What is this inaugural light? A beginning (birth), an end (near death experience)? What is this language? Inhuman, prehuman?
The first 20 minutes of the movie are mute, repetitive, mesmerizing.
It is a drifting, a hunt, a roaming, a ballet.
With a minimum pitch (aliens tracking down humans). J. Glazer casts a sharp look on our world which is beautiful, swarming but also meaningless and loud.
We understand this is a world of predation only, however gorgeous the predator might be (Scarlet Johansson perfect).
And the predator is also a prey, especially if she is a woman.
There is no such thing as a safe place.
Fire overcomes ice and a fantastic mutation occurs. The skin that we thought soft reveals a black heart. A screams is uttered in the dark loneliness of the world.
At night, the hunters come back in the howling of the mist. Skinless, the prey bleeds on the burning of the sun.
The best movie of 2013.
