you have to love the eclecticism of netflix: last night, I watched the wind will carry us and the proposition. the latter is a western, set in the australian outback, directed by john hillcoat (and written by nick cave, weird!), which starts with a warning that aboriginal people may find some of the images offensive (also weird). hillcoat's next movie is the adaptation of the road by cormac mccarthy.
the wind will carry us is directed to perfection by abbas kiarostami of iran. his signature is long takes of cars driving on winding roads in the distance; he can make a jeep driving up the hill express a different emotion than a motorcycle driving down the hill later. in a better world he would adapt mccarthy's book and everyone would be bored by the coen's no country for old men.
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I remember the proposition, which i rented as a means to discover a judgment on Nick Cave. I didn't hate or love the film, though I watched it twice in effort. I found the device-y, jump-cut-y nine inch nails-ish riding scene (scenes?) especially annoying, and think i remember a scene in which one character sings Peggy Gordon while a woman is being raped--both evidence to the case of dislike, but I found the landscape and setting unique for a western.
FYI Nick Cave was supplied with the theme, setting and a pile of research. He wrote the script in three weeks.
you must have watched the making of too. I agree, the music (also by nick cave) was awful but I liked some of his dialogue
Samuel Stote: What's a misanthrope, Arthur?
Two Bob: Some bugger who fuckin' hates every other bugger.
Samuel Stote: Hey, I didn't ask you, you black bastard
Arthur Burns: He's right Samuel. A misanthrope is one who hates humanity.
Samuel Stote: Is that what we are, misanthropes?
and despite all the talk about the landscape I think it was the mix of ethnicities -- english, irish, indigenous australian -- that made the setting interesting.
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