Monday, October 29, 2012

The End of Time

documentary

Intriguing, partly successful film. Unfocused, discursive provocative...many stunning visuals, interesting, creative sound design...

We start out at Cern and muck about the LHC. Then we trip all over the world...India, Hawaii, tropical forests, telescope installations...get mind-blowing close-ups of volcanoes complete with sound, lava flows, bizarre landscapes. We get to watch a corpse burn in India...for some reason...

Roughly similar to Samsara...the viewer participates in finding the meaning of all this. What is time? What is its purpose?

A bit too artsy for a film posing serious questions. Idiotic final scene where the filmmaker interviews his own mother about the meaning of time. She hasn't a clue. Me neither.

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