England d/ Ben Wheatly
Grim, grubby story(?) of five men separated from some battle in rural England in the 1600's. We are kept in the dark throughout as to what's going on, who these people are, what they are searching for, why they want to murder each other, what the hell this filmmaker is trying to get across.
They kill each other until there is only one left...but even when dead they come back to bellow and scream and dig into the filth yet again, eat magic mushrooms, have psychedelic visions and suffer for the full hour and a half. Three of them appear at the end, standing, watching.
I ended up concluding that all this was a fever dream by one or perhaps more than one of them which gave it a similar scenario to Incident at Owl Creek Bridge.
This movie wasn't bad...it was well done...but it made you feel bad...scuzzy, filthy, subject to random violence...an unpleasant experience. Does that have artistic value? Is that a statement of some kind?
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