! oh shit he's a Muslim !  No, actually this is about Denzel carrying the Bible around and everybody tries to kill him for it (because its a potential instrument of control). It has a hollywood desert art film vibe (which I can totally get with).  Very black and white, like Stranger than Paradise.  (tho my russian camcorder rip accentuates this).  Denzel Washington is awesome (martial arts, chaste, a sober survivalist) and everybody else follows his lead.  That chick from that 70s show is still hawt and obviously was just playing dumb on aforementioned show.


The Road - way less fun, way more depressing, but this shows more realistically what you could expect from psychologically damaged people in a post-apocalyptic world.  At first I thought that The Son (born post-apocalypse) had too normal of an American accent considering he's only known The Father in his entire life.  He should be more feral, or more wild and confident.  But he's damaged (the Father keeps him in fear and mistrust), and as it goes on he shows his very complicated state.  This apocalypse holds little hope for an afterwards.  You really think after the film is done: ok, they survived, but for how long ? With all the pianos, the moralistic tone ("we would never eat people, would we ?") and lack of rape scenes, this is almost PG and moralistic, considering its a post-apoc cannibal flick.  Doesn't that say a lot about our weird society that I can sum it up that way ?  Our value system is so deranged.


Right now I'm going to watch: Music is the Weapon . Fela Kuti doc !!!! Already looks great.


 


 


 


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