Name: Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-09-09
Rating: 4

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

202349m4.0 (1)

Documentary

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us: upbringing, social status, education, labour, and familial bonds. The memoir weaves into the film as both a contemplation on mortality and an illustration of fading memory, reflecting on how we pen our pasts and how they can be re-told.