"This is the end of me" sets out on a true documentary mission - to delve into
this historical event - but gets continually sidetracked, following tangents
both relevant and irrelevant, both serious and humorous, involving the
filmmaker's own memories and experiences with trains, as well as ruminations
about what is left to us now of past events.
It is a look at the hierarchy of authority which is granted to the various forms of discourse about the past; from books to handwritten letters and journals, to oral storytelling and the shifting uncertainty of personal memory ... who do we believe? whose voice lasts? whose story is told?
In short, it's about history, technology, memory, chaos theory, eyesight, film, books, trains, speed, death and Saskatchewan.