Once upon a time in the Forsaken Land

Well…there is a lot of good movies which their stories have created in my mind – in different ways -  a point of view about the society, their shadows and brightness, their ways to lie and to survive. I’d love to comment every one, but at this moment I prefer focus on one movie that I saw some time ago. It’s titled: The Forsaken Land, directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara.

I discover this movie when the Valdivia Film Festival announced the screening of Jayasundara’s filmography, but I couldn’t see (and going to) in that moment (2011), so I had to download.

This movie captivated me since the pre-introduction. His photographic quality applied to personify the nature and turn the characters into their sorrows and exaltations, all envolved by a manner of the director to confront the pass of time with the mythologic atmosphere inserted into the souls of the charcters.

The Forsaken Land, 2005

On reflection, I’m going to talk about another movie that I remembered it is very similar to the previous one in some way: Once Upon a Time In Anatolia. The director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, gives the same significance to the expressive force of the nature, like a witness of the situations relating to the human acts and feelings, like the use of wind, breeze sometimes, and wind gust in other moment.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, 2011

These examples reflected my predilection to see how the clime and the landscapes hold hands with the internal climate of the characters hearts.