This is a solidly divisive film, from what I’ve read, and I was thoroughly enthralled by every minute of it. (And for that reason, I’m relieved that Adam’s response mirrors my own.) But I still can’t explain it thoroughly, or describe its plot other than in a few sentences: in 1955, a group of men outfitted in identical fedoras (imagine the Bible salesmen from the Maysles’ Salesman) are recruited to facilitate the evacuation of Northfork, Montana, in anticipation of a dam that will flood the entire town. Some leave without haste, others prepare for the flood as a collective of Noahs—one even equips his house to float once the water rushes mightily forth. This is a film that is variably comedic, visionary, and compositionally symmetrical (as in how so much of Kubrick may be described as such), but it remains a brazenly original and ruminative film for which most any interpretation is inadequate.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Cable TV
18 Jan 2007 2:46 PM | Submit Comment
