December 29, 2023
Dead Man's Letters - 1986 - Konstantin Lopushansky
I thought i'd begin something that hopefully would last till i die of a heart attack or something, a long running thing, as long as possible. I choose to begin with an apocalyptic film called Dead Man's Letters as the perfect beginning. I love the sepia tone in this which is reminiscent of Tarkovsky's Stalker but oh so much more gritty, it looks more real to me.
I really love films which aren't tainted by the prettification process, to show reality warts and all, Godard's Les carabiniers is a good example of this, so if you see those kinds you know more than however i could describe it.
I read online earlier how some billionaires are buying underground bunkers, seems like some big shit's gonna go down, and the "important" people are gonna make sure they stick around. In Dead Man's Letters i see real people though, and i'll always rather see real in films than make upped people.
It does indeed check off some depressing points, a constant eerie mechanical sound you can hear in Eraserhead, the decrepitude is similar to Visions of Suffering, made some 20 years after this one, which i found on YouTube.
I hope to be able to find any film people recommend on the depressing film post and so on, why depressing? Why is that so important to me? Well i hope to find out exactly why over the course of my tenure here and in this thread. If it's not self evident yet.
Might watch HBO's Chernobyl sometime soon also, as this prefigures that event.
One shouldn't think this is a film without hope or a heart, it does, it just depicts the end, a touching speech is given well into the film, i notice after a few meal scenes that they have the same proportions, on a ration, once that food's up they'll be goners as well. But before there was a very nice poetic moment with opera, a voice whispering and nuclear explosion footage. I think i saw that this director was a protege of Tarkovsky, it shows, Tarkovsky imo has way more aesthetic qualities, whereas this film show the squalor and utter ruin of an atmosphere better.
Dead Man's Letters - 1986 - Konstantin Lopushansky
I thought i'd begin something that hopefully would last till i die of a heart attack or something, a long running thing, as long as possible. I choose to begin with an apocalyptic film called Dead Man's Letters as the perfect beginning. I love the sepia tone in this which is reminiscent of Tarkovsky's Stalker but oh so much more gritty, it looks more real to me.
I really love films which aren't tainted by the prettification process, to show reality warts and all, Godard's Les carabiniers is a good example of this, so if you see those kinds you know more than however i could describe it.
I read online earlier how some billionaires are buying underground bunkers, seems like some big shit's gonna go down, and the "important" people are gonna make sure they stick around. In Dead Man's Letters i see real people though, and i'll always rather see real in films than make upped people.
It does indeed check off some depressing points, a constant eerie mechanical sound you can hear in Eraserhead, the decrepitude is similar to Visions of Suffering, made some 20 years after this one, which i found on YouTube.
I hope to be able to find any film people recommend on the depressing film post and so on, why depressing? Why is that so important to me? Well i hope to find out exactly why over the course of my tenure here and in this thread. If it's not self evident yet.
Might watch HBO's Chernobyl sometime soon also, as this prefigures that event.
One shouldn't think this is a film without hope or a heart, it does, it just depicts the end, a touching speech is given well into the film, i notice after a few meal scenes that they have the same proportions, on a ration, once that food's up they'll be goners as well. But before there was a very nice poetic moment with opera, a voice whispering and nuclear explosion footage. I think i saw that this director was a protege of Tarkovsky, it shows, Tarkovsky imo has way more aesthetic qualities, whereas this film show the squalor and utter ruin of an atmosphere better.
Last edited by Jeff; 12-29-23 at 04:10 AM.