The last island
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The last island |
| Original title | The Last Island |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch / English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marleen Gorris |
| script | Marleen Gorris |
| production |
Laurens Geels , Dick Maas |
| music | Boudewijn Tarenskeen |
| camera | Marc Felperlaan |
| cut | Hans van Dongen |
| occupation | |
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The Last Island (original title: The Last Island ) is a feature film by the Dutch film director Marleen Gorris from 1990.
action
The film begins with the crash of a passenger plane on a desert island somewhere in the Pacific. The militant Nick, the young hot spur Jack, the meek biologist Pierre, the millionaire Sean and his gay friend Frank, Joanna, a self-confident young woman, the elderly lady Mrs. Godame and a dog are the only ones to survive the crash. After rescuing the dead passengers from the aircraft and burning them, they tried in vain to establish contact with the outside world with the radio. The stranded people are gradually settling in their new home. The island itself offers them enough food, and they use the wreckage and other materials to build protective shelters.
Soon afterwards, while fishing, they find a boat with a dead man lying in it. His skin shows strange traces of burns and the survivors realize that they are the last people on earth after a global catastrophe and that rescue is impossible.
The attempt to leave the island with a self-built boat fails and tensions soon arise within the group. In this part of the film some drastic scenes are shown, for example, after a snake has bitten young Jack, his hand is chopped off so that the poison does not spread through his body. When the wound becomes infected and the seriously injured man becomes an ever greater burden for the group, Nick finally poisons him without the knowledge and consent of the others.
Driven by a thirst for power, religious fanaticism and jealousy, men in particular come into conflict with one another. B. When it is decided who Joanna should sleep with in order to get pregnant and thus guarantee the survival of the human race. The situation escalates when Sean is killed in an argument and Frank takes revenge on Nick. The confrontations develop into bloody fights and only the two women survive, as they demonstrate inner strength and stick together until the end.
The film ends with Joanna and Mrs. Godame leaving the island with a second self-made boat and sailing out to sea.
Locations
The film was shot in various locations in Trinidad and Tobago .
criticism
The lexicon of international films called The Last Island an “end-of-time parable under feminist auspices that gives the 'strong sex' no chance of survival”. The film is "thematically convincing over long stretches, but in the end too much stuck to the genre patterns of action and adventure". "All hope rests on women here, the curse of the overly heavy ideological burden on film," remarked Cinema . The conclusion was: "Pathetic hymn to the strength of women."
Web links
- The last island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last island on prisma.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The last island. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 5, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de