Last Days (2005)
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Michael Pitt
AMBIGUOUS, ISOLATION, ALIENATION, DISENCHANTMENT
A fictionlised account of Kurt Cobain's last days. Michael Pitt playing Blake a character based on Cobain. With a near total lack of dialogue except for the brief mutterings here and there this beautifully shot piece is what's so powerful and important to this film. The viewer is very much the second thought and priority in this sad, isolated account of a man whos behaviour through out is mostly walking around, muttering. The viewer sits back observing his alienated journey carefully constructed through the key complex relationship between the scenery and noises Gus Van Sant created. The scenery could be seen as reflecting Blake's own deteriation. I watched this film very early in the morning alone and felt it may have been more powerful doing so because of Blake's own isolated state and in a way how you as the viewer watching alone build up your own intimate connection with the character. I feel the emotion I got from the film may have been effected if I had watched it any other way.
(There is a really interesting analysis of the film on: http://www.cinematicreflections.com/lastdays.html by Derek Smith 7/22/05)
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