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Die Grosse Stille is the only movie ever shot in the Grande Chartreuse monastery - no visitors being allowed there, not even
monks
families.
I may just be a philistine, but this examination of the lives of European
monks
ultimately struck me as pointless.
The film simply follows the
monks
through their daily routines, without any back story on the individual
monks
or narration to give viewers any context.
But there's even more fun in that flick: Nazi
monks
on 60 year old steroids, which make them invulnerable to bullets... Gimme a break!
Along with these main characters you have some ancient mystics,
monks
and a little bit of romance for Eagle.
O' Keefe, James Bell, Margo, Brooks, and the entire cast give credible turns and enforce our ability to accept what is going on.Some scenes are quite memorable: the young girl walking back home from the store is a classic scene of terror, the cemetery scene, and the procession of the
monks
allowed Tournier to work his magic with the lens.
If you want to see stunning scenery, a languid but atmospheric pace, and beautiful images such as the sun rising over the silhouettes of Buddhist monks, then enjoy.
There is praise for murder, drunken monks, and tourist attractions taken as pornographic.
This film has everything: murdering mad monks, evil clocks, crucifix murders, car chases, corpse-bothering, maximilian schell and rachel leigh cook as satan!
Franco also has some interesting things to say in the commentary on the Severin Films version, relating the dead
monks
in the film to his view of the Spanish Catholic church -- an insightful view, in fact, reflecting popular attitudes in Spanish Catholicism that define
monks
and priests as theoretically saintly figures that are also motivated by the needs and failings that drive ordinary men.
OK, to the degree that the film provoked me to think and question and puzzle about my frustration and the silent life of these monks, it succeeded.
When I first saw this movie at the video store, I thought, wow cool bunch of
monks
kill vampires.
Evil
monks
search New York City in the late 1980's for virgin sacrifices.
I'm still not sure what these
monks
do for their community.
but the most boring, and unenjoyable parts are dealing with two
monks
who are searching for God on Mars.
Three close ups of faces were repeated 4 times, the rope of the main bell was activated many times, a dark screen with flickering candles was seen too often, the shaving of
monks
heads is shot at length, including several minutes showing the barber (not shaved) looking flabbergasted !
A couple of dozen
monks
live there.
So he and Jody break into the old mausoleum and find out that it's actually some kind of factory where people are killer by a flying metal ball, crushed down to a height of about 3'2", dressed up like little
monks
and packaged up into round metal garbage cans and shipped off for use as slave labour in some other dimension.
The almost three hour running time seem to slip by totally unnoticed as we were immersed in the lives of the Carthusian
monks.
Okay, so we've got Roberta Findlay ("Tenement: Game of Survival", "Snuff") directing a cheesy 80's horror movie revolving on a brotherhood of devilish
monks
sacrificing young women to Satan himself and drinking their blood in order to remain immortal.
The film opens in the year thirteen-hundred-forty something with a bunch of
monks
turning to Satanism because they're angry with God for allowing the Black Plague to kill millions of people.
This was obviously a brilliant career move because the story suddenly jumps forward in time 600 years and all the
monks
contained their same age and virility.
The cast seems to be assembled from actual
monks
& country peasants but the naturalistic approach produces a result that looks entirely unnatural, with all the characters looking desperate to get their designated line into the dialogue.
The life of these
monks
isn't sensational.
This almost silent three hour documentary tracks the daily lives of Carthusian
monks
living at the Chartreuse Monastery in the French Alps, as they live in a way that seems to be in such contrast with the modern world.
Remarkably, given that European filmmakers tend to be among the most secular people in the world, the movie is also surprisingly respectful of the choices made by the
monks
in living in this particular way.
In Burma, the power of educated Buddhist
monks
– people who are unarmed and peace loving by their very nature – has risen up against the military regime.
That
monks
are leading the protests is no great surprise to those who have taken a long-term interest in the situation in Burma.
An overwhelming number of Burma’s Buddhist
monks
have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments’ efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks’ self-restraint to increase the pressure on other believers.
Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.
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