This one surprisingly decided to come on tv and I immediately became fixated on the screen knowing all the hype this gets. Then the justification with all its craziness started flowing in, first with the dinner scene and the guy who brilliantly plays Eli which was all really ominous and gloomy. Then out of no where comes the explosion scene (don’t ask me how they shot that) which left me regretting ever watching such an epic scene in an unsuitable room on an unsuitable tv, and from there on out the film looked pretty promising. The church scenes were also really great not to mention hilarious, a friend beside me asked me if I they ever hit me in church and it was all just one frivolous moment.
Then came the ending which initiated one of the biggest flat-line experiences I’ve come across in cinema and left me wondering what was the point of it all. I respect this film for all it is but the room for improvement it has could shelter a hundred homeless families. The music here is also overused like in one scene where someone is walking all alone and you hear his footsteps on gravel which to me could’ve evoked some sort of quiet peaceful calmness of being alone in the wilderness… I’m gonna watch some Bresson now.