On Escapism
Detective stories appeal to the dream of resolution in which lurks the dreams of justice and salvation.
Detective stories appeal to the dream of resolution in which lurks the dreams of justice and salvation.
Detective stories appeal to the dream of resolution in which lurks the dreams of justice and salvation.
Detective stories appeal to the dream of resolution in which lurks the dreams of justice and salvation.
by Nicholas Johnson
Ben Rivers’ Two Years at Sea is a portrait of Jake, a man who lives a lone subsistence lifestyle in the wilds of Scotland. Rivers’ film is a silent plotless meditation on life at a different pace and begs of the cinema goer a different kind of attention. A piece of contemporary romanticism, filmed on old equipment, removed from society, almost anthropological in its depiction of a human who moves at the speed of nature.
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by Nicholas Johnson
Ben Rivers’ Two Years at Sea is a portrait of Jake, a man who lives a lone subsistence lifestyle in the wilds of Scotland. Rivers’ film is a silent plotless meditation on life at a different pace and begs of the cinema goer a different kind of attention. A piece of contemporary romanticism, filmed on old equipment, removed from society, almost anthropological in its depiction of a human who moves at the speed of nature.