It's not often a masterpiece rolls out in front of your eyes, it's not often the football world cup plays, and it's not often 50,000 people die and another 535,000 (or so) are spared... only to live through something worse. There is life, and nothing more.
'Life, and Nothing More...' serves as an objective examination of the 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake, it involves people who experienced the tragedy first hand and suffered the consequences. The story is surrounded by suffering, it is recognised that it's something to be acknowledged, but not something to dwell on. There is life, and nothing more.
They're (the film and life) about the journey rather than the destination; a journey over stunning vistas crumbling away at your feet. And they're about the questions, rather than the answers, just asking is enough to distract from the disruption. There is life, and nothing more.
The way this film adds to the previous - 'Where Is The Friends House' - is nothing short of astonishing. In my eyes this is the perfect sequel. Ideas from 'Friends House' are expanded on and the events of that film are given new context. We see the unprepared children from that film in the same vulnerable position as the adults that raised them to be so unready. That's just one example of many.
When launched so suddenly into a situation so tragic and unforeseeable, like these earthquakes, what can you do but live?. ....
'Life, and Nothing More...' serves as an objective examination of the 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake, it involves people who experienced the tragedy first hand and suffered the consequences. The story is surrounded by suffering, it is recognised that it's something to be acknowledged, but not something to dwell on. There is life, and nothing more.
They're (the film and life) about the journey rather than the destination; a journey over stunning vistas crumbling away at your feet. And they're about the questions, rather than the answers, just asking is enough to distract from the disruption. There is life, and nothing more.
The way this film adds to the previous - 'Where Is The Friends House' - is nothing short of astonishing. In my eyes this is the perfect sequel. Ideas from 'Friends House' are expanded on and the events of that film are given new context. We see the unprepared children from that film in the same vulnerable position as the adults that raised them to be so unready. That's just one example of many.
When launched so suddenly into a situation so tragic and unforeseeable, like these earthquakes, what can you do but live?. ....