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“Ideology by definition obfuscates antagonism.”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/1362006697867378692

love the film holiday with cary grant about communist spirit and how it is better to take some time off and hysterically search for truth than to be paranoid and moneyed. loved also this week the film mother and child with Annette Benning about loving your boss. also the film 'closely watched trains' about taking it slow in first love. and the film where Annette Benning and jeremy irons are the ideal married couple

A fan of a musician gets implicated in murder by the musician. She knows how to tell stories. This daydreamer fantasy aspect of her life helps her not get imprisoned and ultimately helps her traverse fanhood and the dark void of fantasm underneath it.

#andre vantino

Patricia Highsmith anchors her novels and stories in reality by listing a cloying number of details – clothes, physical appearance, food and wine, description of houses – the minutiae of life which carries the reader seamlessly over into the world of the uncanny. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his essay on the fantastic, describes such a technique as one of semiotic excess – ‘the innumerable signs that line the roads and that mean nothing’ – a method particularly suitable for describing, and critiquing, the modern world

Andrew Wilson on magic realism

#magic realism #sartre

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How nice that we don’t understand each other.

The Silence (1963) dir. by Ingmar Bergman (via alterities)

"i came to your Island because I wanted to meet the people who have no choice after climate change". Answer: "We have all the choice there is. We have to fight for keeping the things that we have"

comparisons of SCHINDLER'S LIST to Spielberg's other movies cannot he overlooked. Schindler does come off like a super-human Indiana Jones or the archaeologists in Jurassic Park. The Nazis can he compared to the dinosaurs running loose in JURASSIC PARK or to the shark in JAWS: nature that cannot be wholly controlled, but nature that can be explained as primitive. The Jews-the pitiful Jews showing fear - represent the child in us, like the Indian children rescued by Indiana Jones or the children scared by dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK. SCHINDLER'S LIST backs off from showing us starving concentration camp inmates who, if lucky to remain alive had to release their souls from their bodies in order to survive as emotionless robots. To have thought about the surrounding horrors would have killed one's will to live. To have reacted to the horrors would have called undue attention to oneself and more than likely have resulted in being shot on the spot. The audience's horror is mitigated because the faces shown mirror our own fear. How differently we would react if we were watching the concentration camp inmates remain impassive, expecting their treatment. We would be outraged that people can treat other people so senselessly, and we might face the painful truth that all of us have within ourselves the capacity to accept such treatment or be killed or even work in the camps in such a way that we partake in killing our own. SCHINDLER'S LIST puts a face on the Holocaust which makes it more comfortable for the audience.

My father is a Schindler Jew by Les White

#les white #schindler's list #oskar schindler #steven spielberg

If Schindler is an enigma, if his actions as he evolves from carpetbagger to savior cannot be explained - as many including Spielberg contend - why then does the film give reasons for the Nazis' behavior? The Nazis are portrayed as alcoholics, often partying and orgiastic (all Schindler has to do to gain another concession is present a bottle of wine). Anton Goeth usually kills when drunk. Because his status as antagonist serves to represent the Nazis as a whole, we are led to surmise that the Holocaust can he blamed on alcohol abuse. Perhaps the Holocaust would have never happened had Goeth and company accepted their addiction and gone to AA. (In contrast, Schindler has to goad the Jewish accountant into having a drink.) The movie reflects certain mores in today's United States: a popular acceptance of victimization and an AA philosophy of "powerlessness," with its presumption that alcoholism is one of the main causes of society's ills. The film depicts the Nazi movement as disorderly and confused, not highly organized: e.g., it does not execute genocide with cool efficiency. SCHINDLER'S LIST ascribes reasons to the Holocaust. Goeth seems to kill only those who are infirm, not willing to follow orders, or sitting down on the job: i.e., the one-armed man, the woman architect whining about faulty construction, the slow hinge maker, and the boy failing to scrub out a stain. These are reprehensible reasons to kill but reasons nonetheless. Even when Goeth takes a practice shot from his balcony, he kills a fat babushka taking a break and sitting down outside a line of hard workers. Yet my father is by accident the only survivor from his family. His mother and sister were shot, his father and youngest brother were gassed, and his other brother was hung indiscriminately.

My father is a Schindler Jew by Les White

Rohmer’s film shows how we overcome our shyness first towards people we don’t love so that we then are able to approach who we love.

- Andre Vantino on The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Rohmer’s film on Hulu is about a man’s impossible love and how she meets his wife. The most positive melancholy one can think of is such an impossible love of admiration from a distance. Before he met his wife, she seduced him, knowing that he was almost not seducable. She tricked him into her world, made him be close enough to lose his resistances.

- Andre Vantino on My Night at Maud’s

In the film Familienfest, a father learns to show his emotion and his love to his sons. One of his sons, played by Lars Eidinger, finally tells his family and father that he is terminally ill and his wish to die in his fathers house is surprisingly granted by the father. It is one of the rare cases of someone who is ready to die because he has made peace in the end.

AUF EINMAL (All of a Sudden) Trailer from Fabian Massah on Vimeo.

#vimeo

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