A Lesson in Eloquence

I will qualify the following with this: A Ghost Story is the best movie of the decade, if not the century so far.

From the very beginning of the film the ambience is set with a colorful balance tinting every facet of the setting.

Broad and emotional, most of the film is accented only by solemn music.

Every scene is palpable with reason and being.

I honestly wish to give none of this film away in the hopes that you will go and experience it for yourself.

I am left haunted and yet joyful with each vignette in their reality.

One scene involving the overindulgence of a pie is excruciatingly drawn out a slow motion train wreck played out as observed by the viewer and a ghost in a shared lament of death.

The music is a sweeping monument to how a film should be scored. The work of Daniel Hart in curating the feeling and heart of the film is unequaled and is a true mastery of audial representation of the forlorn soul.

Those solemn tunes are only outdone by the masterpiece of the song “I Get Overwhelmed” by Dark Rooms. A haunting melody that will leave you longing for more time with it. Ending too suddenly the experience in the film is chilling.

As a whole the film is a true reality check. A way to introspect on how you can and may live your life.

A Ghost Story will twist you back and forth, shake you like a screaming baby and spit you out like chew. You cannot predict what may come in this representation of the inspection of death.

Ultimately the film is grounded in its human nature of growth and desire to move on. Refusal can have dire consequences, immortal consequences. The aspect ratio is nearly boxed, giving an increasingly claustrophobic sense to the film. As we see a character trapped, the pillars of black supporting the inner reality of the film seem to squeeze tighter and tighter around that reality, until freedom is won.

Time becomes you in A Ghost Story. Pulled down by the heaviness of such a dark reality, time will lift all things, as we are witness to in this film.

There is no moment of realization in this film. It itself is the realization; only as a whole can it be considered the work it is.

Behold this work of art. It is truly worth the watch. Despite its dark nature I am already anticipating the reprise.

Rating: 10/10