nyk
11-19-2006, 07:23 PM
I checked out the following film 2 nights ago.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007N1JC8.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4726/primernx4.jpg
My partner said today that this film remains 'mildly haunting' to her. I
concur. It is not so much the story itself (which is a time loop drama),
but the overall effect of the looping and its relationship to something
that is occurring within each of us in this strange eternal 'now' that
appears to have a past and a future and a life of some kind. It has
been effectively pointed out to me by certain writers that we do not
actual perceive the external world, but perceive our own internal
reactions and memories of reactions internally. As we grow older
much of our perception is structured from memory and we tend
to use sensory perception in a kind of shorthand fashion. Direct
perception becomes practically impossible. We live via psycholog-
ical structures. That is a sort of internal time loop into the past
that we have constantly spinning. The next day after this film
I began to feel like my life is just like that film. Interesting. Also,
mildly disturbing.
Note: Be sure to turn on the English sub-titles while watching or
you will miss much of the dialogue. This film is confusing as it is.
I think it is good that it is that way though. It has an effect that
transcends the medium. Shot for $7000 on 16mm. Well, transcends
movies shot for several thousand times that amount as far as I
am concerned.
There is this childishly simple ploy/play the film does with an A to B
equation....the loop thing I mentioned. The wheel thing of the Buddhists
perhaps, if you look at it from a certain angle.
Give it a try if you got nothing better to do some night.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007N1JC8.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4726/primernx4.jpg
My partner said today that this film remains 'mildly haunting' to her. I
concur. It is not so much the story itself (which is a time loop drama),
but the overall effect of the looping and its relationship to something
that is occurring within each of us in this strange eternal 'now' that
appears to have a past and a future and a life of some kind. It has
been effectively pointed out to me by certain writers that we do not
actual perceive the external world, but perceive our own internal
reactions and memories of reactions internally. As we grow older
much of our perception is structured from memory and we tend
to use sensory perception in a kind of shorthand fashion. Direct
perception becomes practically impossible. We live via psycholog-
ical structures. That is a sort of internal time loop into the past
that we have constantly spinning. The next day after this film
I began to feel like my life is just like that film. Interesting. Also,
mildly disturbing.
Note: Be sure to turn on the English sub-titles while watching or
you will miss much of the dialogue. This film is confusing as it is.
I think it is good that it is that way though. It has an effect that
transcends the medium. Shot for $7000 on 16mm. Well, transcends
movies shot for several thousand times that amount as far as I
am concerned.
There is this childishly simple ploy/play the film does with an A to B
equation....the loop thing I mentioned. The wheel thing of the Buddhists
perhaps, if you look at it from a certain angle.
Give it a try if you got nothing better to do some night.