War

War is Jake Mahaffy's bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic future - or perhaps present - where characters go on living, desperately holding on to their everyday routines, although obviously affected by the lack of meaning in their existence.
Set in rural Pennsylvania, among abandoned barns and muddy fields, this black and white film first introduces us to Jack Master, a middle-aged pastor driving down empty roads, sometimes stopping to knock on doors to invite people to his little New Life Church of God. We also meet Jacob Jenkins, perhaps the only farmer left, wall(ing around his property looking for holes in the fence while
contemplating the holes in his soul. Hanky the Junkman is responsible for the machinery on Jacob's farm and fears that ''If something goes wrong then pretty soon everything's wrong and nothing works.''
The characters in War move around aimlessly, a dog is killed, a funeral held, life is going in circles or not going anywhere at all, while endless preachings are transmitted over the radio: ''This is the world after the end of a world ... acre by acre, fence by fence, the war was lost.'' The question asked is whether God survived the apocalypse or if mankind is on its own.

JONATHAN ROZENKRANZ

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Paul Mahaffy, Jeff Clark, Andy Yurick: Producent
Jake Mahaffy: Manus
Jake Mahaffy: Foto
Jake Mahaffy: Talat språk
English