With The Wicker Man getting a 40th anniversary dust-off and re-release, it got me thinking again about how rare it is that a film (or indeed a film-maker) has the stones to really plumb the depths of despair in its finale. It of course goes without saying that plenty of films have dark and desperate moments, but since the general trend is towards the cathartic nature of upbeat endings and our perceived need to go out of the theatre on a high point, lots of the interim darkness is alleviated before the credits finally roll.
Take a film like Schindler’s List. It is hard to make a case for anything in recorded history being as dark and desperate as the Holocaust, yet the tale of rescue and redemption that sits at the core of the film becomes the prevailing emphasis at the end, as the surviving relatives of the...
Take a film like Schindler’s List. It is hard to make a case for anything in recorded history being as dark and desperate as the Holocaust, yet the tale of rescue and redemption that sits at the core of the film becomes the prevailing emphasis at the end, as the surviving relatives of the...
- 9/25/2013
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
David Simon made five seasons of universally acclaimed TV show The Wire, and now he's written the introduction to Rafael Alvarez's The Wire: Truth Be Told to give the full story behind the show. But it gets better: we have an exclusive audio clip of Simon himself reading his introduction to the book, explaining what it's all about. Listen for yourself below.For the three of you who haven't yet joined the Wire groupies, it's a minutely detailed, impressively acted and brilliantly structured look at the war on drugs in Baltimore, Maryland, seen through the eyes of cops (using wire-taps, hence the name), dealers and those caught inbetween. Each season takes a different focus, but the overall structure and many of the characters remain the same over the show's entire run.The Wire: Truth Be Told is out now from Canongate, priced at £20, and the whole series is also out on DVD,...
- 9/30/2009
- EmpireOnline
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