![]() ![]() Roman coins and architecture, in particular, are loaded with large amounts of visual symbolic content.Īside from ancient sources, using popular or retro imagery is a good way to train one's investigative skills. Expert numismatists (people who study coins) can spend hours unpacking the meaning of a single Roman coin. ![]() One investigates a scene like a forensic specialist, but not using science so much as knowledge of the humanities: language, culture, art, religion, philosophy, and law. ![]() One can become efficient, like an art historian or archeologist, at extracting the story from a visual scene. Understanding symbols and why they are used is a part of historical inquiry. I like to look for symbols and I gain pleasure when I pick up on a reference to a past literary work or moment in history. Also, it's a compelling commentary on the desperate scenarios that fuel the global migrant crisis, if you're into that sort of thing.I have been fascinated with symbols and their meaning as long as I can remember. Add on Mica Levi's (UNDER THE SKIN, JACKIE, MARJORIE PRIME) minimalist score to the fracas and it is nothing short of a psychedelic experience. ![]() Their methodized acting translates impeccably well to the screen as, aside from the artifice of presentation, it's somewhere between Come and See and a "Kony 2012" documentary. They received acting lessons and military training each day until they were whittled down "Survivor"-style to the core cast of eight. Evidently they took about 20-30 Colombian kids to location and set up camp. Perhaps even more enticing than the gorgeous visuals, chaotic beauty of the mountainous jungle, and skin crawling body fascination from all the mud and fire is the method of casting development they started months before shooting. There's a whole lot of intended metaphorical substance behind this sensory experience to do with the self-socialization and with Latin American history in general, but I'll let you sift through that yourself since I'm still unpacking it as well. Ascertaining who with or why purposfully frustrates the viewer, so we are left to focus on the characters themselves and their actions. The elliptical method of storytelling is strong with this one, and we aren't really given much context for why there are child soldiers out in the jungle holding an American doctor as prisoner, but the overt references to "Lord of the Flies" and "Heart of Darkness" make it fairly apparent there's some sort of war going on. This year's equivalent to EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT is an auditory and visual hallucination of child soldiers somewhere in the Colombian jungle. ![]()
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