Monday 26 August 2013

The Last Days [Los últimos días]


(Frightfest Day 4)
A superb adventure through the buildings and tunnels of Barcelona where the population have been forced to live due to a rampant viral agoraphobia. Invokes both Romero and Carpenter at their best and there's a fight with a bear. Brilliant.

3 comments:

  1. Fantastic tale of friendship born out of disaster in a post apocalyptic world. Will clearly suffer from being judged on the last 5 minutes, which was either a cynicism eroding, uplifting tribute to the potential of humanity or a horrendous preachy parable about the fear of fatherhood. Or both?

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  2. Definitely flirts with mawkishness and heavy handed metaphor but still brilliant.

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  3. Sentimental post-apocalyptic road movie riddled with cliche and oozing cheese. Climaxes with a man crossing the fucking road to inevitably reunite, against the odds, with his wife and newborn son. Lynch does the whole fear of fatherhood thing so much better with Eraserhead.

    Features a proper say-it-loud FFS moment at the end when a pack of nu-breed children walk out into the open, complete with hope in their eyes and CGI butterflies. Someone get me a bucket. Complete tosh.

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