August 16, 2009 — Patrick Zimmerman

The Silent City: An Introspectively Surreal Vision of War

The Silent City is an astonishing Oscar-nominated short film by Ruairi Robinson, which brilliantly combines computer graphics with live footage. The film is a concisely introspective surreal story about wartime, which shows the ordeal of three soldiers who are on the outskirts of a war torn city. While patrolling an area in a secluded sector of a now silent city, a bomb is accidentally set off and they have to wait for help. One reviewer claims that The Silent City rivals anything seen about wartime since Coppola’s Apocalypse Now or Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. The film provides a powerful statement about our troops who are now facing death in foreign lands.

The Silent City: An Introspectively Surreal Vision of War

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