I went to see White Ribbon with Fifi last weekend. I must say it came across as a bit self important. The film’s crystal clear black and white cinematography loudly proclaimed its aspirations to profundity from the start, imploring a proper level of respectful hush from the audience. The director wanted to create an atmosphere, [...]
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Primitive Mythology and Fight Club
(From an old post on the Media Underground forum — which you can no longer read as all the old posts have been deleted) I’m part way through reading the second chapter of Primitive Mythology, The Imprints of Experience. And I came across a passage that immediately put me in mind of the discussion we [...]