The trailer for ‘The Darkest Hour’ reveals the film’s unusual extraterrestrials, but otherwise looks like a pretty conventional alien invasion pic.
This is one of those improving proverbs that are the stock in trade of the contemporary glut of self-help manuals and talking therapies. The darkest hour has long been used figuratively to mean 'the lowest ebb' and there are many such examples of it in print dating from the late 1700s.
The English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller appears to be the first person to commit the notion that 'the darkest hour is just before the dawn' to print. His religious travelogue A Pisgah-Sight Of Palestine And The Confines Thereof, 1650, contains this view:
It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.
Quite the diverse collection of extraterrestrials have invaded theaters over the past several months, haven’t they? Between the metallic Transformers, the sinister creatures in Cowboys & Aliens, and the… spiky balls with sharp teeth in Attack the Block, filmmakers have been forced to be inventive, when it comes to designing these other-worldly visitors.
In the trailer for this winter’s The Darkest Hour, we get an early look at one of the more unusual alien species to hit the big screen in recent memory: orange-glowing electrical waves.
The source of the proverb isn't known. It may be Fuller himself, or he may have been recording a piece of folk wisdom. In 1858, much later than Fuller of course, Samuel Lover attributed the notion to the Irish, in Songs and Ballads:
There is a beautiful saying amongst the Irish peasantry to inspire hope under adverse circumstances:- "Remember," they say, "that the darkest hour of all. is the hour before day."
The Darkest Hour revolves around a pretty familiar setup: a small group of people -- in this case, young Americans vacationing in Moscow -- struggle to stay together and survive, in the wake of a global takeover by hostile forces that hail from another world. As mentioned before, things get a little weird, with regards to what these “unfriendly visitors” look like.
Release Date: 08/03/2011
Rating: PG13
Runtime: Not Yet Available
Genre: Science fiction, Thriller
Director: Chris Gorak
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
0 comments: on "The Darkest Hour (2011)"
Post a Comment