no country for old wainds
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review of GotF now up at http://commentarytrack.com/
just saw haneke's 'caché', another really good pic although its sad hollowness only really hits when the credits roll, like antonioni but colder somehow. it's about a family terrorised by the anonymous sending of videotapes spying on their lives, and these tapes interchangeable with the icy camerawork are clear windows into the veiled recesses of the husband's consciousness. a clinical documentation of the way slippery slopes of skeletons can manifest both personally and (it hints) nationally, with moral pressures building whole identities out of evasion. it's also a complex statement about the voyeurism of cinema, the horror and vitality both illustrated with unnerving clarity. reminds me of that warning lyric, sometimes the building of bridges only makes the distance more noticable. nearly great.
just saw haneke's 'caché', another really good pic although its sad hollowness only really hits when the credits roll, like antonioni but colder somehow. it's about a family terrorised by the anonymous sending of videotapes spying on their lives, and these tapes interchangeable with the icy camerawork are clear windows into the veiled recesses of the husband's consciousness. a clinical documentation of the way slippery slopes of skeletons can manifest both personally and (it hints) nationally, with moral pressures building whole identities out of evasion. it's also a complex statement about the voyeurism of cinema, the horror and vitality both illustrated with unnerving clarity. reminds me of that warning lyric, sometimes the building of bridges only makes the distance more noticable. nearly great.
