Despite all this desolation and depression, however, "Still Life" is an extremely beautiful movie: the river and the green mountains on both sides of it extend into the distance in majestic panoply; gray clouds hang over the scene like painted backdrops.
In the restoration phase the participants who saw a nature movie (including river sounds) rated themselves as having more energy after the restoration period in comparison with both the participants who listened to noise and river sounds.
The pair have also written a screenplay for a "road and river movie", which is, he says, "a very black comedy, quite disturbing".
In his review for the Guardian, Alfred Hickling drew an unlikely parallel, saying: The film stands as a brilliantly rendered, giddily self-referential satire of contemporary American culture; though much the same could be said about the Lego Movie, with which River of Fundament shares more in common than it may care to admit.
The aim of the present study was to investigate cognitive, emotional, and physiological effects of two open-plan office noise conditions (high noise: 51 LAeq and low noise: 39 LAeq) during work in a simulated open-plan office, followed by four restoration conditions (river movie with sound, only river sound, silence, and office noise) after the work period.
Before the movie is over, several rivers' worth of suds have gurgled down its overtaxed drain.
Film-maker Bill Morrison's movie-collage The Great Flood, a solemn procession of battered, monochrome movie images from the Mississippi river disaster of 1927, would be a memorable drama even played in total silence.
It is the haunted river of the movie "Apocalypse Now" and legendary for its aquatic life – unsurpassed in the staggering dimensions of its megafish and tons of its fish harvest, and surpassed only by the Amazon for its diversity of fish species.
It's worth pointing out what Oldroyd does not take from Leskov: the novella concludes with a forced march and an act of mad revenge in a swollen river, whereas the movie stops short of all that, sticking close to home.
It might be at a bowling alley, movie theater, restaurant or even a river where you can canoe.
