Homefront's mass grave scene.
Maybe this year we'll jab triangle to weep openly, or mash circle to leap onto the casket as it's lowered into the ground, thumping the lid while wailing, "Why, God, WHY?" (Even then, it's never going to top THQ's Homefront for weapons-grade crassness; one scene invited players to "press X to jump in mass grave").. Homefront's mass grave scene.
It is actually a relief to return to the grave scenes describing the war.
Not long ago, Grozny (the name means "terrible" in Russian) offered a panorama of sagging husks of buildings and unmarked graves, scenes that eerily resembled the ruins left by the most destructive urban battles of World War II.
Smiling children, open graves: Scenes from the battle for Mosul.
The first scene with the walk-ins rising up from their grave, shot at Griffith Park above the playground, was "tricky," according to director Kim Manners.
I have watched the film twice (the first time was when it opened Critic's Week at Cannes last year) and still can't decide if the audience-wrongfooting effect in a certain grave-visiting scene is deliberate or not.
Robert Cox was the leading performer of drolls, and his repertoire included "The Merry Conceits of Bottom the Weaver" from A Midsummer Night's Dream and "The Bouncing Knight, or The Robbers Rob'd" from Henry IV, Part I. Other subjects of drolls were Falstaff, the grave-diggers' scene in Hamlet, and, occasionally, biblical adaptations.
Although it does allow for Boyle to engage in some Shallow Grave -era scenes of Grand Guignol (discovery bodies), Trance works best as a violent, repressed mind-bender, with things less explained.
"The Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help," Schulz told Germany's Die Welt newspaper.
De Silva did not explain the cause of death but declared the mass grave a crime scene.
