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I finally saw it too, and I'd almost say that "The Remnant" would have been a better title

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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 some bunches of 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 surely remains in this film 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 imagery and action on film.
And while the photography is beautiful, I am reminded that even the best photo-realism rarely (if ever) 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. But perhaps, this is all to the point. Did the director and his fastidious film crew *know* which inevitable result such efforts might bring?
When life is lost, or when life eludes capture, all that remains is... PROPS?
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