'Snake Gas' Review: David Jařab’s ‘Heart of Darkness' Riff Falls Flat
Some literary works are so powerful that they keep echoing centuries after they first became public. That's the case with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novella that helped define the Western view on colonization and which inspired dozens of other works of art. Snake Gas is the latest movie inspired by Heart of Darkness, using Conrad's provocative story to investigate racism, sexism, and immigration in Europe.
Drawing from this, Snake Gas transforms Eastern Europe into a wilderness that a man of the Occident must brave. The story follows Robert Klein as he searches for his brother who vanished after a mysterious work mission in a natural reserve in the Balkans. Robert hasn’t spoken with his brother in years but still decides to make a dangerous trip through swamplands and dirt roads in the hopes of finding out what happened with the missing man.
'Snake Gas' Is a Lackluster Reinvention of Joseph Conrad It’s impossible to watch Snake Gas and not think about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which masterfully used Conrad’s novella to discuss American Imperialism during the Vietnam War. Like Coppola before him, Jařab reuses the structure of Conrad’s story to explore a different kind of conflict between "civilized" people and natives, this time questioning the prejudices of Western Europe about the East.
There are many interesting ideas thrown into Snake Gas, but that quickly turns into an issue. With so many complex questions intertwined in the plot, any filmmaker would struggle to craft a cohesive narrative that could still keep audiences engaged. However, what makes Snake Gas even more inaccessible is how Jařab seems mostly concerned about the presentation of each scene instead of the cohesion of the whole.
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