Re: Until the End of the World
Catherine Nash (cmn4u@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU)
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:49:04 -0500 (EST)
soooooo long.
That movie could probably have had AT LEAST half an hour taken out without
losing anything, and I agree that the second part should've been made more
of a focus.
Do you think Henry (I think that's who I mean - I was paying attention to
detail - honest!) was trying to make himself into God? If dreams are, as
was said, the soul, then he was playing about with something pretty
precious to a lot of people. It was literally possible to bring dead
people back to the living with his machine. But a dead world could not be
rejuvenated back to a living one.
I don't think the film spent enough
time looking at that kind of thing - it was almost like an afterthought,
and this is why, for me, at least, the ending was lame. (I was REALLY
hoping that plane was going to crash...)
Did anyone else notice the kind of mime-type background in the french
scenes? It reminded me of the bit in "Empire of the Sun" where they're
inthe car and the camera is looking through the windows with the
characters into a truly eerie fancy dress parade. I'm not entirely sure
why I connected those - maybe because there was such a sense of
the main characters' detachment from the rest of the world.
Cath Nash