Article theme: Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
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| *Record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. I bet you're wondering how I ended up in this predicament... |
The idea that silent movies are obsolete or can only be revived sporadically as a gimmick (remember The Artist?) can be thrown out after watching The Red Turtle, a 2016 animated gem without a line of intelligible dialogue. Wouldn't a talkie feel the need to expand on the protagonist's backstory and similar nonsense? But do dreams do that? No. Our protagonist is everyman. So are we all.
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| Womb symbolism or an actual cave? You decide! |
Everyman washes up on a deserted island anywhere or nowhere. He sets out to build a raft in hopes of escape, but some unseen force keeps smashing each progressively larger iteration, driving him back to shore. I won't spoil anything that happens, but it's not a film of plot. Take in the moments, the textures, the quiet, contemplative days, the haunting soundtrack, the emotional journey from desperation to anger to despair to hope to you'll-see-what.
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| Even on a bog-standard DVD, the textures are transportive. |
In the same spirit as our hero, I won't say much, and it's no demerit to this monument to beauty that I don't have much to say.
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| Watch The Red Turtle. |
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