A Matter of Life and Death (1946) PART 4
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- ★★★★★ (All Movie Guide):
Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has landed on Earth utterly unharmed...which wasn't supposed to happen according to the rules of Heaven. A celestial court argues over whether or not to claim Carter's life or to let him survive to wed his American sweetheart (Kim Hunter). During an operation, in which Carter hovers between life and death, he dreams that his spirit is on trial, with God (Abraham Sofaer) as judge and Carter's recently deceased best friend (Roger Livesey) as defense counsel. The film tries to have it both ways by suggesting that the heavenly scenes are all a product of Carter's imagination, but the audience knows better. Among the curious but effective artistic choices in A Matter of Life and Death was the decision to film the earthbound scenes in Technicolor and the Heaven sequences in black-and-white. The film was a product of the adventuresome team known as "The Archers": Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
A Masterpiece .
Perhaps this movie is an allegory to give a tribute to the all pilots were died during the battle of england, they should have found a better world beyond.
And it's charming for one of them to have a second chance.
Battle of Britain actually old chap.
So wonderfully 'British'!
This is a remarkable film and very much what a NDE (near death experience) is like for some with familiar and unfamiliar elements and a sense of being alone in a desolate landscape - which presumably is a phenomenon caused by unconscious content coming to light as the mind or soul or whatever becomes detached from the body.
They fall in love THAT quickly? One radio conversation and one brief meeting? We may have a world record for fastest romance! LOL.
It must of struck a cord with movie watchers at that time that six years of war was coming to a end and peace was at hand and the fighting men would be coming home and some would not .
@jhjenn I think it's to give the impression to David Niven he was speaking to god Pan.
Thanks for putting up here. Really impresses.
What with shepard boy not having any pants???
Mosquito at 3:28. KICK-ARSE!!!
Quelle belle musique que la mer de Claude Debussy.
Saunton sands