Necrology
The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1970 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Standish Lawder |
| Runtime | 12 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.8/10 (27 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
The film constructs a hypnotic meditation on urban alienation through its minimalist, powerful device of a single continuous take. It relies on pure observation, transforming the mundane act of an escalator descent into an archaeological study of the human condition.
What lingers after viewing is not a story, but a state of being—a slowed-down time where faces become masks, revealing a universal civilizational fatigue. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Standish Lawder
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