![]() ![]() The first incident, Jack picks up a women who has a broken down car on the side of the road (Uma Thurman), he kills her with the broken jack from her car and takes her to an industrial freezer unit that he has purchased to store bodies in. The narrative indicates that Verge and Jack are on a journey and that Jack will recount five incidents in his life that has lead him to the point of meeting Verge and their ongoing journey. Jack (Matt Dillon) and Verge (Bruno Ganz) open the film as voice overs, talking, images of Glenn Gould playing the piano. This film was released in the UK in December 2018, so if you haven’t watched it yet and you don’t want spoilers, maybe come back to this article when you have watched it as I will be giving a break down of the film and drawing out the themes which can be seen within. Lucky for me they are all themes that I am really interested in, which made this such a superb visual experience. It doesn’t spoon feed the audience to reach a conclusion as it relies on them having a certain amount on knowledge. Some have said that it is a totally self indulgent piece of work, but I think that this could be that either the person watching it had no in depth knowledge of the “ Divine Comedy” or they didn’t have the information to bring the all the themes together, as this film is not easy watching if you don’t know about the subjects used. ![]() ![]() There are some films which incorporate a theme so seamlessly that they leave you astounded. ![]()
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