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Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. Transcending language and culture, CANOPY is a cinematic tour de force exploring the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity. (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment)
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A minimalistic movie from a war setting probably doesn’t get filmed every day. The lack of dialogues is made up for by an atmosphere that is thicker than maple syrup. Canopy is a movie about an American soldier whose plane crashes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know where he is, where the enemy is and the only thing going through his mind is that he wants to survive. The 80 minutes of this movie made me bate my breath and just stare at the jungle that I’ve never felt closer to. Three stars are relative; the movie isn’t bad at all, but it’s just a simple small-scale movie. If you swapped the war, the soldier and the environment for anything else, it’d end up looking the same.
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This movie intrigued me mainly because it even attempted something like this. It's the story of a soldier trying to survive in the jungle, but its pace is incredibly slow; it's essentially a film without action, which is very surprising given the subject matter. But that's what makes the film so interesting and so different. Moreover, it's almost wordless. In today's era, it’s truly an experiment. And it's not even that bad.
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