The Sound of Insects

Poetic, esoteric and profound!
Watching and listening to "The Sound of Insects", its a narration that haunts you.

When we think of suicide, it's one person's quick way of ending their life and we are used to hearing about it on television and newspapers but what we don't hear are people who try to commit suicide, in this case through starvation and not knowing what to expect.

We often know through letters left behind of those who have went through with their suicide of the pain they lived in their life but with "The Sound of Insects", its the day-by-day narration of what the man committing suicide is feeling and experiencing at that minute.

We can easily relate or understand the concept of one not fitting in but we are not prepared to hear the self-torture that one will experience. The man committing suicide doesn't know what he will experience and what will happen. In his mind, stop eating and see how long it will take death to claim your life. But the way its narrated, there is...

Profound and Mesmerizing
This is a small movie, one you'll surely not see at the cineplex... no actor appears on screen, only a man's voice reciting his diary entries in a remote forested area as he slowly starves himself to death in a makeshift tent. Besides the visuals of the forest, the film is a collage of dream-like images, as the days turn into weeks as his body gradually shuts down.

The accrual of tension as time passes is haunting and disturbingly powerful. There's no moralizing, no grand questions put forward, no philosophizing, only a straightforward description of his disintegrating physical self over time. I watched this movie last week on netflix and it will not leave me be.

Certainly not for everyone; but, an experience you'll not forget.

Disturbing, raw, and... long.
This is the story of a man in his early forties who decided to commit suicide... through self-starvation.

The documentary is told entirely by narration accompanied by strange and miscellaneous film footage.

As a narrative the film is compelling and spooky. This man is truly recording his own agonizing death. He even goes so far as to tell us his masturbation habits, his bowel movement activity, and his philosophies of life itself. The man's words are torn straight from the pages of a journal that he kept with him throughout the entire process. The words are compelling, and it keeps you glued to your seat in anticipation, but the random film footage - used mostly as filler to keep the movie an hour-or-so - was lacking in entertainment value. Part of it was in full color, the other half was in black-and-white which gives the documentary a very odd vibe. As if the filmmakers couldn't decide which color scheme or what feel they wanted so they just did a...

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