Into Great Silence is a documentary filmed for a couple of years (the director asked permission to the Order of Carthusians and told him yes 20 years later) about life in the Swiss monastery of the Carthusian order, which is possibly the oldest (the western world) who still live in the cloistered monks.
The film is long, are almost 3 hours of silence, pure and simple. Only hear the sounds of a in which almost no noise. It shows the everyday life of the monks, cutting each other's hair, eating, praying, hiking up the mountain (there should be one day a year in which the luxury of talking and laughing, etc.).
When one sees this movie knows what is stated in the same way that if you drink a double shot of Stroh, vomit instantly. This movie is to love or hate. It's like watching a piece of life but without all the paraphernalia that surrounds us. It's like watching Big Brother with dignity, because those who come here do not speak, do not talk nonsense, and smile with happiness as he does not expect things in life, as if they were REALLY happy doing what they do (and what not do). That is exciting to see these monks. Your happiness is hypnotic. After seeing the documentary is as if you had done to reflect on the passage of time.
Do you remember those images to still camera where you see a landscape progress from day to night in seconds? For here the landscape is not progressing, but we who are going to 500x.
Look at the pictures below, a few seconds to think what they suggest (all together and separately) and then decide whether to see Into Great Silence or not.
The film is long, are almost 3 hours of silence, pure and simple. Only hear the sounds of a in which almost no noise. It shows the everyday life of the monks, cutting each other's hair, eating, praying, hiking up the mountain (there should be one day a year in which the luxury of talking and laughing, etc.).
When one sees this movie knows what is stated in the same way that if you drink a double shot of Stroh, vomit instantly. This movie is to love or hate. It's like watching a piece of life but without all the paraphernalia that surrounds us. It's like watching Big Brother with dignity, because those who come here do not speak, do not talk nonsense, and smile with happiness as he does not expect things in life, as if they were REALLY happy doing what they do (and what not do). That is exciting to see these monks. Your happiness is hypnotic. After seeing the documentary is as if you had done to reflect on the passage of time.
Do you remember those images to still camera where you see a landscape progress from day to night in seconds? For here the landscape is not progressing, but we who are going to 500x.
Look at the pictures below, a few seconds to think what they suggest (all together and separately) and then decide whether to see Into Great Silence or not.
Recommendation : use as reference The Quince Tree Sun (1992), by Victor Erice .
Rating: 9
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