The Silent City: An Introspectively Surreal Vision of War
The Silent City is an astonishing Oscar-nominated short film by Ruairi Robinson, which brilliantly combines computer graphics with live footage. The film is a concisely introspective surreal story about wartime, which shows the ordeal of three soldiers who are on the outskirts of a war torn city. While patrolling an area in a secluded sector of a now silent city, a bomb is accidentally set off and they have to wait for help. One reviewer claims that The Silent City rivals anything seen about wartime since Coppola’s Apocalypse Now or Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. The film provides a powerful statement about our troops who are now facing death in foreign lands.
The Silent City: An Introspectively Surreal Vision of War
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August 16, 2009 at 2:44 am
Overall unremarkable. Aside from the modern computer generated graphics, the story line is well below 90% of the work done on the Twilight Zone in the 1960′s.
August 16, 2009 at 3:03 am
Hi Jerry,
There isn’t supposed to be a story line! The film was never intended to be any kind of “Hollywood” drama, but rather a visual piece that pulls the viewer into the horrible, viscerating experiences of modern-day wars.
August 16, 2009 at 7:55 am
The reviewer who put this film in the same category as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket had to be joking, right?