Taking advantage of my mother’s home video library on a visit home for the hoildays, I decided to treat myself to an old fashioned movie marathon. I decided on a double feature with cartoon and film short to start (sans Pathé news)…
Movie Marathon Entry the Second:
Is life on the run worth living? There is a Borges story in which a man about to be shot by a firing squad regrets that he has not finished his novel and is granted time in him mind to finish it before the bullets pierce him. Enrico’s approach here is naturalistic, but this story has a twist.
Without giving it away, I will just remark that the vistim’s opening view of the creek from the plank may be the most devastating POV shot in all of film history. Also powerful are the twirling trees and the aiming eye. Use of sound is spare - mainly just splashes and rifle blasts. The soldiers orders are garbled, then clear. The only music is a brief refrain of the blues Livin' Man. At the end, he laughs. Or is it the end? Drum roll please.
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