As the "Thin Red Line", by Terrence Malik evokes in film, a deep reflection about life, death and war, so does "Unquiet Graves", offer a high quality radio reflection of the same caliber. Helen and Marjorie hit a little felt nerve by our citizens at home in the U.S, when exploring what wars do to a people, on home turf. No one can escape the effects of war today. A sobering thought.
In an intimately gentle voice, the listener, is directed to join a tour with an Englishman, who relives the horror of gas clouds in WW I, learn of survival techniques (such as how to use your bodily functions in a specific formulation), and how the Northern Europeans honor one another in memorials.
Honoring the dead, and clutching to the neighbor; these people were kin, now. They all lived to tell the tale. There is a depth here. You're kin to Terence Malik, I think. Great story. Very evocative.
I thoroughly enjoyed the production value: writing into tape, use of an English tour guide, the sounds of a radio broadcast, woven into the tape, with various interviews with the local peoples in Flanders. Nice use of echos for past recall.
And a fitting visual, the use of the poppy flower, to open and close the piece.
Review of Unquiet Graves
Barbara AnnKaarina Turning-McCord
Posted on August 06, 2006 at 10:05 PM
As the "Thin Red Line", by Terrence Malik evokes in film, a deep reflection about life, death and war, so does "Unquiet Graves", offer a high quality radio reflection of the same caliber. Helen and Marjorie hit a little felt nerve by our citizens at home in the U.S, when exploring what wars do to a people, on home turf. No one can escape the effects of war today. A sobering thought.
In an intimately gentle voice, the listener, is directed to join a tour with an Englishman, who relives the horror of gas clouds in WW I, learn of survival techniques (such as how to use your bodily functions in a specific formulation), and how the Northern Europeans honor one another in memorials.
Honoring the dead, and clutching to the neighbor; these people were kin, now. They all lived to tell the tale. There is a depth here. You're kin to Terence Malik, I think. Great story. Very evocative.
I thoroughly enjoyed the production value: writing into tape, use of an English tour guide, the sounds of a radio broadcast, woven into the tape, with various interviews with the local peoples in Flanders. Nice use of echos for past recall.
And a fitting visual, the use of the poppy flower, to open and close the piece.