Film Studies

Samuel Becket is a talented actor/director. He is Irish and left Ireland in the 20s-30s. He moved to Paris and was in Paris during the experimental film era. He was considered one of the 20th Century's greatest play writes. He was very interested in the theater of the absurd. There are collections of his plays that people have put on film. One of these is Breath which is a ball of mess. Hospital bed, bed pans, cigarettes, and other items that would be found in a hospital with someone who may have lung cancer or emphysema. There were little things that were noticed in the film. The cigarettes were placed very intelligently in a swastika formation. It was kind of scary because the breath sound made me think of The Grudge, a movie with the same sound when something bad was going to happen.