A Certain Kind of Death
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Unblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.... (Full plot summary below)

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Unblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.

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Cinema em Cena - 10/10 by Pablo VillaçaUm olhar detalhado e curioso sobre uma jornada burocrática e mórbida.
Offoffoff - 8/10 by Joshua TanzerIt's just like 'C.S.I.' only without the stars, without the glamour, without evil geniuses, cat-and-mouse games and chases. In short, without the 'C.'
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzA strange documentary that visits the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
User Review - 10/10 by Nancy KBrilliantly done -- so raw, so haunting. Fodder for excellent disussion. I was a little nervous about watching it, but it was definitely worth it.
User Review - 10/10 by Jeremy PAn amazing document. Reveals a whole parallel world. Absolutely riveting. A bit depressing, but it is comforting to know that the deceased depicted in the film are so well looked after once they pass to the other side.
User Review - 10/10 by angel mA certain Kind Of Death Begins with A African american man who is sitting on A toilet Dead.. no one knew he had been dead for 3 weeks untill the smell of death lingerd from his small little apartment.. They allso show a nude Homosexual male that died Form bleeding to death from his Anus.. another man must have fallen and died on the bathroom floor.. they show the mass graves how they dump thousands of unclaimed ashes in the ground.. its a sobering expirience to watch this I hope I have people who care and are their for me when my time comes .. ,
User Review - 10/10 by India Bi think everyone should watch this, it's thought-provoking, informative and well-done. i have a copy of it but have yet to force it on anyone... haha... but i keep trying to share it.... ;)
User Review - 8/10 by Kevin W"A Certain Kind of Death" works best when it lets the images do the talking, which unfortunately doesn't happen until the final third of the movie. That's not to say the rest of the film doesn't work, it's just not as good, in my opinion. This film is thought provoking and makes me appreciate my family a bit more.
User Review - 8/10 by Stacie FThis is a superb documentary, not interested in probing its subjects (indeed no documentarian or film crew member is ever heard from) but instead settles to observe. The people interviewed seem to be allowed a free forum for their thoughts, like the director told them, "just do what you would normally do and help us understand what your job requires you to do". "Faces of Death" can totally suck on it because this crew ALSO got LA county morgue access, and they got just as awesome footage as you guys did, cept it wasn't all heavy handed and laced with shock value like the FoD series. This is a film that shows what is - what a modern pauper's death and burial looks like, exactly. Not much sentimentality, just what we find out about the person from recovered legal forms or papers left in their houses. We first meet these people as decaying remains. The camera is not afraid of dead bodies, even extreme cases and bodies left to decay as long as most of these are usually much more severe to look at than other corpses. So there are many things here you may not want to see in our bubbled modern world, and that luxury is afforded to you because of the people who work for coroners and mortuaries. This movie shows us exactly what these jobs entail; the best example in the sequence in which bodies are prepared for cremation and then cremated. It's a beautiful naturalistic filming technique and the result is pure reality. This is what life, and death, are really like, and it may take a hell of a lot to watch this. But if you're a sick objective fuck like me, you're just going "those are some great shots of blood filled body bags" or "look at that...died on the shitter. Probably what'll happen to me. I better make some skydiving arrangements ASAP if I get bowel cancer instead of waiting around my shitty apartment and making mounds of 'gonna die' documents."
User Review - 8/10 by Oreste MGreat. Facts in no nonsense way of what happen to us when we become corpses and have nobody left to care for our decomposing flesh. A must.

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