Logos

Worth the Wait
This film's release was pushed back three times, but now that it's here, I am saying it was totally worth the wait!

Logos is a moody film, brooding with depression and toying with suicide. It evolves slowly, and builds carefully, toward a surprising and enjoyable catharsis. Cerebral, sometimes bordering on pretentious, it makes the viewers think not just about the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and not even our own mortality, but about the basic meaning of life in the face of suffering. The ideas alluded to (I don't want to say presented because the film is not didactic at all) are clearly borrowed from Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy--hence the name. I strongly recommend you read Viktor's "Man's Search for Meaning".

For the budget the filmmaker took Logos as far as it could go. There are special effects pretty much in every frame, but these are not used in a gaudy, heavy-handed, gratuitous way. I see references to old time radio, film noire, surrealism, and avant garde...





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