Too often, Majewski abandons them entirely to go off onto strange tangents that range from Tauros catapulting a luxury car over a cliff vis some dubious effects work, to the scenes in which Keir Dullea turns up as the rich man’s spectral butler. The various plot threads involving the rich man, the tormented writer, and the Navajos are largely inscrutable and they do not so much weave together towards the end as much as they clumsily crash into each other. The narrative, which unfolds via a prologue and ten separate chapter headings, is, to put it charitably, a mess. It feels as though writer/director Lech Majewski had a marathon of the films of Terrence Malick and the recent works of Wim Wenders and decided to try to make something that would combine the two, minus the lucid plotting.
Eventually, John turns up at Tauros’ super-lavish estate in order to write the man’s biography but discovers things that are peculiar, even by the standards of a character played by John Malkovich.īy most critical standards, “Valley of the Gods” is a film that starts off as being fairly berserk and quickly becomes frothing mad. Anyway, he's in the midst of closing a deal to acquire the mineral rights to the Valley of the Gods in order to mine for uranium, a move that divides the Navajos still living there between those who want the money that they will receive as part of the deal and those upset that the development of the land will desecrate what they consider to be holy ground.
He is played by John Malkovich, who is not exactly the first person one might think of to play a mute. This eventually introduces us to Wes Tauros, the richest man in the world, and rumored to have gone mute following a personal tragedy. Having accomplished those feats, John has now decided to write the novel that he has always dreamed of penning and while I cannot be 100% sure, it is implied that most of the rest of the film is a visualization of what he is creating. His therapist ( John Rhys-Davies) suggests that the best way for John to cut through all the absurdity that he sees in the world is to beat it at its own game by doing things that are even crazier-climbing up a mountain face while dragging all of his pots and pans with him or walking the streets both backwards and blindfolded. In due time, we learn that he is John Ecas, an advertising copywriter whose life has collapsed since his wife ( Jaime Ray Newman) left him, evidently for her hang gliding instructor.
The man pulls a desk out of the back of his car and begins writing, in longhand, of course. As the film opens, a man ( Josh Hartnett) arrives at the Valley of the Gods, an area of southeastern Utah near Monument Valley where the spirits of Navajo Indian deities are said to reside within the enormous stones on display.
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