 The
journey ends and we see the protagonist wading in the sea,
cynically commenting on John Donnes text declaring
himself to be an Island or a shipwreck, contemplating
suicide. we see him dimly hanging from a beam at the
college.He intones the "Kyrie" before a shimmering vision of the crucifixion by his parents graveside from whence the journey recommences through the winter wilderness of Wales.
“But he himself went a day's journey into the
wilderness, and
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the drama does not end with the protagonists drowning, it
is another dream like sequence that cuts back into the
reality of the average day, the lake scene is intercut
with the artists daily ritual, rising, shaving and
bathing. We see repeats of the levee, but this time the
protagonist surveys a scene of destruction from his
balcony as the flats around him are torn down. He looks
down toward his land rover and another journey begins |
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Over the bleak scenes
of Wales, the narrator reads from Hamlets soliloquey and
the King James Bible
The
protagonist draws close to the shores of Lake Vyrnwy
where in real life he once intended suicide, strips off
and enters the lake (this was filmed on Christmas day)