![]() ![]() This merit of pursuit can have a great deal of nobility to it, along with the heavily destructive baggage its more obsessive qualities carry. Throughout The Lost City Of Z, the issues of societal class and institutional bureaucracy play a vital role in the dimension that paints a man like Percy Fawcett in his need to find a city even the Royal Geographical Society treats as either a myth or the exuberant fantasy of a dreamer whose slightly lower economic class determines the validity of their claims along with their desire to prove that the indigenous nature of these cultures goes beyond the binary glance a more aristocratic class labels as “Savages.” Aside from the rather closed-minded racism that painted a great deal of British Culture in the early 1900’s, The Lost City Of Z does a fantastic job of operating as a metaphor for the journey of an artist and the many elements that paint such a quest.Īlthough Percy Fawcett functions more as an explorer in the literal sense, his desire to journey and explore the Amazon is symbolic of the types of measures an artist of any accord, be they a writer, a painter, or a filmmaker will go to open doors that have yet to truly unravel new mysteries as well as new expressions of beauty when it comes to the sanctity of their craft. Now, as to whether he truly found the city, the film uses more ambiguity than what a traditional film narrative would actually go for, while still relying on a more incremental aspect to drive the main theme of imagination and all the boundary-breaking components it carries when embracing and embarking on the type of challenge that carries the same passions that drive innovators and artists to dare something worthy of ridicule as well as the self-reflective awareness that places much of the framework of that insult into a much more irrelevant position. ![]() Percy Fawcett believed and theorized that Zed was a complex ancient city home to a lost civilization of untold magnitude and cultural sophistication. For those unfamiliar with the Zed, legend has it (yeah that cliche) that there once existed an indigenous city in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. “Imagine.” That word is tossed around a lot in James Gray's biographical masterpiece, The Lost City Of Z as its historical protagonist Percy Fawcett ( Charlie Hunan) relies on his mere imagination as the driving force behind his desire to traverse the vast network of the Amazon and find what a mere discovery of advanced broken pottery led him to believe is proof of the Lost City Of Zed. ![]()
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