Until the End of the World
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Actor: Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, Enzo Turrin, Pietro Falcone, Solveig DommartinDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Movie Reviews of Until the End of the World
Movie Review: The Obsessive Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
At its core, this is a film about the sometimes-destructive nature of obsession - the central character's obsession with the object of her desire, her former lover's obsession with quantifying their relationship, the obsession of bounty hunters with their quarry, the obsession of a son's desperate hope for his father's approval and that father's obsession with cutting-edge science taking precedence over any interpersonal considerations - with the exception of his obsessive love for his wife. This film is an epic, dream-like study of the human cost of all-consuming passion.
It's also a lot of fun. Wim Wenders was smart enough to place the timeline of events in this film no more than ten years on from shooting, thus taking advantage of newly-emergent technology showcased in ingenious ways as well as avoiding the dated look that plagues many science fiction films a decade or two after their release.
The soundtrack is amazing. I have personally worn-out or loaned-out seven separate cds and cassettes. It has been the soundtrack of my life for the better part of 15 years.
As a final word I would like to add that this film resembles a lucid dream state, one of those dreams you awaken from and attempt to describe ("...Well, then I was in Australia, and there were these guys chasing me so I got in a plane and then I was in a laboratory, except it was in a cave...")
This film begins with a dream and it ends with several recovering dream addicts adrift on a planet which appears to be recovering from a nightmare, a nightmare they seemed to have missed entirely in the all-encompassing pursuit of their heart's desires.
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