Today I went to the cinema to see "Below Sea Level", the newest movie from Gianfranco Rosi. The screening was part of the viennese film festival Viennale. The were a coule of other flicks I wanted to see, like "Moon", "Antichrist" or "Fish Tank", but most of them were sold out within hours.
"Below Sea Level" drew my attention cause in the summarisation it said, that it told the story of a commune made up by some dropouts in the middle of the californian desert. Well, that's exactly what the film is all about. Rosi spent like 2 years in the commune and the result were the 115 minutes that flickered over the screen today. Within these almost 2 hours Rosi presents the fates of a few selected charakters.
For me, who has a very romanticising view on droping out of society, was it really easy to connect to some of the characters, mainly those, who chose this way of life. The life in the desert seemed to be hard, but also very rewarding in the sense of personal freedom. I could imagine very well to live in this comune too for a while. Must be a very interesting experience.
Fans of Thoreau, "Into The Wild" and Beatnick-Culture (Kerouac) should defenitely check this movie out!
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