Empty spaces and rocks, the rugged cliff and the churning sea. Solitary islands with nothing but shark infested waters between them, smooth as oil. People. Love as a tie, a red ribbon that crosses an empty square. Love as meaning, love as hope, to love and to bind. The ghost story. To exist in two places at once, one of them being everywhere and the other being nowhere. Mistakes as monuments. The sound of two bells ringing across an empty plaza. Communication breakdown. Regret is like death, and all life is a dream.
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In a Lonely Place 1950
The heights that classical Hollywood attains in its most perfect pictures is bewitching, these films cast spells; and watching them in another century only heightens the ethereal quality that drips from each frame. In a Lonely Place is a real downer, the perfect noir heartbreak romance of starcrossed lovers lost.
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele is lit masterfully, his tortured soul bared across his face in quiet desperation, his glinting eyes, cynical, a fire burning him up from the inside…
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Possession 1981
Marriage Story but directed by HP Lovecraft.
I watched this at 5am stricken with insomnia whilst eating leftover pizza and I don't think I'll ever recover. I will not elaborate any further.
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Wild Strawberries 1957
A journey through the past.
Bittersweet lamentations of things done and things left undone; mistakes and misinterpretations that sit side by side like those passengers together with fleeting moments long ago where things really did make sense; when you knew you were alive and you were glad to be alive, and now the faces of the ones you knew or thought you knew pass you by like the trees at the side of the road.Possibly Bergmans most achingly tender…
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