Sorry haven't gotten back with you. Been tied up all week - mother arrived on Sunday and left early Thursday morning, plus new job started. (It was a good kind of tied up, I enjoyed spending time with Mom after work each day, and am enjoying work so far - more or less, hoping this continues.)
It crossed my mind yesterday that my perceptions may be coloured too much by the manguel book. Frex I am equating this story with the Revenge sessay and also the nameless with an everyman type of character and more discretely the many nameless victims in power struggles, and the different responses to that.
Ah. But, it occurs to me that all our perceptions colored by what we are reading or thinking or personally going through at the moment.I can't help but wonder how I would have viewed BTVS S6 if I hadn't had my world turned upside down at the same time. Or for that matter how I'd view Hero if I hadn't the experiences I've had? I'm not sure we can ever see anything with virgin eyes - at least not after the age of 1.
Would you have any interest in that chapter? Let me now and I'll send it. But in particualr mangual speaks to the absence of these people and the effect that had after. And I was remnided of the scene at the end of the shape defined by the arrows.
Yes, I'd like to see it. That scene at the end continues to haunt me - use of empty or negative space. Have you ever done that drawing exercise where you draw everything but the object - defining the negative space it occupies? Whedon used the concept in The Body, with Dawn's drawing class, and here we see it again with the arrows - in both cases representing death or loss.
The other thing I am musing this morning is the role of the female characters in the movie and wondering if that's indicative of the director's work, and what else he has done. I should Google later
Having seen Raise The Red Lantern - it is in a way. Women tend to be quietly forceful in his work, yet do not have the power to quite effect change. The best they can do, is make a dent. Yet, in a way...that's what the nameless one does make a dent. Odd.
What are the negative reactions?
I think cjlasky mentions his below. Haven't gotten a chance to read it yet. I know he mentioned it in an earlier review. As did oceyeter. Hate to put words into their mouths. ;-)
I know several offline friends didn't like Crouching Tiger either, possibly for the same reasons people may not like this film - and that is due to the style of the film - or wiux pian (sp?) martial art dance which is popular in China. Some people just don't like that. I happen to adore it, find it absolutely breathtaking and it moves me every time I see it. While most of the violent scenes in Kill Bill Vol 1? Made me cringe or just become bored. Sort of a case of one person preferring an orange to a grapefruit and vice versa, I guess.
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Re: Fiction is all discovery..*
Date: 2004-09-16 04:12 pm (UTC)It crossed my mind yesterday that my perceptions may be coloured too much by the manguel book. Frex I am equating this story with the Revenge sessay and also the nameless with an everyman type of character and more discretely the many nameless victims in power struggles, and the different responses to that.
Ah. But, it occurs to me that all our perceptions colored by what we are reading or thinking or personally going through at the moment.I can't help but wonder how I would have viewed BTVS S6 if I hadn't had my world turned upside down at the same time. Or for that matter how I'd view Hero if I hadn't the experiences I've had? I'm not sure we can ever see anything with virgin eyes - at least not after the age of 1.
Would you have any interest in that chapter? Let me now and I'll send it. But in particualr mangual speaks to the absence of these people and the effect that had after. And I was remnided of the scene at the end of the shape defined by the arrows.
Yes, I'd like to see it. That scene at the end continues to haunt me - use of empty or negative space. Have you ever done that drawing exercise where you draw everything but the object - defining the negative space it occupies? Whedon used the concept in The Body, with Dawn's drawing class, and here we see it again with the arrows - in both cases representing death or loss.
The other thing I am musing this morning is the role of the female characters in the movie and wondering if that's indicative of the director's work, and what else he has done. I should Google later
Having seen Raise The Red Lantern - it is in a way. Women tend to be quietly forceful in his work, yet do not have the power to quite effect change. The best they can do, is make a dent. Yet, in a way...that's what the nameless one does make a dent. Odd.
What are the negative reactions?
I think cjlasky mentions his below. Haven't gotten a chance to read it yet. I know he mentioned it in an earlier review. As did oceyeter. Hate to put words into their mouths. ;-)
I know several offline friends didn't like Crouching Tiger either, possibly for the same reasons people may not like this film - and that is due to the style of the film - or wiux pian (sp?) martial art dance which is popular in China. Some people just don't like that.
I happen to adore it, find it absolutely breathtaking and it moves me every time I see it. While most of the violent scenes in Kill Bill Vol 1? Made me cringe or just become bored. Sort of a case of one person preferring an orange to a grapefruit and vice versa, I guess.