Argument clinic

2 Comments

• The Chevalier says:

  March 20, 2009 at 11:28 am

  Here’s your explan­a­tion. Which I under­stood after only about 15 minutes of watch­ing movie and was sub­sequently con­firmed to me by some­body close to the picture.
  There is no tem­por­al real­ity in the movie. None. No object­ive real­ity. All of the char­ac­ters and situ­ations are rep­res­ent­at­ives, sym­bols, of the thoughts and exper­i­ences of the cre­at­or, his self-centered view and his cre­at­ive pro­cess, hence: SYNECDOCHE.
  It’s like Eyes Wide Shut or Mulholland Drive, in that the nar­rat­ive is func­tion­al only in that it’s a series of scenes or moments one after anoth­er – yet it’s not really a nar­rat­ive in the true sense, because there’s no lit­er­al sense to it. It’s a series of com­piled images put togeth­er in a spe­cif­ic order to cre­ate an emo­tion­al reac­tion from the view­er, but these images don’t actu­ally fit togeth­er in any out­ward logic­al man­ner. You either go with it or you don’t.

• T. Holly says:

  March 30, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  Love how Kenny makes up words, like miser­ab­list and Warshovian, and how he mocks Kevin Buist at the end; he’s a man after my own pure heart.