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Ben Rivers
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Two Years at Sea (2011) is a English movie. Ben Rivers has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. Two Years at Sea (2011) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
After working at sea, a man realizes his dream of moving to the middle of the forest.
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Two Years at Sea (2011) Reviews
There will be Beard
The first feature-length film by experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers, "Two Years At Sea" watches as a former sailor, Jake Williams, lives a solitary life in the Scottish wilderness. Devoid of dialogue, we watch as Jake spends his days washing, eating, cooking, fishing and so forth. Occasionally Jake constructs simple tools with bits of industrial refuse. Jake Williams was the subject of another Ben Rivers film, 2006's "This is My Land". Both films are shot in black and white (with antique cameras), both salivate over a nature that is as beautiful as it is inhospitable, and both are slow and languid, Rivers submerging his audience in the rhythms of Jake's way of life. Most of Rivers' films have been about outsiders and the socially marginalised. Like Williams, Rivers is himself somewhat self-reliant, going out of his way to eke out a career "beyond society" and outside of convectional industries. Whilst "Two Years At Sea" does not intend this, its grim portrayal of life off-the-grid sets up several false assumptions; self-sufficiency or "back to nature" lifestyles need not be anti-social, anti-communal, low-tech or pre-civilisational. 6/10 – Occasionally powerful, "Two Years At Sea" is mostly ponderous and slight. Worth one viewing.
Tedium
Oh Lord, this is simply one of the dullest films I've seen in a long time. I have to advise that this contains a spoiler - that's right - there's no plot anyway. Long shots where nothing happens. Some still photos hinting at a life beforehand. A scene where we watch him sitting on his inflatable and then for fully five minutes watch as it drifts a few metres back to shore. And the long long slow finish.... Tedium beyond belief. I went as I believed in a certain review in The Guardian that suggested there was something in here which was thought provoking - "Quietly enigmatic, valuable work." Enigmatic - well yes, if you call being wilfully opaque, enigmatic. But valuable? I disagree.
Terrible, terrible, terrible
There's no point clicking the spoiler button because there literally is no plot, no narrative, nothing. I get the concept, guy lives live as a hermit, he does mundane things like walk through the beautiful countryside and falls asleep loads. He doesn't need material things, he's quite content this way. Every now and then you see old photographs of his family which makes you wonder what actually happened to them. There's no clue at all. All I can think is this is the life he has chosen, or maybe he does see them but we don't see that. Either way, who really cares. Its shot in black n white with the only dialogue being socks. Some of the music is OK Quite simply one of the dullest films ever made