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In Reply to: RE: Finally saw "The Remnant". One hell of a movie. posted by free.ranger on January 27, 2016 at 16:25:10
Here we have a film about bunches of men men who are, mostly, just trying to make a living. But, what remains when we feel that we must substitute "making a living" for "having a life"? Maybe, what remains is a remnant, and the root of all evil?What remains is "realism" (and occasionally, "magic realism") at it's best. The "actors" in this film rarely seem like *actors* to me. Rather, they seem like "props", mostly. Film props, caught within a torrent of action on film.
And while the photography is beautiful, I am reminded that even the best nature photography rarely captures the true look and feel of *nature*. Literal translation inevitably falls hard on it's knees here. In photography, as in some other things, the harder we try to "save" a thing the more miserably we fail at doing so...
And perhaps, this is all to the point. When life is lost, or when life eludes capture, all that remains is... PROPS?
Thumbs Up.
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