R.E.D.2 Influences

City of dreadful night

O melancholy Brothers, dark, dark, dark!
O battling in black floods without an ark!
     O spectral wanderers of unholy Night!
My soul hath bled for you these sunless years,
With bitter blood-drops running down like tears:
     Oh dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light!

My heart is sick with anguish for your bale;
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail
     And perish in your perishing unblest.
And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope
Of all our universe, with desperate hope
     To find some solace for your wild unrest.

And now at last authentic word I bring,
Witnessed by every dead and living thing;
     Good tidings of great joy for you, for all:
There is no God; no Fiend with names divine
Made us and tortures us; if we must pine,
     It is to satiate no Being's gall.

It was the dark delusion of a dream,
That living Person conscious and supreme,
      Whom we must curse for cursing us with life;
Whom we must curse because the life he gave
Could not be buried in the quiet grave,
     Could not be killed by poison or the knife.

This little life is all we must endure,
The grave's most holy peace is ever sure,
     We fall asleep and never wake again;
Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh,
Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh
     In earth, air, water, plants, and other men.

  James "B.V." Thomson 1870-73

I found the above poem after doing some research into quotations that I could use at the end of my film, I found that this poem resonates particularly with me, it's seems as though everything i wanted to say in the film is here in this text, what was even more striking was the date it was written.

I have been influenced by the Swedish band " Shining" whose lyrical content and conceptual ideas revolve around the idea of " suburban misery". I also liked the atmosphere that the scenes in the cities in "lost In Translation" and " Until The Light Takes Us" that was created.