@deanduncan63Saw #AllIsLost. Elemental setting, & a plot devoted exclusively to process. Just nouns & verbs, but such evocation …
… in the wake of that simplicity! Salutary, inspiring.
#AllIsLost slots in as part of a great, now underserved tradition: … Captain’s Courageous. Conrad’s “Youth.” The Sea Wolf.
… Hemingway, Huston, Mowat, Craighead George, Paulsen, etc. In our comfortable affluence we forget the irreducible realities …
… These narratives serve as important correctives, even antidotes. For example: http://bit.ly/1SufLcO
#AllIsLost. That last list was a mere tip, & there’s actually a whole iceberg. Check this out: http://on.natgeo.com/1paVXdP
#AllIsLost. Catastrophe, vulnerability, resolve & resourcefulness, exhaustion, extremity & deliverance. (Cf. Gravity!) …
… Intended or not, this superb old guy makes it tough not to read the film as a (superb) parable about raging against the dying of the light.
#AllIsLost. Hints & potshots? W’ regard to storage bins & big ships, maybe it’s not that global capitalists don’t care …
… but that global capitalism can’t control, doesn’t even understand the consequences of its actions & mindsets.