In this lecture for Arts One at the University of British Columbia, Derek Gladwin talks about the degree to which this film revisits Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and deviates from it (the students had just read Conrad's novella), the style of filmaking that this film could be said to fit into, the historical and cultural context of the film, and cultural and literary references in the film.
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For a video with the slides embedded, see here: artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/franc...
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