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(More customer reviews)I've actually seen a pre-press DVD package of this and all I have to say is it's great. The director, Scott King, designed the DVD packaging himself and it reflects the quirky and exceptional visual style of the film itself. It's really a cool thing to add to your DVD collection.
I would recommend this film to any film noir fanatics out there. The film is heavily influenced by classic '40s film noir. King shot the movie himself using a vintage Mitchell 35mm camera and the results are truly remarkable.
As for the story: it's a kind of psycho-sexual journey through the minds of two cryptographers during world war 2. Very original and definately entertaining. This is one of the coolest films I saw at the 1999 Sundance festival. I'm glad to see something like this get on DVD.
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The closing days of WWII. Treasure Island is a secret naval institution in San Francisco where intelligence experts censor all mail--seeking out hidden messages coded into birthday cards and love letters. Two such cryptographers, Frank and Sam, concoct a plan to outfit a dead body with falsified letters, to be dumped into the ocean as a wartime decoy--his letters containing coded misinformation to mislead the enemy. This much, at least, is true. But in "Treasure Island," communication is a zero-sum game: for every truth revealed, some other knowledge is taken away. The more one knows, the less one understands. All Day Entertainment is proud to present this critically-lauded, audacious motion picture in this deluxe special edition DVD, prepared by filmmaker Scott King himself.1999 Winner of the Sundance Jury prize!
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