tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post8975796311044666977..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: In the Tomb of That Darkened Room, We Both Sat Down to Playbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-76898209653822817292013-11-20T13:06:57.850-05:002013-11-20T13:06:57.850-05:00just read this and damn bill I love Ricky Jay and ...just read this and damn bill I love Ricky Jay and this post (well, the first half at least; I read the second half and it was good, too, but I share your views on MC with the exception being that I don't think I've ever actually exposed myself to any); that RJ clip was enthralling and hilarious! you made my day! you do great work and I guess I represent the teeming masses who read you but rarely if ever comment. this time I couldn't resist. thank you! William Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350831409306146297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-61176053640958126972013-11-08T09:49:18.196-05:002013-11-08T09:49:18.196-05:00nice post gannice post gantoko sepatu grosirhttp://www.tokosepatugrosir.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-50865752679413125542013-11-07T15:36:28.601-05:002013-11-07T15:36:28.601-05:00I met Bujalski after a screening of Computer Chess...I met Bujalski after a screening of Computer Chess a little while back, and the impression I got from the conversation and the preceding Q&A was he chose the camera based firstly on a sincere appreciation for the ghostly quality of some of the images it produces, and secondly on its unpredictability. Most of the points where the image skips, distorts, and otherwise spazzes out happened spontaneously. And for him--and also for me and I imagine most of the other people on the Computer Chess bandwagon--this linked up nicely with the structure and themes of the movie. Structurally, a situation, setting, and timeframe is established--tournament, hotel, one weekend--but within those neat parameters, all sorts of left-field oddness begins to manifest itself, just as the computers start to behave irrationally, just as the aesthetic of the movie (and it is very much a real aesthetic, thoughtfully chosen) becomes less and less stable as things progress. It all contributes to this escalating--comic, but also paranoid--sense that technology is developing its own will, separate from its creators' intentions. There are other parallels in there, too (clumsy technology--clumsy social interaction). Some the humor is derived from this binary opposition of people who can't express their emotions directly and people who are so in touch with their emotions as to seem ridiculous. That's really what the New Age stuff is about, not "stupid hippies, hardeehar." There's a degree of affection and admiration for them mixed in with the acknowledgement that yes, they do look absurd.<br /><br />Which nuances might be hard to appreciate if you think the movie simply looks like ass, but you gotta admit it's playing a more sophisticated game than l'oeuvre de Swanberg. (At least, much of l'oeuvre de Swanberg. He has improved lately, though not really in a way anybody with a strong m-core aversion could appreciate.)Jesse Furgursonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11231983434778906386noreply@blogger.com