Old Blues Chapter and Verse | You Carry a Coffin Today: Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen (spoilers) @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
In which I discuss the film's vision of the death of the soul under brutal conditions, the breakdown of the body in the act of dying by starvation, and the possibility of there being ends worth more than the preservation of one's own life.

The announcement of this project can be seen here:

youtube.com/watch?v=zpDj0MdLkZI&t=2s

The remaining schedule for this project is thus (please join in if you're at all interested):

*book or play
~film
°poems

November:
*Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Julian Barnes)

December:
*Benediction (Kent Haruf)
~The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir: Patrice Leconte)

Films mentioned or discussed herein:

- Hunger (dir: Steve McQueen)
- Shame (dir: Steve McQueen(
- 12 Years a Slave (dir: Steve McQueen)
- A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick)