The level of cinematic kabbalah the documentary highlighted did make me think a lot about the lengths people will go to in order to find symbols and meaning and patterns in something.
From a critical standpoint, you'd just say that
The Shining
like Shakespeare, or "The Wasteland" or
Gravity's Rainbow
is a rich text. It supports multiple meanings because it's very dense and allusive, detailed and layered.
Certainly it's an aspect of the pattern-seeing aspect of the human brain. But it's also what makes art artful.
RIP Jesús Franco: [link]
Hec,
I kind of see what you mean, but for 80-90% of the movie (except for the person who discussed Kubric's directorial choices and the set), I felt like what the movie did was inspire people to write fiction. This is not a bad thing, but nearly all of their interpretations had very little foundation in the movie.
That is why I felt the movie lacked value. This is the kind of thing you hear on a bad blind date or sitting next to the wrong person on a plane. Sure we all can see things and have creative interpretations of anything, but I'm not sure a movie needs to be made out of it.
RIP Roger Ebert.
Man, sometimes I completely disagreed with him, and sometimes I completely agreed with him, but I always loved his reviews. Film criticism has lost a major voice.
Oh wow, PC. I saw an article a day or two ago that his cancer was back...but man, that was fast. RIP indeed.
My sister IM'ed me about it and I thought she must have misread one of the articles about his cancer/leave of absence. Wow.
End of an era.
That's what I thought, too, Suzi. So sad. But he battled it for a long time.
Also, what Jessica said.
My sister IM'ed me about it and I thought she must have misread one of the articles about his cancer/leave of absence. Wow.
Yeah, I saw the first RIP post on Facebook and was like what are you talking about, and then I saw the articles from yesterday, and then she quoted me the Tweet, and dammit.
Wow, that was fast! Except for how he's been fighting cancer for a long time. But I saw a post from him on my RSS feed just a couple of days ago...
It's sad, but I'm glad it was fast and he didn't have time to dwell on being unable to write.
