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UNTIL THE END : Gus Van Sant's 'Last Days' [6/10] |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
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........................ Don't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die. - K.C.
... ellipsis ... a crystalline implosion ... [mumble mumble mumble] ... verdict of 'death by misadventure' ... Kittens in kitchen ... several unlikely moments of slapstick ... repetitions ... drug-hazed ... [mumble mumble mumble] ... doomed neo-Blakean 'Blake' (Michael Pitt) ... anomie ... time loops ... K.Gordon, A.Argento, L.Haas, H.Korine, R.Jay star cameos (pointless?) ... Gus's pals? ... [mumble mumble mumble]
..................... Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Repetitions ... [mumble mumble mumble] ... On Bended Knee (Boyz II Men) ... inaUdible ... Clean ... (dirty) ... documentary incursions: real Yellow Pages ad salesman ... real Mormon brothers (as one talks, the other's lips move) ... [mumble mumble mumble] ... slurRed speech ... escape to the surrounding woods (Garrison, NY) ... beatific suicide chic? call it a poor man's Process ...
.................................................. Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.
kiTchen ... repetitions ... Garboesque rock-star wants 2B alone ... Cold mansion, breath vapOur visible in the air ... [mumble mumble mumble] ... Gerry, Elephant ... longueurs ... epiphanies ... "#... on Bended knee ...#" (SympAthy for the Devil) ... several unlikely moments of slapstick ... (they even manage to drop a corpse) ... 'Although inspired In part... work of fictioN ... In Memory Of ... 1967-1994', etc ... [mumble mumble mumble]
It doesn't mean if you believe in nothing that it's nothing. You have to treat nothing as if it were something. - A.W.
Neil Young 20th/25th September, 2005
LAST DAYS : [6/10] : USA 2005 : Gus VAN SANT : 97 mins seen at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle (UK), 20th September 2005 - public show |