Monday, 21 September 2015

18 August 2015. Hard to be a God


Attending this extraordinary film is rather like entering an altered state for three hours. To describe it makes it sound like an ordeal; yet it isn’t. Shot entirely in black and grey, the film takes us to a planet that is like earth but stuck in the dark ages. People wallow in shit and misery and are subject to the whims of less than benign leaders. One scene that will forever stick was a group of people advancing with nooses round their necks and carrying the large frame from which they will hang.


I just found myself sitting and gawping and making the perhaps obvious conclusion that this could well be life on parts of this planet - today.

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