Skybird
10-17-08, 07:45 PM
What a wonderfully subversive, devious nasty little movie I have just seen in the night program!
I expected nothing, but then enjoyed to get lulled by the calm directing and the non-spectacular but solid presentation of the story, the nice pictures, the sure hand in creating the overall style, all that was very well done for a low-budget movie, the suspense was not thrilling, but that is okay since the movie did not wish to be a screaming FX-thriller anyway. you know that there is something suspicious going on, but you feel dull - but when an old lady thanks the community at a village festival suddenly, and one second later falls down one meter and breaks her neck and hangs with a smile on her face, then this is something that catches your attention. the unfolding of the explanation for this is a perverting of logic that is so circular that it already is consistent again and makes a diabolic sense in itself.
But having checked the feedback at movie websites and amazon, it seems not many of the audience have realised what a bitter and sarcastic social criticsm of the anonymous pressure of groups and their circular self-justification this movie is.
"Population 436" - calm story telling, relaxing pictures of a fake idyll, a wonderful landscape and a divious point that reveals quite something about our social reality.
Recommended!
I expected nothing, but then enjoyed to get lulled by the calm directing and the non-spectacular but solid presentation of the story, the nice pictures, the sure hand in creating the overall style, all that was very well done for a low-budget movie, the suspense was not thrilling, but that is okay since the movie did not wish to be a screaming FX-thriller anyway. you know that there is something suspicious going on, but you feel dull - but when an old lady thanks the community at a village festival suddenly, and one second later falls down one meter and breaks her neck and hangs with a smile on her face, then this is something that catches your attention. the unfolding of the explanation for this is a perverting of logic that is so circular that it already is consistent again and makes a diabolic sense in itself.
But having checked the feedback at movie websites and amazon, it seems not many of the audience have realised what a bitter and sarcastic social criticsm of the anonymous pressure of groups and their circular self-justification this movie is.
"Population 436" - calm story telling, relaxing pictures of a fake idyll, a wonderful landscape and a divious point that reveals quite something about our social reality.
Recommended!