Thirty years after the "flash" the earth is a brown wasteland. Hikers Eli is in the possession of the last King James Bible, and a "voice" has instructed him to take her to the west, where one awaits them. On the way he meets the standard despot who wants to have the Bible to establish a new dictatorship on the basis of their messages. But Eli is a brave fighter and has a sharp machete to hand.
The assessment of this film has, especially in Germany, again for civil war Conditions provided by the interpreter. The combat fundamentalism atheists sense when Christian motifs are brought so so obvious the game. Propaganda, they say, fundamentalist Zeitgeist. The latter may indeed have played a role, but rather as a reflection and a concession to a sensitized audience. Ultimately, it all seems too be much more of an aesthetic match with the motives and modes of post-apocalyptic. The Old Testament, that this genre and its predecessors has always been based is very concrete dug up. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Aesthetically Fallout is quoted as Mad Max, of course, on the wall hangs a poster of film A Boy and His Dog , one of the villains constantly whistling a Morricone-motif, Django, Keoma, Il Grande Silenzio and the Pale Rider seem like to turn the corner.
And Book of Eli allowed to ambivalence. Hikers Eli is the one who claims a "divine voice" to have been sent on a mission and thereby be protected. If the audience her so readily decreases, that is faith already, for a true verification of these claims, the film not only rumors of the irrational. His opponents Elis skill and sheer invulnerability is eerie, the viewer, too, but all this can just as well with luck, do have physical control and training. Eli takes himself unshakable faith, acts quite like a simpleton and a pure fool who defined his clear, adopted Mosaic task. "I'm not crazy," he says. But you have to really believe him just because he happens to be the hero of the story? The movie poster A Boy at His Dog is quite early a small note on the ambiguity of some apocalyptic narratives. When Eli is shot against his own expectations, will rise from the dust and then breaks down, reflect on Denzel Washington's face huge doubts about the life lesson Bible to have been delivered. "Ends it really here? "asks this view. Faith is the one who finally brings him to continue walking. Fortunately for him, he is by the young Solara picked up in the desert and taken to its destination. And finally there shows that these people certainly are not Christian Spinner, but culture guardians who regard the Bible rather than scientific interest with reverential fervor. The printed and bound last / first copy arrives at the end on a shelf next to Torah and the Koran, a thousand more books by and under it. An admittedly pretty thick book, among many others. And in Eli's grave stone is emblazoned in the end not even a cross. The eventual cranking the printing press awakens Associations with Gutenberg, Luther, Reformation and powerful breaks. It is also remarkable that there is no need for a cracking showdown, and the bad guy simply because comes in, that he has exhausted his own resources mania.
Not bad, the movie. Proves that the genre of honor, but can not keep up with the crazy, ingenious's 1982-kinetics of Road Warrior that one today can even fold down the jaw.
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