Till Human Voices Wake Us
by Michael Petroni
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Actor: Frank Gallacher, Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Lindley Joyner, Peter CurtinDirector: Michael Petroni
Writer: Michael Petroni
Producer: Andrew Deane
Producer: Beau Flynn
Producer: David Redman
Producer: Dean Murphy
Producer: Gareth Wiley
Producer: Justin Pearce
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Till Human Voices Wake Us
Movie Review: Let us go then, you and I...
Summary: 5 Stars
A hauntingly beautiful film about human alienation and how the mind deals with guilt. Yet another true masterpiece of Australian cinema.
There is so much imagery in the movie that it is difficult to know where to start in describing it, but the brilliantly filmed uses of water are the centerpiece. When Guy Pearce's character is finally able to lay Silvy's ghost to rest, he does so in symbolic fashion, sending her out on a boat to the Otherworld, just as the Nordic warrior dead were sent out on burning boats to Valhalla. His peace of mind comes in her return to the Earth Mother.
There is a magic about the relationship between the young Sam and Silvy that is captured in a breathtakingly beautiful fashion in this masterpiece of direction.
The title is taken from the last line of T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which ends, "Till human voices wake us, and we drown." There has been a great deal of discussion of what Eliot meant by the poem as a whole and by the enigmatic last line, in particular. My own interpretation, with which I ended the Postscript of my 2009 novel One Star Awake, is that once we stop embracing the Sacred Feminine, the Truth that sustains us is lost... and we `drown' in the illusion of fear, despair and alienation.
Sam's bitter-sweet feelings of loss and desolation are only resolved when he re-dedicates Silvy's soul and memory to the Great Mother, the Universal Consciousness, as symbolized by the water.
Exquisite.
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