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Ricoh myPrint‏‏⁫

Utilities and Productivity

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Using the Ricoh myPrint app requires access to a Ricoh myPrint environment. The Ricoh myPrint...

R Programming Language with Essential Reference

Reference and Utilities

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The classic R programming language for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Programming language is a...

Tatra banka VIAMO

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S aplikáciou Tatra banka VIAMO posielate peniaze cez mobil priamo na slovenské telefónne číslo....

Awix (3310 KP) rated Deluge (1933) in Movies

Apr 23, 2019 (Updated Apr 23, 2019)

Deluge (1933)

1933 | Drama, Sci-Fi

7.0

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Pre-Code apocalyptic disaster movie boldly goes where Roland Emmerich would follow several times; also manages to be almost definitively non-compliant with the Bechdel test. A series of unexplained disasters including floods and earthquakes destroy civilisation; in the aftermath resourceful lawyer Martin hooks up with plucky society girl Claire, little realising his wife and children survived the catastrophe. Then fate brings them all back together...

The destruction of New York is the most celebrated sequence in the movie, and it stands up relatively well as an example of practical effects in action, but it happens in the first quarter of the movie. Most of the rest of it is concerned with surprisingly familiar post-apocalyptic themes - people come together and struggle to rebuild, raiders prey on settlements, people question familiar moral standards, and so on. The film's gender politics are startling, to say the least: women appear to have no rights and are basically property (and then civilisation crumbles, ha ha). It is interesting and indicative that the film ends with the affirmation of the traditional moral order. Not exactly subtle or nuanced, and the acting is fairly robotic, but it's pacy and the story is an engaging one. An interesting movie that suggests things haven't changed as much as we sometimes think.