Friday, March 5, 2010

Spoorloos


So i'm watching a remake of a Dutch film called Spoorloos (which translates to 'The Vanishing). I've wanted to see the original ever since i watched the remake for the first time a few years ago, but ive never gotten around to it. Apparently the remake is an insult to the original, so know i'm desperate to see the o.g.

I was just reading reviews and found this one;


This review is from: Vanishing, the (VHS Tape)
The Vanishing is a terrifyingly dark allegory of life and death and lost love. Raymond Lemorne (morne is the French word for gloomy, dismal) is death. Rex and Saskia are Everyman/woman caught in what is simply an artfully speeded up version of the life cycle. Think about that symbolic tunnel they pass through at the beginning. On the other side death awaits, inexplicable, ordinary and inevitable--just like Lemorne. And like Rex, we all deny the obvious and search for the lost loved one only to be eventually snatched away by Him ourselves. What is so unsettling to the viewer is the film's relentless subliminal message: the inescapable outcome of life and love is death and loss.

Getting it tomorrow.

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