Matinee What people scare themselves into believing does more damage than anything they can know for sure. --This statement feels applicable more broadly than the film, maybe/probably because when people scare themselves into believing something, the something is limited only by their imaginations, and people's imaginations seem to work especially well in the fear department.
while the film may observe the absurdity with which they have been conditioned to react to the prospect, it does not encourage us to condescend to them because of it. --It sounds really good.
The Hands of Orlac
I got pretty spooked just reading your description; I can imagine being well and truly unnerved trying to watch it.
The idea that malice of the acts lives in the parts of the body that committed them (or that the genius does, with piano playing)--I mean with some things I suppose there really is muscle memory and so on--but I'm think how it's a folk notion of mind/consciousness that imagines us as like octopuses, with awareness and [a degree of] will distributed in our limbs.
Matinee and The Hands of Orlac
What people scare themselves into believing does more damage than anything they can know for sure. --This statement feels applicable more broadly than the film, maybe/probably because when people scare themselves into believing something, the something is limited only by their imaginations, and people's imaginations seem to work especially well in the fear department.
while the film may observe the absurdity with which they have been conditioned to react to the prospect, it does not encourage us to condescend to them because of it. --It sounds really good.
The Hands of Orlac
I got pretty spooked just reading your description; I can imagine being well and truly unnerved trying to watch it.
The idea that malice of the acts lives in the parts of the body that committed them (or that the genius does, with piano playing)--I mean with some things I suppose there really is muscle memory and so on--but I'm think how it's a folk notion of mind/consciousness that imagines us as like octopuses, with awareness and [a degree of] will distributed in our limbs.