Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HUMANITY
Today's film was the documentary
Four seemingly different life stories merge together in a line of development that shows how common the human experience is or can be.
Four men tell their history and experience.
A Greek model is used as a background and a tie in.
Euripides.
Puppets intersect the narration by the four protagonists to illustrate the director's ideas.
This also shows how timeless the sequence of life is.
It is very hard to convey how this works in the film but it is all quite wonderfully effective.
These are all extreme people but it is clear that what they have experienced is no less possible for any one of us.
I identified with a great deal of it.
This is a beautiful piece of work deserving of a 5 out of Netflix5.
And don't be put off by the Greek stuff. It is right up our 21st Century alley.
