The Keep. 1983. Dir. Michael Mann

The Keep
Year: 1983
Director: Michael Mann
The keep is a movie
that mixes the horrors of the human nature and the horrors of science fiction. What
gripped my attention the first half of the movie was the social and human drama
of war and invasion. It is almost out of my imagination or to understand to
think about what it would be like to be in the place of millions of people that
lose everything they had even their dignity. I can stop thinking what I would
do and how I would react to a situation of that nature. This movie does not focus
in the atrocities of the Nazi invasion, but it shows the drama of it at some
extension. The lack of respect for private property and even life itself is absent
in extremes situation like wars and invasions. The special effects on this
movie are one of the best for the time it was made. Computer generated visual
effects in the 80’s was in its infancy. Many of the effects were done with
camera tricks. The scenography was really good. The town where the keep is at
is in this mysterious place in the middle of Romania. The keep itself is very interesting
the movie manage very well to keep the viewer interested in the mysteries of
the keep. The second half of the movie is about a supernatural force that is
killing the people at the keep. The jump from the drama of war to the drama of
a ghost or monster is drastic. The rest of the movie is about the eternal
battle of good and evil. The humans in this case have to make a wise decision that
of course we are not prepare to make. At the end everything is fine the humans
make the right decisions the good defeats the bad. They save the planet of a
great evil but the evil of human kind still destroys the lives of millions. I
thing one of the messages of the movie is that the eternal battle of good and
evil does not come from supernatural creatures but from us. We are the ones
that create horrible situations like wars, repression, hunger, intolerance,
hate.