The audio in this movie is so thoughtful, the only music we hear is from music that is actually happening in the story. The women singing, the piano, the symphony all were some of the most powerful pieces of music I have seen in a film.
Each shot belongs in this film too; every once in a while there are pieces of art that exceed my wildest imaginations of how good something can be, this is one of them.
trust me ā they say like 5 words the whole time but the cinematography is breathtaking and I ugly cry every time
Sep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024
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trust me ā they say like 5 words the whole time but the cinematography is breathtaking and I ugly cry every time
Sep 19, 2024
what the hell did they put in this movie?
I need it desperately.
I need it like an everything bagel with veggie cream cheese on a Sunday morning.
I need it like water in my lungs.
I need it like I need Age of Consent to play directly following Love Will Tear Us Apart on the dance floor.
I need it like two beers to overcome my social anxiety.
I need it like the woman I met at that house party last week to text back so we can go out and dance and talk about books again because I long to hear her opinion on literally anything.
Safe to say, I need this movie bad.
A day on this earth doesnāt pass where I donāt think about this piece of film. The longing. The tension. The colors. The music. The sea. It has it all.
I need to be at the sea. You know how they used to send women to the sea for treatment for āhysteriaā, like in The Bell Jar or Ammonite or this film. I need that but less in the patriarchal and misogynistic way, but more in like a āI really need to just be close to a body of water for a prolonged period of time and ponder thingsā.
Every time I see the number 28 I think of this film. Every time I look at a classical painting. Every time I hear a French word spoken I am convinced I need to acquire the language so I can grasp this in its true essence.
My therapist told me that I am centered around longing, this has always been true, this movie has only amplified that.
The lovers path or the poets path which shall I take?
I donāt fucking know as long as I can experience a connection half as deep as this.
Go watch this movie.
Aug 2, 2024
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I had this movie on a list forever because Iāve seen it mentioned as one of the best ever made. I turned it on while I was eating dinner one night, figuring I wouldnāt be interested but at least Iād give it a shot.
Turns out, it really is one of the best ever made, in my opinion! I never thought I could get so into a silent movie, or that it could be so emotionally moving.
And I never miss a chance to recommend it!
Jan 14, 2025
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There's a thing that I notice at art museums sometimes. Someone wearing a slightly annoyed expression will be speeding through the exhibit like they are going down a long to do list. Or I'll be playing a board game with a group and there will be some guy with a strained face looking like they'd rather be anywhere else. Maybe another time we're leaving a movie and they start to complain about how it 'wasn't realistic', you get the picture.
I swear to God it makes me want to pulpify their face.
I'm not saying that you need to like every piece of art or that you should feel bad for not liking a movie, but, goddamn, at least give it a fucking second. Closing yourself off to The New, being automatically opposed to earnestness when it appears, is one of the most damaging defense mechanisms I can think of. It is, in turn, also one of the best ways to maximize your misery.
The defense mechanism that is cynicism, turns its users into parasites of the Social; they are sold the idea (a lie) that damaging and denigrating <<something>> allows one to become independent of its power structure. On the contrary, just as a leech is the most dependent on its host, cynics are those that are most dependent on the power structures in our culture.Ā
I really want to emphasize the difference between criticism and cynicism, because I am in no way saying that we should not criticize bad or damaging art, but to successfully criticize something means to first buy in, to really allow yourself to be taken by a piece, to examine it as it comes. Buying in as a term (even one so bathed in capitalist sebum) is the right one in this case because to buy in requires one to make a sacrifice. You cannot experience art without opening yourself to the possibility that it will do damage to you. To fully allow yourself to be moved by a piece of art is to allow yourself to be cut.Ā
But inside that cut is what it means to be human.
I think the single best way to combat cynicism is an unceasing curiosity of the world and the people in it. The normal and common of this world is absolutely fantasmatic if you take a moment to examine it; we see the world through have fluid filled orbs made of meat for fucks sake. The fact that there is anything at all, the fact that you and I exist for even a second is an absolutely unbelievable mind fuck, and to be unimpressed by any and everything doesnāt make you special or better than anyone, it just leaves you on a road to the pit of despair and leaves me really bummed out for the rest of the night.
Sep 20, 2024
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When I return to the places I lived
There is a sink that tends to be soul felt
Its just a wall, a room, paper, some wood
I want to tear down paint, paper, to studs
Even the studs, could be shredded - exposed
There is nothing below but more sameness
My bones are just, eyes and heart are, objects
During disect-tations, we did the same
We ripped until organs were mixed pieces
We cut brazen looking for what? something
An eye, beautāful, wet soft, there is neāre more
Looking for the subject in the object
Looking for the pain, love, a house no home
To be studs, paint, paper, instead of I amĀ
A thing, āstead of The Thing rips me apart
I am I am I am I am I am
Please don't pull me from this body of mine
It fails and falls, but it is all, all all.
Sep 27, 2024
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In truth people really don't give a shit as long as you are chill.
Sep 19, 2024