I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.
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On the Silver Globe 1988
Sometimes we just have to accept that certain ideas, artistic works and intellectual actors exist beyond the realm of oneself, Zulawski and this creation live among that sentiment for me.
The scope for interpretation with On The Silver Globe feels so massive, yet the themes are so clear. At its core, we’re watching a film about the burgeoning of civilisations and the almost inherent need for humanity to define purpose and meaning across all facets of existence. This naturally manifests…
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
Beautifully abstract, tragic & melancholic.
The nature of this film leaves it so open to interpretation, and because of this, I found it’s impact on myself was particularly profound. It portrayed the idea of our existence in such an honest and uncompromising way that I found myself still trying to process it for days after my initial watch.
We all struggle with the reality of our own mortality, fear that time is slipping away through our cookie cutter routines, insecurity bred by…
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Eraserhead 1977
Not sure what I could say about this film that hasn’t already been said but I’ll try to write something worth reading.
Firstly, I want to start with the almost continuous, and at times overwhelming, backing track/sounds, that create such an eerie and vast feeling environment when watching, that partnered with the twisted surrealist visuals, honestly makes this one of the most tense and psychologically haunting films I’ve ever watched.
Eraserhead, in a nutshell, is an abstract, surrealist dream-like sequence…
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