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Jan. 30th, 2008 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dubdobdeewarning not really a review: ok so (A) the present is not in such a healthy state and we may well soon by boiling one another's bones in bonfires of busted ipods, and (B) i was a happy little kid in the never-had-it-so-good era and (C) actually a functioning voting adult in a bit of the past a lot of you lot consider ANCIENT HISTORY PLUS (with punk rock and everything)
but even with a bit of natural aging-bones loyalty to then over now, when i watch films which put themselves thru the grinder to catch the feel and texture of times gone by -- the hang of the clothes, the look of the walls -- i really really REALLY REALLY warm to the fact that i live now rather than then
ok so ang lee's film is contemporary with -- kinda sorta features offstage as historical setting-- the RAPE OF NANKING among other non-jolly events, and life under the fascist heel etc was never going to be a picnic, but i guess what i'm getting at (decadently enuff) is more the texture of surfaces, as a reason to keep on keeping on --> todd haynes's far from heaven (on TV on monday) is set in a far less evidently pitiless era (50s america, as the still-unfinished thaw of interracial relations is just just just starting to glimmer) but still (and of course todd piles on the sirkian folds of lush repression cz that's his thing obv) oof i am glad i didn't live there and then
i am well aware this is a kind of optical illusion: so turn it into a QUESTION (and LJ meme even!): viz WHEN (based on a movie or a book or a comic or SAY WHAT) in history would you not have minded living or even maybe ENJOYED IT
but even with a bit of natural aging-bones loyalty to then over now, when i watch films which put themselves thru the grinder to catch the feel and texture of times gone by -- the hang of the clothes, the look of the walls -- i really really REALLY REALLY warm to the fact that i live now rather than then
ok so ang lee's film is contemporary with -- kinda sorta features offstage as historical setting-- the RAPE OF NANKING among other non-jolly events, and life under the fascist heel etc was never going to be a picnic, but i guess what i'm getting at (decadently enuff) is more the texture of surfaces, as a reason to keep on keeping on --> todd haynes's far from heaven (on TV on monday) is set in a far less evidently pitiless era (50s america, as the still-unfinished thaw of interracial relations is just just just starting to glimmer) but still (and of course todd piles on the sirkian folds of lush repression cz that's his thing obv) oof i am glad i didn't live there and then
i am well aware this is a kind of optical illusion: so turn it into a QUESTION (and LJ meme even!): viz WHEN (based on a movie or a book or a comic or SAY WHAT) in history would you not have minded living or even maybe ENJOYED IT
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Date: 2008-01-30 09:24 pm (UTC)The ultimate example comes the zone in Tarkovsky's "Stalker". This was a nuclear contaminated site wasn't it? But it looks great to walk around/play in/relax. That with a library somewhere wouldn't be bad.