10/30/2023 0 Comments Download the dark eye edgar allan poeIt concentrates on developing the whodunit, favouring loose Poe-esque tropes over overt clichés (though at one point a raven inevitably appears, croaking ominously).Ĭhristian Bale as Augustus Landor Harry Melling as Cadet Edgar Allen Poe. Bringing Poe to lifeįor the most part Netflix’s film sticks carefully to this brief. The Pale Blue Eye’s themes indeed crop up repeatedly in Poe’s work: occult ritual and cryptograms, the border between sanity and insanity, the image of the beautiful dead woman – which Poe notoriously described as “the most poetical topic in the world”. Poe’s dishonourable time at West Point could lend itself to a more conventional biopic, but this would have missed what writer and director Scott Cooper is really interested in: “the themes that ultimately influence this young unformed writer to become the writer that he became”. Unwilling to continue his military career, he made sure he was court-martialed by neglecting his duty and disobeying orders then ensured dismissal was the only outcome by pleading not guilty. ![]() We know, for example, what really happened when Poe was at West Point in 1830.
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