Oh freedom, a beckoning vicious siren, let me be.
My new video " Business As Usual" deals with a thing a two re: above-mentioned dichotomy.
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More on topic of inner conflict: Today I read a spread in NYT on Jemima Khan, a socialite-come-intellectual, head of EU Vanity Fair outpost, and one of the majorly trending multi-tasking journalist-activists and philantroping creme-de-la-creme. It seems the lady in questions (albeit she rebukes to state it so simply) feels guilty about having baled out Assange, for having believed in him, producing a documentary on subject of the man and his pet project (wikileaks).
I followed the link in the article, leading me to the repenting self-cleansing and re-enstating essay JK wrote earlier in News Statesman, which opens with a massively libelous paragraph leading to the content with a preachy bend. However, that is the very thing that made it to be a compelling read -- for me anyway. Unfortunate as it is inevitable, the author falls for her own grandiosity in talking generally at the start of the article about a non-realted place she passed through on her way to Sundance -- LA, with brash strokes managing to roll as a tank over non-related by-standers she selects seemingly at random from a deck of cards -- George Clooney for example?.. It is an odd sort of launch into an essay on politics. But that is precisely what is so curious, when the facts are lacking or when faced with un-familiar -- the need to jump to conclusion, both positive and negative, about the others, this need stemming from inability to contain anxiety of staying in the moment of unknown, undecided, rushing to escape the fear of unfamiliar and foreign... [read art. in full here.] This anxiousness and line of action is reminiscent of fanatical political doctrines and religious cults -- the need to separate, to distinguish us and them.
"The problem with Camp Assange is that, in the words of George W Bush, it sees the world as being “with us or against us”... is accurately b&w just as she then says herself: "I suggested that he view it not in terms of being pro- or anti-him, but rather as a film that would be fair and would represent the truth."
Poor souls, we are unstoppable in trying to assign a singular meaning and sense of purpose to all of our individual meanderings... Fairness, where art thou. As we say in back in post-USSR region: "I wanted it to be better, but it turned out as usual."
"We all want a hero," -- she said.
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Being nostalgic for the 90's and my teenage years, I recently re-watched a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Noone wants to talk about that, it is such obviously well-loved and sartorially exhausted show, that by now it is sitting firmly filed under "classics of the avant-guard cinema/tv" and getting slightly taken for granted. The show is revered for the mystery, for the cast, for the quirkiness, darkness .. yes the darkness. David Lynch being the master of summoning the spirits of the abyss, in general is an odd paradox, with his dedicated broadcast on Transcendental Meditation etc. However, I must be making some headway -- as I now see it as the most obvious thing: the Lynch genius is not his edginess and innovation as a filmmaker and ability to create powerful imagery, it is his acceptance. Accepting and acknowledging without placing a judgement Twin Peaks is the conflict each of us carries, and through that the series were able to make the audience feel at one with the rest of the world -- removing the ultimate hero of Agent Cooper and turning him into anti- at the end. As Kate Bush's "Running from that hill" -- line goes: "There is so much hate for the ones we love", and that's all there is in the daily living.
Perhaps if each of us could use self-reflection long enough to manage the hate.. but this leads me to yet another film! -- with a tempting premise and indadvertedly reliably terrible Hollywood calibre plot and action results: the purge.
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Being nostalgic for the 90's and my teenage years, I recently re-watched a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Noone wants to talk about that, it is such obviously well-loved and sartorially exhausted show, that by now it is sitting firmly filed under "classics of the avant-guard cinema/tv" and getting slightly taken for granted. The show is revered for the mystery, for the cast, for the quirkiness, darkness .. yes the darkness. David Lynch being the master of summoning the spirits of the abyss, in general is an odd paradox, with his dedicated broadcast on Transcendental Meditation etc. However, I must be making some headway -- as I now see it as the most obvious thing: the Lynch genius is not his edginess and innovation as a filmmaker and ability to create powerful imagery, it is his acceptance. Accepting and acknowledging without placing a judgement Twin Peaks is the conflict each of us carries, and through that the series were able to make the audience feel at one with the rest of the world -- removing the ultimate hero of Agent Cooper and turning him into anti- at the end. As Kate Bush's "Running from that hill" -- line goes: "There is so much hate for the ones we love", and that's all there is in the daily living.
Perhaps if each of us could use self-reflection long enough to manage the hate.. but this leads me to yet another film! -- with a tempting premise and indadvertedly reliably terrible Hollywood calibre plot and action results: the purge.
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