Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

September. 09,2023

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Documentary

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Childhood Experimental Personal Diary

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Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us: upbringing, social status, education, labour, and familial bonds. The memoir weaves into the film as both a contemplation on mortality and an illustration of fading memory, reflecting on how we pen our pasts and how they can be re-told.

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Reviews

AniInterview

2023/09/09

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Lucybespro

2023/09/10

It is a performances centric movie

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filippaberry84

2023/09/11

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Bumpy Chip

2023/09/12

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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