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posted April 26, 2010 09:08 PM
 
Interesting. I don't have the patience or interest right now to read the whole thing, but i read and skimmed a bunch. I was reading Huxley's "Heaven and Hell" and he writes about how gemstones, self-illuminated fruit, and colored glass figure prominently in a lot of visionary experiences. Maybe that says something about why the rainbow Christmas lights and trees would be effective in mind-control. The whole film (Eyes) is about repression and how we can turn away from something and pretend it doesnt exist. Also, how this can manifest in perverse circumstances. Kidman's character gets a sadistic thrill telling her story, but it's a Dionysian intoxication that revels in the exodus from a repressive authority. The film ends when the couple agree to forget the whole thing and f*ck. Nothing is accomplished. The veil is lifted, the sight is more than Bill can bare, the veil is replaced. The end. Also, at some point his friend's wife confesses her love for him (and it appears more sincere and passionate and pure than anything his wife still feels for him) but he acts as if nothing has been confessed. He sweeps it under the veil, and helps her to fix the veil in place -- as much as it can be -- before leaving her there, devastated. Bill has an opportunity to sleep with a gorgeous and charming young prostitute, but passes that up, again, out of some misplaced sense of propriety, and loyalty to his sadistic wife. He says almost nothing when he realizes the costume shop owner is pimping his daughter. Everything is too messy, so he leaves it alone, and learns how to live in an apathetic, complicitous, hedonistic haze. At the end, they're following the kid around F.A.O. Schwartz, I think; the big toy store in New York. Getting ready to make a big purchase. Happy to be safe in their twisted little bubble of denial, they resolve to forget everything and f*ck as soon as they get home. It's a very scary movie.IP: Logged |
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posted April 27, 2010 04:20 AM
