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Johnny Depp | ... | ||
Gary Farmer | ... | ||
Crispin Glover | ... | ||
Lance Henriksen | ... | ||
Michael Wincott | ... | ||
Eugene Byrd | ... | ||
John Hurt | ... | ||
Robert Mitchum | ... | ||
Iggy Pop | ... | ||
Gabriel Byrne | ... | ||
Jared Harris | ... | ||
Mili Avital | ... | ||
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Jimmie Ray Weeks | ... |
Marvin, Older Marshal
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Mark Bringelson | ... |
Lee, Younger Marshal
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John North | ... |
Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody", who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side. Written by Anonymous
What a movie!... didn't want to see it at first.. But, then, when it begins, you take the trip with Blake to the big sea.
So beatiful pictures, such poetry in every single one of them. Hypnotic black and white scenes, still and vast nature, music that takes you down the other side.
It's the unconsious trip of one man to death, slowly descending to another level, deeper into nature. Or is he already dead and is not aware of it? Rivers, trees, animals and spirits to guide him along the way. This is a trip to self-knowledge, a hallucinational, sweet and slow resignation from needs and senses.
Amazing directing, incredible photography and an also amazing Johnny Depp, sunk in his own visions and thoughts, excellent in his portrayal of a man's abdication to parrallel levels of consiousness.
Thank god there is the indie american film making, that we see such beatiful movies.