Friday, January 9, 2009

Heartbeat Detector



I watched the film Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine) by Nicholaas Klotz over the Christmas and I cant get the final speech by the character Arie Neuman out of my head, about the growing distance between human relationships and the language we use as it becomes specialised and technical. I wont go into details on what he says or what the film is about the scene is basically the culmination of a great movie that sees a young self assured psychologist who works in the human resources department of a petrochemical corporation unravel as he is asked to investigate the state of mind of a senior executive in the company.

This was one of those movie experiences where I had absolutely no idea what the story was about before I watched. It happened with Pan's Labarynth which is probably one of the greatest movies of the last 10 years in my opinion. It's so nice to see a movie without the many preconceptions that you have from all the peripheral media that surround them. So dont watch the trailer! Just see it.

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