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Shane Carruth, Upstream Color (see below), was also the cinematographer. \u00a0Forgot that last night.<\/p>\n
In answering questions, in particular about the density of his works, he made two points, both interesting. \u00a0First, he said he makes a narrative as it needs to be to tell his story. \u00a0That means it may take \u00a0more than one pass to take in all \u00a0the narrative has to offer. \u00a0Just like reading a book or seeing a painting. \u00a0Made sense to me.<\/p>\n
(Barrias, French, 1893)<\/p>\n
Second, all narratives, he believes, are veiled, which he emphasized in answers to more than one question. \u00a0In this he means the viewer or reader never knows the whole story and often knows a very limited portion of it. \u00a0I took from his overall answers that this conviction comes from life, where the future veils the narrative in every instance and, too, I suppose, since we never know the interiority of the other, veiled in that sense as well.<\/p>\n
While I agree intellectually with this latter point, as an intention in a work of art, I’m suspicious. \u00a0It can too easily serve as an excuse for careless ambiguity and might enforce an aterminus approach to story telling; which, though it is true as Carruth said last night, that all film narratives must end (and by implication in that way deviate from the truly veiled nature of the narrative future) that departure from reality should not encourage pointless realism.<\/p>\n
There may be some of that in this film. \u00a0Until I’ve had longer to consider it, and until I’ve seen it at least a second time, I’ll reserve my opinion on that.<\/p>\n
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