Letters from a Dead Man

This movie is basically about the faintest little flicker of optimism in a world that has been otherwise ruined by people. For most of its running time, you see something that looks less like a post-apocalypse, and more like an apocalypse that hasn't quite finished up. It isn't until the very end that you might start to think "Well..... Maybe the human race isn't completely lost."

Will assault you with unrelenting bleakness and crush your spirit into pixie dust. But hey, when you're going to watch a post-apocalyptic movie made in Russia, that seems to be a reasonable expectation. The yellow-only color scheme is effective but a bit tiring. Still, that just adds to the experience. The children's ward scene is... it's... oh god. This movie will leave you sad, empty, defeated. May I have a hug please?

an extremely heavy and depressing rendition of post-nuclear life. the text is filled with religiosity, luddism and general bleakness but beneath the neverending misery is a tiny glimmer of hope. i really don't know how deep and meaningful one should consider this, but it is undoubtedly filled with endless imagery that is at once strange, powerful, and beautiful, often helped along by typical soviet bluntness. reminded me in a lot of ways of THE ELEMENT OF CRIME.

Brilliant and humanistic comment on mankinds most insane invention, that is the atomic bomb of course. Not really a flaw, but it is perhaps a bit too pessimistic even for my taste.

High-quality images but Lopushansky seems an unsubtle director, especially when compared with his mentor. Of the three SF movies I've seen by this director, I tend to think the most recent, UGLY SWANS, is the best, even though it is also the most conventional and therefore the least highly-regarded: but the 2006 work is the least flawed, I suspect, because it is not an original story, based instead on a book whose ideas are superior in interestingness to those of which this filmmaker is capable.

There where really moving moments in this picture. And that's what I usually expect from a film, that it could move my feelings. I was surprised how deeply religious this move was - I mean in year 86 you could still get some troubles when visiting church on Christmas.

Beautiful and aloof. A movie about humanity was supposed to make me feel something.

A cautionary tale about progress and de destruction of the planet. For me was more a visual experience than a story

Are most Soviet apocalyptic sci-fi movies the same, but at varying levels of comprehensibility and clarity?

Aesthetically successful, but it didn't get under my skin.

It's a bleak film that points towards an unknown future for humanity, if it can even call itself that. In a ravaged world, a Nobel Prize winner is no different than anyone else. Some will accept the end of humanity in the same way as they accept their own demise. Still, it presents some hope at the end, with the youth venturing out into the unknown. How could the unknown be any worse than this?

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teknoloji dunyanin sonunu getirmis. peki ama neden. yanlislikla bir dugmeye basmak mi? bu acidan dayanagi zayif. onun disinda dis ses ve didaktik uslubu ile incelikten uzak. vicdanlara cekilmis bir film

Wow, this one hits hard. Very far from the first plea for sanity in the face of possible nuclear apocalypse, but maybe one of the more effective ones, thanks to its unapologetic, extremely Soviet harrowing bleakness, with just the slightest touch of optimism toward the end. The sound design and yellow color scheme add to it greatly. None of us have any idea what a post-apocalyptic world would look or feel like but I'd imagine not many movies have guessed better than this one. Depressing.