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I think when viewers
around the world finally get a chance to see the 2006 short film
co-starring Cillian Murphy (you know the guy from that movie with the
Batman), they will expect a spotlight on Murphy, but the truth of the
matter is while Murphy is in the film he's only seen for two instances
and there is zero dialogue around his character. What "The Silent City"
really is is a seven minute director reel for Ruairi Robinson who
manages to construct a post apocalyptic wasteland with the use of CGI
and desolate landscapes all the while painting the story of a group of
soldiers at war with seemingly no one.
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We enter in
to a warzone where the battle has been fought, the clash has
finished and the remaining troops from the world are at a
loss for what to do next. They enter in to traps set by
mysterious assailants, shoot down their own, and seem all
too shell shocked to realize that they may just be chasing
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We never actually see
what or who it was that they fought against long before the movie began,
but we know based upon their inability to surpass the traps set by
former forces that they may not have won, and that the war has likely
been over for decades but they're too much in a state of panic to
realize that it's time to stop shooting and time to start picking up the
pieces and lick their wounds. Robinson's direction is stark and
disturbing and the short ends on an ambiguous note that is dreary and
unsettling.
Folks expecting a
Cillian Murphy spotlight with a dazzling spectacle will be sorely
disappointed as Murphy is merely a grain of plot in a rather memorable
science fiction short based around a lost war and troops that aren't
aware that they're only fighting themselves.
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