![]() ![]() As he wanders, Russo starts rotating the camera vertically as well as horizontally to further disorientate us as Elder gets lost. Overwhelmed by the machinery, Elder ventures out into the abyss on his own to take a break. Everywhere else is a dark indistinguishable abyss. The only light comes from the head torches and flash lights the miners carry. With it, he’s losing his personality to the collective workforce, much like the machinery montages you might have seen in early Soviet film. It’s as if Elder’s becoming part of the machine. Firstly, the noise of the machines is so overbearing that the director dissolves a shot of Elder’s face into a montage of close ups of machinery. In the first day or two underground, director Kiro Russo immerses us in the harsh, claustrophobic underground tunnels of the mining complex. It’s not an environment he’s accustomed to. For the foreseeable future, it looks like he’ll be spending his days under the same ground his father is buried in. However, after seeing him struggling to get by in the opening, it doesn’t look like he has anything to escape to. Down inside the earth, he tells his new colleagues that the job is only temporary and he will be moving on. No one asks him whether he wants to work in the mines. He’s been ordered home to live with his lone grandmother and assume his dead father’s job in the mines. The group starts preparing his burial as Elder is recalled from the city. The search party finds what they’re looking for in the dead body of Elder’s dad, slumped on the ground behind a shrub. Perhaps Dark Skull isn’t following a linear narrative. The juxtaposition between the noisy built up urban environment in which Elder resides, and the silent, empty rural environment is noticeable. The opening establishes Elder’s depraved existence in the shadows of an anonymous Bolivian city.įrom there, Dark Skull cuts to a nighttime search party of men and women lighting up the hills and canyons of rural Bolivia with flashlights. Next he’s in a hectic night club, before he’s being chased along the street by a group of men. #Vimeo full movies crack#He looks like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, lurking in the shadows whilst he fondles a crack pipe in his hands. ![]() We see him chase after a woman and rob her, before retreating down a dark alley to drink and smoke. We’re introduced to Elder in a vice filled opening. Is he in control, or is the environment driving him mad? From: Bolivia, South America Watch: Trailer, Vimeo Next: A Touch of Sin, Tony Manero, El Dorado XXI The Breakdown We journey into the subterranean with Elder as his mind is consumed by the abyss. Day starts to blend into night, and scenes above ground start to dissolve into the scenes below ground as both are shrouded in darkness. Pretty much the entire film is set in darkness, either during the nighttime above ground, or underground during the daytime. The dark environment of the Huanuni mines and Bolivian city streets are a long way away from familiar landscapes. Dark Skull isn’t your typical character driven drama. ![]()
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