blue velvet that's what I was thinking. dreamy spotlights on white dress singing onstage...lighting up cigarettes in dark...heartbreak mood sounds
he was in the military and he benches but keeps losing to scrawny bullies?
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023
The film creates its own language--of images, sounds, words--that one learns while watching, which repeatedly gives one flashes of understanding, momentary glimpses of the whole, the logic and mystery of it. "Evil does not exist" stands as an opaque, unassertive claim until one succeeds in acquiring this insight for oneself, much like the notion of kensho, instantaneous perception of the nature of things. Takumi is "forgetful" because he has become like an imperturbable force of nature but has forgotten the…
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Roma 1972
Alice Rohrmacher somewhere mentioned Roma's fading underground ancient murals as the visual predecessor to the spoiling of La Chimera's "Etruscan goddess" tomb by the tombaroli... One witnesses a memory of an image excavated, or a defaced image, like the statue whose back is turned to us in Roma and who is found again in La Chimera but just as soon beheaded as revealed. For the Englishman that head was an untouchable secret and had to be returned to the depths.…
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La Chimera 2023
Last night in a dream I looked at myself and thought it was real and this obscurity was overshadowed by the word mystery. The graverobber is "sick" with the myth of Orpheus, reality capsizing in mirrors "here" and here and here, irresistible hints of death and the goddess, "in love" with what the eyes cannot see. Mercifully the film cannot make him servant to the real but he is led back to the memory or indicator of the dream, of the lost thing. It felt as though...
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