Last and First Men

Wow. What an astonishing art film--complimentary to 2001, Tree of Life, and Cloud Atlas in its epic meditation of human life. Jóhann Jóhannsson wonderfully orchestrates the script, voice-over, editing, photography, and music into an elegiac trance where you reflect on humankind's fate. The black-and-white cinematography deserves kudos, with gorgeous tracking shots, inspired framing, and great locales. I'm only saddened that due to his passing, we can't see more of Jóhannsson as a director.

I saved this one for my 1000th review, a big milestone in my book. The movie was perfect on paper. Unfortunately the story goes into such odd details that I find hard to relate to the whole lore and spirit of a futuristic film. The cinematography and setting had much potential, but it feels all too present. Music and ambient is cosmic, albeit a bit melancholic, but isn't our existence exactly that in this cosmos? Tilda's narration is perfect and I loved every bit - save for some story-nonsense.

Not quite the architectural La Jetée-esque low-key yet grandiose sci-fi essay film it thinks it is, but a both fascinating and flawed take on humanity's evidently doomed fate and troubled, lonely relationship with the cosmos. It works way better as an installation art than a feature -- that's why it should have the half of its running time, maybe -- and it made me desperately interested in reading the book.

It's not a movie in a traditional sense, more like some artsy performance, so no shit there's almost no plot and it feels tiresome. But the visuals are great, the sound is deep and haunting and the ideas are monumental. Overall, a fine "movie", kept me on the edge of boredom, but some moments stuck with me for a couple of days, and, most importantly, it's not pretentious or tacky, on the contrary, feels complete and finished, effective in what it is

I wanted so badly to love this but it honestly felt like the first 5 minutes of a regular sci-fi movie stretched out 70. Tilda narrates a story that would be interesting if the film wasn't so boring. Slow pan/zoom on images/architecture that are occasionally interesting but too similar--or identical in some cases--to remain interesting; lingers too long on them. Does this repeatedly. Seriously, the visuals here are NOT interesting enough to warrant this. Soundtrack is minimalist and cool tho.

There is almost no story. Just black & white imagery of abandoned monuments while Tilda Swinton narrates about human life in 2 billion years. The exposition is shallow and plain. There is nothing new or engaging. And what is here is poorly written. It tries to sound smart but comes off pretentious, like "We earnestly desire to communicate..." rather than "We want to communicate..." It's like the director wanted to show off cool monuments while the writer wanted to show off his cool scifi ideas.

Nice installation piece, bit of a yawner as a feature film. But I do love Johann’s music (everybody needs to hear IBM 1401 A User’s Manual while on mushrooms)

Boring

Bu 1 film değil. Belgesel. Taşlar, kayalar gösteren bol tekno müzik belgeseli.

Jóhann Jóhannsson is sorely missed for glorious scores and his potential as a filmmaker. This is an experimental film, to be sure, but it demonstrates weighty and introspective themes.

"bizler eski halimizin enkazlarıyız."

Let a musician film an unfilmable book and this is what you get: essentially an art installation of slow black and white images set to drones while Tilda Swinton reads exposition. Now, that's not a bad thing. It just feels a bit half-baked, like it could have been improved by doing either more or less with it.

Olaf Stapledon'ın, "Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future" hikayesi öylesine güçlü ki José Enrique Maciáń'ın metin yazarlığı ve Tilda Swinton'ın anlatımıyla birlikte etkileyici, deneysel bir kurmacaya dönüşmekte hiç zorluk çekmemiş.