Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2013, at 2:07:10
In reply to Re: Lincoln » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 23, 2013, at 22:24:04
It made me slightly uneasy, too. I think one was supposed to feel slightly uneasy about it all. I haven't seen Titus Andronicus - only read it. I thought it was a comedy. Like braindead. The idea was that the viewer would habituate the the stylized violence and come to find it funny. Tarantino doesn't quite cross to the 'funny' side of the habituation... But he doesn't something unreal with it. Comic book. Since Sin City. There is something stylized and comic book about the violence that makes it okay / unreal for me.
Lincoln had a lot of 'picture' moments, too. Seems to be all the rage in film these days. A lot of it is picture perfect. Heavily composed. I'm sure there is a technical way of describing this... I don't know how. I found Lincoln to be... Disturbing. I don't know... Perhaps it is just because I'm sick at the moment....
When I was a kid I had a book about Lincoln... There was a whole series... One of my friends had more books in the series... Wonderful books... There was one about rabies and you got to travel as the virus through the persons body (I think vaguely from memory)... I wish I read more of them... But I'll always remember Lincoln and the log cabin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValueTales
damn... I'd love to get hold of them and read them now...
damn... in some respects my mother really was quite wonderful to me...
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