The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

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Audience Member Profound. The narrator was fantastic. After reading the critics review the question that arises is where on earth do you find these assholes. I couldn't have imagined a more shallow group of people in one place. The stench of NYC inhabits their writings. Now that American cities have become huuuge outhouses a purge seems entirely necessary. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Good idea, but very poorly executed. The story is incredible and comes through to an extent, but inappropriate music and images ruin the occasional haunting effect. Actual images and more documentary-style parts would've been much more potent. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Maybe there's something to be said about a person who can sit through a vapid recitation of supposedly real diary entries from a man who went into the woods to die of starvation accompanied by useless, uninteresting visuals and come away with nothing but a reinvigorated adoration for big, fat ham sandwiches. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Atmospheric and impressionistic. The mummy-to-be is thoughtful but vague, almost too vague. The secret of success lay in the drama. Yes, you read correctly: drama. Although, how the filmaker manages to extend the "action" as long as he did is a mystery in itself. I think the work is masterful in that it got me to go along for the ride and I was involved, for the most park. One thing that bothers me is the nagging suspicion that this "true" story is a fake after all. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member reflective, simple, and brutal. a fascinating, abusive interview with death. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member The thing that kept me interested while watching this film was imagining myself doing the same thing. I mean you think about Ghandi or Jesus or Moses or Buddha and their self-starvations, but actually going all the way through way it - to have a cinematic imagining of that is interesting enough. But the real kicker was the message of the film- Each one of us, billions of humans, all of us live and die. That's one thing we can be sure of. And in life, we all suffer. And we suffer to die. And we all hope for comfort! The fact that this happens to us is mind boggling, but it does to every one of us. The film explores that well. And the symbolism of the planes/cars/boats show what it really is, what all religions profess, and what physical reality supports as well: we're each on a journey and a passage. It makes you respect all life a lot more. Still, you can't really blame people for being egotistical assholes because that behavior helps us not to think about this mortality. But at the same time, there's nothing wrong with examining it. It really is what it is: we all live, suffer, and die. We pass on. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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