The Death of Poe
The Death of Poe. Dir. Redfield, Mark. Prod. Redfield Mark. Perf. Redfield, Mark, Tony Tsendeas, and Kimberly Hannold. Alpha New Cinema/Redfield Arts, 2006. Film.
This film focuses on the death and the time leading up to the death of Poe.
The author's history flies across the screen along with the movie credits at the beginning. After this, we see Poe’s body being made ready for his burial and Rufus Griswald (also a character in this film) gives the infamous obituary. Poe wakes up in his coffin as he’s being buried. But then suddenly he wakes up before his death, during the mysterious days he disappeared.
Throughout the film he seems to be having flashbacks and flashforwards. Sometimes he flashes to when he was still with Virginia other times when he is in the hospital bed. He is talking to some guy on a boat but seems a bit out of it. He is has memory lapses. Poe is delusional the entire movie. You can see how people are reacting around him when he is discovered. We see it through Poe’s blurry eyes.
Most of the movie is in black and white, but what seems to be Poe's ghost comes out in color. So are the happy memories of Virginia including scenes of a sexual nature.