Severance Cold Harbor Ben Stiller

    by Francesco Eunchae: Ben Stiller

    What SEVERANCE pulls off with Mark by the end of COLD HARBOR is the part I keep coming back to, his whole personal mission gets flipped into something way more devastating than I was braced for. Ben Stiller lets the dread creep in the whole way there too, everything so clinical to look at and the sound design just crawling under your skin

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    Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark, come on, get out of here! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark, let's go! We gotta go home! We gotta go home! Mark, let's go! Mark! Mark! Mark, no! No! No, no, no! Mark! Mark, what are you doing? Mark! . . . Round like a circle in a spiral, Like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel. Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon. Like a carousel that turning running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face and the world is like an apple whirling silently in space like the circles that you find in the wind mills of your mind Like a tunnel that you follow To a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern Where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving In a half-forgotten dream Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind you