This film is the best movie nominated for an Oscar this year, and I have seen them all now. There is more to this short 17 minute piece than there usually are to most two hours movies. We get the sense of where this old man's life is headed, how his relationships and his family has formed, his attachment to the land.
The film has one of the oddest combinations of imagery as it combines some of the most disturbing: a woman dead in bed, a man burying himself alive, his daughter (along with his son in law and grandkid) seeing him bury himself alive--mixed with some of the most romantic images: a couple dying together, preserving the life on the farm avoiding an old person's home. The movie is very human, dying with dignity. The acting and directing and scenery are also amazing.
The film has one of the oddest combinations of imagery as it combines some of the most disturbing: a woman dead in bed, a man burying himself alive, his daughter (along with his son in law and grandkid) seeing him bury himself alive--mixed with some of the most romantic images: a couple dying together, preserving the life on the farm avoiding an old person's home. The movie is very human, dying with dignity. The acting and directing and scenery are also amazing.