Monday, December 13, 2004
"I amuse you, but I bore you."
Closer. We couldn't tell if the older couple behind us was laughing or crying (honestly) but there was someone snickering to our right.
It was easy to see why, and very easy to not follow suit. A movie with distance: it was ascetic, in many ways, which contrasted unsettingly with the brutal subject. That, ultimately being the point, revisted time and again by the characters. All the talking, even all the actions: all the signifiers in the world have no guaranteed stake in any truth, and are but the most evanescent of bridges between the inner workings of two people.
or something like that.
Closer. We couldn't tell if the older couple behind us was laughing or crying (honestly) but there was someone snickering to our right.
It was easy to see why, and very easy to not follow suit. A movie with distance: it was ascetic, in many ways, which contrasted unsettingly with the brutal subject. That, ultimately being the point, revisted time and again by the characters. All the talking, even all the actions: all the signifiers in the world have no guaranteed stake in any truth, and are but the most evanescent of bridges between the inner workings of two people.
or something like that.
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