There are three basic things to avoid in war: getting killed, being convicted of war crimes and having a commanding officer who thinks you are useless. It was only natural that it would be tasked with the most dangerous area of operations in the Iraq of 2005-06: the "Triangle of Death". It is associated with honour, not atrocity. It was the division sent by Eisenhower to enforce civil rights legislation and ensure that nine African-American children could attend Little Rock Central High School. The rapists were from an infantry platoon in the US army's most elite division, the 101st Airborne, which provided "the Band of Brothers". The soldiers did it because they had the power to do it they didn't need a reason why – almost the invasion of Iraq in microcosm.
It was almost a jape – something to break the boredom of endless hours at a checkpoint. The most chilling aspect of the crime was the casual manner in which it was carried out. The centre and the pity of Jim Frederick's account is the murder of the Janabis, an Iraqi family, and the rape of their 14-year-old daughter by four US soldiers. It's about what Wilfred Owen called "the pity of war". Make no mistake by the time the end credits roll, this is not a happy movie.T his isn't a book for armchair war junkies. It’ll make you squirm once or twice, laugh once or twice, and even…dammit…think more than once. But I will say this – BLACK DEATH, while not as epically cool or over the top as Smith’s classic SEVERANCE, is still worth keeping an eye out for. Even though sometimes I still think I should…įrom what I can find on the world wide intraweb, right now I am a lucky lucky lucky lucky boy, as I can’t seem to find a theatrical or DVD release date for this sucker anywhere. I guess I should say this before I move on Sean, I still love your work – you rock, and I do not hold THE HITCHER remake against you. What can I say about the actors that’s anything new from what you expect from any of them already? Not much, I’d suppose, only to reassure you that every single one of them are in top form here – they must have really dug the material and identified with their characters, as they truly make you believe they’re on this huge noble mission. I really liked CREEP the more I watched it, got a charge out of TRIANGLE, but it was his sophomore effort SEVERANCE that just blew me away, and remains my favorite of his to this day, as well as one of the best British horror/comedies to come along in the last decade at least. Of course though, I’ve been looking forward to this one for awhile for one reason above all else, so I’m very grateful that The Big Bossman decided to send this flick to me to review – I’m a huge fan of director Christopher Smith, and anxiously await anything he has coming out even more than I look forward to my nightly glass of Scotch. But through all the conflicts and scares along the way to the evil village that has seemingly made a pact with the Big Red Horned Dude, there’s also a few other things I wasn’t counting on…things like more blood than I’d counted on for one, very dark humor for another, and one thing that surprised me more than anything else – little sparks of humanity in an extremely dark and violent time. Sure, it has many religious inflections, but it also spices things up with conflict, violence, some Spanish Inquisition (NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!) types of implements strapped all over a horse-drawn carriage, which is all cool, no doubt about that. So for me, BLACK DEATH falls somewhere in between.
I truly do think THE EXORCIST keeps getting funnier every single time I see it, but yet I’m one of the few I know who really loved END OF DAYS.
Not really sure why, but I just don’t dig on most of them. More times than not, I’ve noticed that many movies out there with heavy religious overtones have sent me into a glazed-eyed funk. So he drafts Osmund to be his guide, and they set off into the haunted forest to find this village, confront the eeeeevil, have whacky adventures along the way, and most importantly – kick arse for The Lord!!
#BLACK DEATH 2010 MOVIE ANALYSIS FREE#
Enter the Bishop’s envoy, who shows up telling stories of an isolated village somewhere out there that is free from The Plague, and they all think there’s an eeeeeeeevil deal with the Devil himself afoot here. He’s conflicted, and is thinking about breaking away and running off with a hot blonde…hey, no arguments here. Osmund (not Donnie OR Marie, sadly) is a young monk back in 1384 who is living through the Black Plague, but not having a very good time during that one. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, David Warner, Kimberly Nixon Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is tasked with learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
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