Right At Your Door


Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "Guardian"


Xan Brooks
Friday September 8, 2006
The Guardian

Right At Your Door is a film of its time; a true-life horror yarn that opts to play America's post-9/11 anxieties as a kind of B-movie zombie thriller. When a trio of dirty bombs erupt in downtown LA, terrified Brad (Rory Cochrane) seals his home with duct tape and refuses to let his executive wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) across the hearth. Contaminated by the blasts, she slaps wildly at the window. Brad pulls a sympathetic face before swiftly retreating to the shower.

At times Chris Gorak's debut feature can be a wayward, compromised beast. I was never entirely sure whether this was satirising the scaremongers or pandering to their paranoia (a little of both, I think, and often both at the same time). But the film still stands as a tense and effective morality tale; a vivid portrait of a town in crisis.
It also wrings the maximum mileage from a meagre budget. "There's thousands of people down at the hospital," wails Lexi, but Gorak never actually shows them. Instead, the action focuses on a dwindling supply of bottled water and a suburban garden wreathed in white ash. The authorities, meanwhile, are represented by a handful of visiting goons and a disembodied voice spouting misinformation on the radio. And perhaps that is all it ever would be. Gorak was still editing the picture when Hurricane Katrina breached the levees and caught the relief agencies napping.
As a result his portrait of stranded citizens and an absent, unreliable government now has a resonance he could never have imagined.

breach- zrywać, naruszać
contaminated- skażony, zanieczyszczony
disembodied- bezcielesny
duct tape- mocna taśma
dwindling- malejący, kurczący się
goon- cymbał, półgłówek
hearth- ognisko domowe
levee- wał przeciwpowodziowy
meagre- skąpy, skromny
meanwhile- tymczasem
mileage- pożytek (pot.)
misinformation- mylne informacje
nap- drzemać
opt- woleć
pander- ulegać, zaspokajać
retreat- wycofywać się
scaremonger- panikarz
seal- zaklejać
slap- walić, grzmocić
spout- wyrzucać z siebie, wygłaszać
swiftly- żwawo, prędko
wail- zawodzić, jęczeć
wayward- kapryśny, krnąbrny
wreath- tu: kłąb (pyłu, kurzu), pokrywać pyłem, kurzem
wring- wyciskać
yarn- opowieść, historyjka


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