2010
Rated: Unrated
Genre: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Directed By: Larry Longstreth
Written By: Larry Longstreth
4Reelz LLC.
Running Time: 1:13
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 12/16/10

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THE 3RD LETTER

 

It's pretty apparent by director Grzegorz Jonkajtys' newest film, that his view of the world is not sugar coated and fanciful, but indeed dark and morbid. "The 3rd Letter" is yet another post-apocalyptic look at the world through the eyes of a man who clearly has no hope for humanity and features an even more disturbing look at a world on the brink of annihilation thanks to our own willingness to destroy ourselves. This time a live action film, "The 3rd Letter" is set in a world where factories have overrun the cityscapes blanketing the environment in poisonous and toxic fog from smoke stacks.

Of course the government has profited off of this by allowing citizens with a new technology that allows them to breath and live without being affected, but the system is so congested, the lower class has a difficult time finding a means of survival. We spotlight a young factory worker who is having a tough time paying off his pacemaker that allows him to breath in the toxic fumes, and now he's struggling to find a loophole in the device that can give him a chance to live one more day.  

The struggles this character endures is agonizing to witness as he occupies sterile and often blank spaces hoping to survive for another day where he'll spend it figuring out how to live for another. The endless cycle is vicious and truly terrible, especially as he must fix his pacemaker before its battery life wastes before his very eyes. Jonkajtys is a truly gifted filmmaker who knows how to invoke emotions of bleak futility in our world filled with all sorts of means of destruction and waste, and channels his skills in yet another end of a society doomed to shoot itself in the foot.

Harrowing and excruciating to sit through, "The 3rd Letter" features director Grzegorz Jonkajtys in his comfort zone where he spotlights a future where we've managed to digress in to extinction rather than progress in to a new world order. Fans of the sub-genre need apply.

 

 

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