‘Isn’t Anyone Alive?’ DvD review

Isn’t anyone Alive? DVD 2011 Japan Review

‘Isn’t Anyone Alive’, a 2011 film from Japan,  is an interesting and original take on the whole ‘end of the world’ film, with a number of different character’s who are all connected by this university hospital and the number of different event’s happening along with the world ending, by far one of the most original take on it I have seen so far, with a strange premise and even stranger film this is a quirky film that really is hard to fit in to a genre at all and it really shows by the fact it is hard to work out what you would really call it, but over it is an amazing bit of dramatic work and even has its own hints of darker style of humor but it is in between dramatic and shocking scene’s.

The large cast of characters are all well acted and none of the characters that you meet through the film feel like they shouldn’t be there, you in some way feel for these characters as you meet them and its best that you do otherwise this film will not live up to much with the way the plot goes, seeing as the character’s don’t really last long you still feel like they where important in some way.

The Camera work and lighting is great in the film and really help show the scenes and the high quality of the film, increasingly showing the director’s skill and the talent for filmmaking.

The music that is in certain films really just fit the scene’s and doesn’t feel force like it could it many films, and helps add to the scene’s that lack music showing how important they are, the one scene where the music is diegetic is there for a very dark comic effect of one character’s death.

The Scale of the world ending I feel isn’t really given until the end of the film, before that it really just feels like this could be an isolated to just this university and its hospital, until the end of the film and you really get this feeling of the world is gone.

By the end of the film I felt that this was a pretty good film over all, maybe not the best work to be introduced to for this director but I loved the different and original take on the end of the world, the characters and there dialogue, the lighting and music, a good dramatic film with some shocking image’s and actions,    and dark humor in places.