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Friday, January 5, 2018

A Certain Kind of Death (2003)

An American documentary directed by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh.
This film examines what happens when someone with no living relatives dies.
This was disgusting, but very detailed. The film follows the entire process that happens after the death of one man, but includes other corpses as well.  What they get right is following the whole process. Each person who handles this man's case is interviewed and explains their job. The interviews aren't very interesting on their own, but must be taken together to make sense. The camera-work was a little dull, but you wouldn't want to see crazy angles and interesting pans or tilts in this type of subject matter. The audio was a little low and ending with the song, "Scarborough Fair" seemed a little odd to me. Don't watch this if seeing really disgusting stuff grosses you out. The workers in this image are dumping cremation boxes into a mass grave. Nothing like breathing in some dead people! I rate it o.k. because I look for a little more excitement in films that get my higher ratings.

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