Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch:
Dead Man (USA, 1995)
121 min. - English - Finnish subtitles
K-16
Jim Jarmusch€s Dead Man is a story about a young man€s physical and mental journey into unusual places. Played by Johnny Depp , William Blake travels into the wild West to become an accountant sometime in the mid-19th-century. The job interview and the following night with a prostitute do not go smoothly: Blake becomes a wanted outlaw. Lost and severely wounded, the protagonists meets a strange outcast native American called €Nobody€, who believes Blake is the dead English poet of the same name. The native American guide€s view of life is boiled down to a sentence much repeated in the film: €Stupid fucking white man€. The same character gets to repeat his one-liner also in Jarmusch€s subsequent film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. The comical and violent circumstances shape Blake into a man whose physical existence begins to drift further and further away.
Dead Man is a film that would not be approved by the conservative parties€ platform: it€s a postmodern, psychedelic western. Iggy Pop himself makes a quick appearance in the cast and the music is provided by Neil Young. Mainly improvised tunes from an electric guitar fit the film like a bullet to the head of a greedy bounty hunter. Seeing Dead Man on a big screen is a must have experience for all film fanatics.
Sun 17th Nov at 2:15pm Tapio 2