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I fucking love Event Horizon. They're trying to restore the infamous lost footage atm, but I dunno that it really needs it.
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IdleRich
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I think we discussed it before. Classic. This is basically the same in that a salvage crew discover a legendary lost wreck and try to tow it in but instead get killed one by one by ghosts. And there is a kind of explanation sort of makes sense.
linebaugh
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I thought the dialogue and acting in the witch were awesome. Particularly the child actors- the exorcism scene shook me, that kid was portraying emotions you feel kids shouldn't have any idea about, and the use of an old John Winthrop decree as the dialogue was real slick.
I also think there's alot to be pulled from the lighthouse. The film set out to be a meaning maker of sorts, appropriately lent to a whole multiplicity of interpretations. You throw something at it and something gets tossed right back. Think the way it wielded myth brings about that effect
linebaugh
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Didnt know that. I imagine if Dwight from the American office was the lead that'd throw me too.
Id still give it a shot though.
I thought midsommar was brilliant even though I was watching a really dodgy cam copy and I sort of stopped watching the last half hour.
Yeah maybe I need to rewatch the lighthouse, I was watching on ipad and we had just watched a really good film before, the chantal akerman one
linebaugh
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I had the exact opposite feeling lol. So much god damn tension. And then right at the climax, right before the goat man comes, theres just a minute straight of dead silence, and your just sitting there in full awareness of how goddamn tense you are and you hold your breath because you too don,t want to make a sound, brilliant.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed The Lighthouse (which to me is the main thing)... I'm not sure it was as brainy as it thought. I mean there was a gay subtext but so what, the lighthouse is phallic so what, there were all these kinds of links to prometheus and other myths but... I'm not sure that just saying "I've read some classics" adds much to a film unless it links in to something and takes it further. Maybe it did and I missed it, but I saw the film as a lot of half-explored ideas that never quite landed... but also so what.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Ah you're making it sound good now. I forget the details. I didn't hate it but I wanted more.
linebaugh
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I think the gay subtext, which may be more appropriately called a masculinity subtext, was just the point of conjunction the movie used to demonstrate how cosmic/mythic hierarchies and real world/ economic, societal hierarchies are top down forces being informed by and reflexively forming bottom up forces of psychic structure to just really fuck up the subject...leave him awash in the waves maybe... Something something myth making and subject making are the same thing. I think the film is about belief more than anything.
linebaugh
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I was also really high both times I watched so I may have just been more malleable
IdleRich
IdleRich
I think there is a gay thing... also a father son thing.... also a straight-forward masculinity thing - I'm not sure one precludes the other.
linebaugh
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I guess I was just using masculinity to stand in for 'male concerns,' your right