The story sounded fascinating and I was not disappointed at any point.I found this a very good film from beginning to end and would not hesitate to recommend it.
ESSENTIAL KILLING 2010 Jerzy Skolimowski **/*** An interesting if not particularly enjoyable film (and entertaining it is not). It has very little text and almost no dialogue (human talking is almost white noise; no more significant than dogs barking or birds chirruping). The story starts off somewhere in the middle east (non-specific). 3 American soldiers dressed as Arabs are hunting mines and snipers in a strange landscape, a flat desert plain wrought with eroded gullies. As they progress through one of them an Arab Muslim ahead of them takes a shoulder missile-firer from a dead insurgent and hides. However when they stumble across him he fires it and they are blown to smithereens. He is then pursued by helicopters, caught, tortured and transported to an equally arid snowscape in Central Europe. However his prison vehicle crashes and he escapes, but is pursued like a hunted animal. This film is all about survival and endurance and in fact, though the fugitive killer often kills, it is only ever a defensive reaction relating to his own survival. As he journeys on he has many mishaps: he is caught in an animal trap, he falls down a cliff and into a frozen river, but then so does his pursuer. He steals his pursuer’s clothes. He is forced to eat termites, berries, bark, raw stolen fish, he hallucinates. He is trapped under and logged tree, and injured in a fight. Is helped by a woman who is mute, but she then sets him on a beautifully mained grey horse. But his wounds bleed and the blood pours down the horses’ neck. We are left with the image of the horse grazing alone on frozen grass. Though the hero/anti-hero is a Muslim Arab, there are moments he resembles our idea of Jesus. At 83 minutes it is an economical film with a sparse but creative soundtrack.Read full review
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