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On The Silver Globe

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On The Silver Globe	comment	On the Silver Globe (Polish: Na srebrnym globie) is a Polish film premiered in 1988 (after a 10 year delay due to Communism-bourne fears of subversive content via a vice-minister of culture), directed by Andrzej Żuławski (Who also directed Possession). The film is based on parts of a trilogy of novels called The Lunar Trilogy (Polish: Trylogia KsiÄ™Å¼ycowa), written by the directorâ€™s great-uncle Jerzy Å»uÅ‚awski, an early-20th-century writer and thinker.The opaque, if not labyrinthine plot starts out regarding a group of astronauts (two men and a woman) who leave Earth to find freedom. Their spaceship crashes on an unnamed Earth-like planet (Implied to possibly be The Dark Side of the Moon, though this is left ambiguous especially as the surface looks nothing like the real-life Moon).The astronauts are equipped with video-recorders and so most of the film is presented as FoundFootage (and may indeed be a very notable early example of the technique in modern cinema). This is addressed in the plot in several points where the black square-like recorders are transferred from one of the main characters to a supporting one, with one astronaut at one point wondering if anyone will ever see the footage so meticulously recorded.After some navel-gazing about freedom and the nature of existence in general, the trio reach a seashore where they find the atmosphere more tolerable. They decide to start a new civilization, free of the traditional chains and bonds of society. Thus over time they end up building a village.After many many years, only one member of the crew, Jerzy, is still alive to watch the growth of a new society, with a religion based on mythical tales about the expedition from Earth. The first off-Earth generation calls him The Old Man, treating him as a demi-God. The Old Man eventually leaves them and before his death, sends his video diary back to Earth in a rocket, stored at a remote burial site where one of the other astronaut's preserved corpse (inside their spacesuit) lies on a pile of rocks.The rocket reaches Earth where a space researcher named Marek (Andrzej Seweryn) receives the video diary and soon travels to the planet. On arrival, he is welcomed by the cast of priests as the Messiah, who can release them from the captivity of the Szerns (sometimes spelled Sherns or Cherns, depending on translation), indigenous crow-like occupants of the planet. Shortly afterwards, Marek organizes an army and enters the city of the Szerns. Meanwhile, the priests start to believe that Marek was an outcast from the Earth, rather than a messiah who came to fulfill the religious prophecy.Unfortunately, about 20% of the film was left unfilmed, largely because of the above vice-minister's executive meddling. These parts were patched with stock footage and voice-over descriptions of the missing scenes. One such clip being the oddly hypnotic still-cam footage of Polish people riding down an escalator in what may be either an airport or subway.The OTHER notable thing (besides the running time which reaches nearly 3 hours) is the philosophical dialogue that suffers (or improves) by a translation into English. Suffers for losing some of the accuracy or subtleties of the director's commentary, and improves for the esoteric and greater-scope of big-question debates that the characters ruminate over. The movie in itself is still largely coherent.Fans of director Alejandro Jodorowsky will probably enjoy this film immensely.Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFf5BGNpnJ0
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On The Silver Globe / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The eyes on hands as seen with the Fire-Girl servant.
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On The Silver Globe / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Nearly every character is this in one form of another.
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On The Silver Globe / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: Averted. Despite taking place on an alien world / the moon, the sky is blue with white clouds and overcast skies seen throughout the film at various points.
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On The Silver Globe / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: The Old Man's final act is to send his log of all the events back to Earth for posterity and perhaps just to have a record of his life for someone else to see.
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On The Silver Globe / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: Jerzy seems to cotton on to the fact that the children of his fellow astronauts have taken him to be a god-like figure and despite his intentions to alter the course of this new experiment as little as possible— as he ages and all reminders of his old life slip away... his sanity slips to the point where anything he says, even in madness, is taken with great reverence by the people on the beach town.
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On The Silver Globe / int_885b0b18	comment	Interplanetary Voyage: The astronauts travel from Earth to the unnamed planet, which is evidently close enough to send back a rocket of the video logs and Casual Interplanetary Travel.
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On The Silver Globe / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Marek ultimately does serve as a messiah-like figure, unfortunately for him, via crucifixion.
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On The Silver Globe / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: Ooh boy... so the civilization sprung from the three astronauts (literally - they're the astronauts' children, don't ask) develops its own myths and culture, reveres the Old Man as a demi-god, and has prophesies of someone who will save them from the indigenous bird people; Cue the arrival of Marek which only serves to reaffirm their believes... at least for a time.
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On The Silver Globe / int_aa483bdc	comment	Desert Punk: Or perhaps Beach Punk. Mostly takes place along the shores of an unnamed sea, though both at the very beginning and towards the end we see more varied landscapes, including snow and Earth-like (crumbling) architecture.
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On The Silver Globe / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Though 'Apocalyptic' only in the sense that its a brand new civilization that could bloom or wither at any time, and where time seems to progress differently than on Earth. The camera diegetically logs all important events as everything the audience sees on the planet is from the POV of one of the video cameras that the astronauts had with them. Later, the fourth astronaut, Marek, is inspired by watching the logs, and travels to the planet in search of more concrete answers.
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On The Silver Globe / int_b537784e	comment	Fauxlosophic Narration: A weird, rambling movie based on a weird, rambling book that has a Mad Oracle in it...
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On The Silver Globe / int_f2dfde12	comment	Things Are More Effective in Hollywood: The cameras never seem to run out of energy, though this may be due to the time difference on the planet.
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