"What am I doing this for?" Two men in a vast desert. One is the Hunter, the other is the Game. A sophisticated savage chases the victim down the sand day and night, not demanding anything, but simply mocking, inventing all possible trials and tortures.
"Dry bone" is a minor thriller, practically unknown to the mass audience, who he is not interested in fact, but worthy of the attention of the followers of half-arthouse tapes, unusual in form, not in context. The absence of a weighty budget is not an obstacle to the filming of the chamber artina, the scenic boundaries of which are limited in this case not by the close closed space, but by the wide, but by the one wide, but by the one stretches of the American desert. The main thing is that the director had a really interesting idea and an exclusive look at her screen embodiment, which made Dry Bone an original and exciting film, albeit very cheap.
This picture will either catch immediately, with its own and long-term policy, after which the title of the film appears, or is not interested in general. Already in the first third chronology, it becomes clear that visually, except for the desert, we will see nothing more, and all the actions will be carried by only two hero-adversary in the execution of Luke Goss and Lance Henrixen. The whole tape is exhaustingly cruel and mysterious in the sense of the opposition of these people. The Victim (Goss) will wander endlessly through the desert, suffering physically and morally, and the merciless Hunter (Henrixen) will be washed over her with manic persistence, with this sustained self-torture of the deep inside. And only in the final will reveal the essence of the conflict, the heroes will throw off the masks not only in front of the audience, but in front of each other.
With minimal production costs, "Dry bone" is very good as in the scenery, as well as in directing, operatic work and acting. The telling story is interesting by the non-standard concept of “duels in the desert”, the harsh realism of the events taking place and the psychological validity of the behavior of the heroes. Both performances were real “live” people, but the difference in the level of acting performance is still felt. If Luke Goss is good, Lance Henriksen is great. The appeals of both heroes are unambiguous and contradictory, but Goss looks at it in opposition to the murderous charisma of Henriksen, who literally dissolved in his character, revealing to the viewer at one time a terrible and tragic setting. Lance does not often play key roles and does not always work in high-quality cinema, but when Henrixen manages to fill the central stage in a good film, then the maximum of attention is attached to his character and this feeling is still present.
In the quartina, a cruel thriller and a serious drama about crime and punishment are harmonically intertwined. Blood on the screen is a little, but the psychological horror of the situation is high. The film is frightened by the pain and fear that a person can experience, but the true nightmare will appear in the final when all the arts are laid out on the table. The beast lives in every human being, but what do you have to do to get him out? "Dry bone" gives an answer to this question.
9 out of 10