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Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe reunite for the sixth time in the film SIBERIA about a man who is on a shattering journey of self-discovery. What attracted me to this choice of movie was Willem Dafoe and the compelling visual style of the film.
The film opens to a snow storm in the mountains. Clint, Willem Dafoe, works behind a bar in an isolated in where forlorn journeymen stop to warm their weary bones. The sporadic action is limited to this snowy retreat until he ties up the dogs and leaves. The characters appear and disappear without beginning or end about their relationship with Clint. Some images are disturbing like when he finds an old woman suffering in the cellar.
At this point we are almost midway through the movie when he enters a cave, then he travels with his dogs in a desert until they reach an oasis. There is a lot of shamanic undertones throughout the movie. In the shamanic practice of entering into a spirit journey the shaman must visualize then cross an entrance. This can be a cave, a watering hole, going down a stairway; all symbols that repeat throughout the film.
If I stay with the shamanic theme, his gorgeous sleigh dogs then can be paralleled to the animal spirit guides that accompany the shaman on the other side.
Definitely a dark movie.
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