"Drawing Restraint 9"

polystyle

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Aaah Yes
Art & Film come together (come apart ?) in the new Barney & Bjork movie ...
So much to ... dislike in this tedious overlong what did the Village Voice call it ?
'Cremasturbatory'

Went to see it in part because some friends had gotten drafted
into manning the Japanese workers scenes and we wanted to see them,
but jeez this 'film' is hard on the er backside

There is some pretty good music to be had , cheers Mark Bell
but besides that tough going (like that leg meat sashimi in the movie)
There may not be much dissention on this one !
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
not so excited to see it anymore after the trailor - it looks like just another Cremaster... firmly stuck within Barney's circular, solipsistic, dead-end symbolic universe.

Cremaster cycle had some very powerful and poetic moments, not to mention some awesome compelling imagery which stays in one's mind like a strange bad dream... but stretched over 6 hours or more, they are overshadowed by the pomposity of these impenetrable fortresses of spectacle which do nothing other than aggrandize one lucky person's neurosis... and the whole thing grows tedius before too long.

ok, so the poor guy has some serious issues with masculinity and was probably raped by a Mormon priest in his childhood, and has fabricated this symetrical private universe of weird archetypes to deal with it, but for how long does it remain interesting for us? for how long can we stay fascinated with this kind of self referentiality that does not open up to the rest of the world, that does not connect with anything outside its own psycho-sexual bubble-sphere?

(to say these films have identifiable "universal" themes such as "change" or "fertility" or the "cyclical nature of life" is stretching it. everything anyone has ever made can be said to be about these things)
 
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