I didn't actually know that First Reformed was playing with the same type of story (I mostly just knew "anxious priest") but that makes sense.
It's more than just the type of story, the first half of the movie is a remake in all but name, including the very austere style. After that, the difference in story (and it being, well, a Paul Schrader movie) turns it into something different. But yeah, Ozu might be a good comparison too.
I've spent 2019 watching one Bergman movie per week (curse you, huge DVD box set they released for his 100th birthday last year) and... it gets a bit much, but very few of his movies are boring. I'm just constantly amused by how they were sold in the US. Viz this trailer for The Silence.
I think it does maybe hint at some of the ways in which the show's deep focus on that ship is somewhat at odds with commenting on our current troubles as individual humans, like if BtVS were just the scene where Anyanka explains the inevitability of the proletariat uprising to Halfrek. Which is only a problem insofar as GO does seem to be trying to be that for us.
Heh. I like that comparison.
Aziraphale and Crowley dropping out in order to live out their (indefinite) lives quietly rather than having to actively work to bring about the Apocalypse is more appropriate for a time in which the primary problem was the intractable war between two behemoths, where if everyone just stopped and hung out with each other instead everything would mostly be okay. That's not really our problem now.
That's a really good point. At the same time, with a bit of hindsight, I feel like there's a lot more to the story than just a cold war metaphor. The kids' rejection of the pre-programmed apocalypse that's enabled by A&C works, even if I think the series could have made more of it. In a way, it feels like the ending doesn't so much solve the old conflict as render it irrelevant; heaven and hell become interchangeable and therefore pointless, A&C get to live together as retirees, and the next apocalypse is a different matter. I'm not sure that's a good ending, it certainly doesn't dial back the nostalgia factor, but it's one that's at lest internally consistent.
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I didn't actually know that First Reformed was playing with the same type of story (I mostly just knew "anxious priest") but that makes sense.
It's more than just the type of story, the first half of the movie is a remake in all but name, including the very austere style. After that, the difference in story (and it being, well, a Paul Schrader movie) turns it into something different. But yeah, Ozu might be a good comparison too.
I've spent 2019 watching one Bergman movie per week (curse you, huge DVD box set they released for his 100th birthday last year) and... it gets a bit much, but very few of his movies are boring. I'm just constantly amused by how they were sold in the US. Viz this trailer for The Silence.
I think it does maybe hint at some of the ways in which the show's deep focus on that ship is somewhat at odds with commenting on our current troubles as individual humans, like if BtVS were just the scene where Anyanka explains the inevitability of the proletariat uprising to Halfrek. Which is only a problem insofar as GO does seem to be trying to be that for us.
Heh. I like that comparison.
Aziraphale and Crowley dropping out in order to live out their (indefinite) lives quietly rather than having to actively work to bring about the Apocalypse is more appropriate for a time in which the primary problem was the intractable war between two behemoths, where if everyone just stopped and hung out with each other instead everything would mostly be okay. That's not really our problem now.
That's a really good point. At the same time, with a bit of hindsight, I feel like there's a lot more to the story than just a cold war metaphor. The kids' rejection of the pre-programmed apocalypse that's enabled by A&C works, even if I think the series could have made more of it. In a way, it feels like the ending doesn't so much solve the old conflict as render it irrelevant; heaven and hell become interchangeable and therefore pointless, A&C get to live together as retirees, and the next apocalypse is a different matter. I'm not sure that's a good ending, it certainly doesn't dial back the nostalgia factor, but it's one that's at lest internally consistent.