1988 Directed by Steve De Jarnatt
After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
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"People are gonna help each other, won't they? I mean, rebuilding things, the survivors I mean."
"I think it's the insects' turn."
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The hopelessness of Miracle Mile is constantly at odds with its own romantic idealism, as to suggest that what we yearn to achieve is impossible but there's nothing wrong with trying anyway, even as the reality is damning. Such a balance within a real-time countdown narrative could easily be seen as disjointed, but the horror of the situation is perfectly offset by gestures of humility, the motions that we enact to continue our supposed self-designated purpose. As a glorious neon technical exercise, not to mention scored by Tangerine Dream, this is brilliant, but at its core, the speculative nature is precedent. It lingers long after the final moment - angry and defeated, overcome with emotion.
It’s the crack of dawn, 4 AM and you’re stuck in a neon-lit diner, it’s the twilight time where existential thought borders on nihilistic depression. You’ve missed a date with someone you believe to be the perfect soul mate. Much like an Edward Hopper painting, giant glass windows invite you into a world of loneliness and quiet contemplation. The patrons are comprised of the outcasts and misfits of society where coffee and breakfast are on tap to quench their desperation. You step outside and a pay phone starts ringing, there’s no-one around so you decide to answer it. On the other end is a desperate sounding man calling his father warning him that there’s no going back, it’s happening, the…
Love in the end of times. I can’t think of a better movie tuned pitch perfect to my tastes than Miracle Mile.
Perfect.
Probably my favorite love story?
Because this film is about nuclear paranoia and every review makes reference to current events, let's start with this: the DPRK has a no first-strike policy, so if we end up in nuclear war because of any international situation with them, it's because we struck first. Which is how it usually goes down with the United States--every conflict we've been in since WWII has been because of our instigation of conflict. If you don't want to die in nuclear fire, get out in the streets and protest. Make your voice heard. The United States needs to keep their fucking hands off the DPRK.
As to the content of this film: My friend John remarked that it was a shame Anthony…
as someone who went on a really great date right before everything went to shit...damn.
and we'll be together, won't we?
(ambiguous spoiler alert) Testament to how invested in the characters I was that the ending kind of pissed me off.
There's nothing else quite like this. It's a real diamond.
Jesus FUCKING Christ. Feel like I'm about to have a panic attack. Maybe I shouldn't have watched this?
The pure insanity, and anxiety, coming from the inevitably of total annihilation, and the pure ecstasy and reason to live, that comes from love. AKA, the two topics typically occupying my brain.
Belongs brilliantly in the sub-genre of real-time night flicks, where tensions continuously mount. I found myself early on questioning how they'd sustain this idea, and boy did they show me.
Sure it's pretty 80s, and has some not perfect elements, but I randomly burst into tears three times, and you cannot pretend that isn't powerful film-making. Plus shit really does go absolutely bonkers at a point and it's pulled off…
I've always believed and I'm of the idea that the films that have a rating given by the same users between 3.5 to 3.9 herein Letterboxd always become at least for me the most underrated and that deserve more attention from the public and Miracle Mile is a clear example of this.
The nuclear holocaust, as well as post-apocalyptic and catastrophist stories of various kinds, have been portrayed in dozens of films over time, with better or worse luck, from the mythical Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, through the endearing When the Wind Blows, to the tragic Black Rain but few films have portrayed it with as much magic and sensitivity as…
