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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
This experimental film depicts man's struggle to transcend his own mortality.
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: | Bill Morrison |
| DIRECTED BY: | Bill Morrison |
| RELEASE DATE: | Theatrical: March 19, 2003 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 70 minutes, B / W |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Lucio F. gave it a2:
An interesting exercise that certainly has its moments of haunting beauty: unfortunately those moments are rare and of no great intensity. At 30', the collage would have been memorable. At 70', it's just boring and pretentious. 2/10
RJ Beeswax gave it a 9:
There is a disquieting and ominous force that often reveals itself in the damaged abstractions and specific scenes in the decomposed footage of Brian Morrisons film, Decasia: The State of Decay. This force is the lawfulness of time and nature and it is often presented ambiguously through contrast and connotation. This force can also be seen as the inevitability of death and decay, and it is made real when contrasted with the specifics of lives and times, people and places, long since forgotten. All our memories, once real-life moments, are temporary and its a heavy concept to grasp (for me anyway), perhaps the concept(s) of death/decay/transitoriness is too inscrutable to fully recognize or acknowledge in any thorough or systematic way. This concept of mortality is inherently enigmatic and because of the unfathomable quality of the concept, film-maker Brian Morrison decided to artfully imply it by showing memories and moments within/upon, time-ravaged, stock footage, as a metaphor for existence. All things must meet an end And Decasia: The State of Decay, deals with this inevitability in an abstract way that is both haunting and sensual.

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