Director tedgeoghegan conjures the ghosts of World War II in Brooklyn 45.
, is a chilling chamber piece set as the last echoes of World War II start to die away.So what about historical movies appeals to Geoghegan? Is it the cultural details? The set dressing?"I hate the present," he laughed."I really just want to make movies that are not set in the present – not just because it makes it easier to avoid cellphones, but because I'm not a fan of the world that we're currently living in.
In his story of five lifelong friends and war buddies caught up in a séance, Geoghegan was able to explore the fascination with the supernatural that was so common in the era – and to remind audiences that we are not that far removed from those superstitions. The spiritualism practiced in the film may have first exploded in 19th-century America, but it remained a powerful force throughout the 20th century.
Yet he also wanted to tackle the cultural misapprehension so common today that postwar America"was this saccharine, beautiful sort of thing. They think of the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square. They don't think how, end of 1945 and all the way through 1946, it was record-high suicides in the United States and most of the world, because you had all of these soldiers coming back from the war, and had no ability to fit back into society.
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