Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 5.0
Someone Finally Got It Right.
This is what death looks, feels and sounds like. "Last Days" is one long , silent scream for help, that goes unheard until it's too late. The sound and cinematography are pristine and beautiful and the pacing may seem slow but is painfully realistic in it's depiction of sadness, isolation and the loss of one's life force (or the dispersal of his chi as Ray Manzarek would put it) and will linger with the viewer for a long time. Kim Gordon makes a brief but memorable cameo as a record exec., and makes a final futile attempt at drawing Blake out of himself only to leave away empty handed. The scenes of Blake composing and recording his final music are the most telling and hypnotic, they lend the film it's greatest sense of sadness and insanity.Deeply depressing, wonderfully acted, filmed and framed like a fine painting and touching to even the most jaded viewer, "Last Days" is an elegaic masterpiece that may bore most people, but is impossible to stop thinking about once you've experienced it.One of the greatest 'rock movies' ever made.