The outer worlds the empty man7/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Del Ray’s 2014 graphic novel-a sci-fi epic set in a destroyed America buckling under government quarantine and beset by a psychic plague causing insanity and violence- The Empty Man streamlines and refines its source material into a highly subjective procedural-slash-weird-tale. Or is he suddenly full up?įreely adapted by Prior, previously a director of DVD documentaries and featurettes, from Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. It would seem that he’s been hollowed out. ![]() Dragged back to the surface, he has become a husk, limbs locked and rapidly atrophying, staring out at the world with eyes wide shut. After literally stumbling into a cliffside cavern-the first unexpected plunge in a movie whose characters constantly find themselves either on shaky ground or descending into a darkness of their own volition-Paul (Aaron Poole) becomes transfixed by a skeletal figure whose meditative posture he adopts, seemingly permanently and much to the bewilderment of his fellow backpackers. It is in the migration of this mindset from snowy Bhutan to small-town Missouri, muled from East to West by the unlucky occidental tourist who doubles as its title character, that David Prior’s film locates both its celestial sense of scale and a fine-grained gestural specificity. Over and again throughout The Empty Man, we see characters sitting in the lotus position, cross-legged and attentive, a pose connoting receptivity. ![]()
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