Review of The Last Wave (1977) by Pavandeep S — 20 Aug 2007

A lot of times when I watch supernatural thriller, they sort of make it too Hitchcock in style or it just doesn't draw you in. I hate that. This is the supernatura, how can it not draw you in or at least make you know what is it.

For this movie, we see a lot about transitions and discovery, the theme of something forlorn. The camera really helps in that, when it moves, it is an uneasy disturbing movement, making transitions difficult, we see that in the aborigines living in a city, their culture absorbed into a metropolis, a city not their own.

The lead character is driven mainly by curiosity and then later, by sheerempathy, these people talking about premonitions and him having it. I personally thought it's a fascinating film, about the thin line between rational, pragmatic and tradition white, Protestant thought in conflict with the world as it is and also in conflict together with and against the primitive, primordial andantediluvian beliefs of a people, barely tainted by the New World, spiritually if not physically.