I will never get over the curse. I'd thought, before that, that at least one of them might get out, but after pronouncing a curse like that the elder was as doomed by being able to do it as the younger was by being cursed.
I remember it felt to me like the thing that removed any chance of expiating the gull-killing, as if Teiresias had redoubled the sea-cursing of Odysseus instead of giving him the ritual of the oar. And it's so unnecessary, which is one of the human parts of the trouble. You can call out the gods of the sea like a warp-spasm and you do it in a drunken row over the lobster? I still can't believe the film's sole Oscar nomination was for the cinematography, although it would have deserved to win for it.
Speaking of revenge tragedies, The Northman (2022) continues to resist streaming on any service I have access to, so I think we should just get it out from the library and watch it old-school on DVD.
and it was like, I wasn't trying to select for movies in which someone cinematically throws a large quantity of semen at/across a cosmic horror? I wouldn't have thought of that as a remotely common motif? And yet, twice in two months. It takes three examples to make a genre and I'm not sure whether I want there to be a third in existence or not.
I kind of want there to be one just to see what it is. Pink Narcissus (1971) does not count.
I still have the ticket stub for In Fabric. I held on to it first because I liked the movie so much and then because it felt like a kind of gate. It remains the last thing I saw in theaters.
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I remember it felt to me like the thing that removed any chance of expiating the gull-killing, as if Teiresias had redoubled the sea-cursing of Odysseus instead of giving him the ritual of the oar. And it's so unnecessary, which is one of the human parts of the trouble. You can call out the gods of the sea like a warp-spasm and you do it in a drunken row over the lobster? I still can't believe the film's sole Oscar nomination was for the cinematography, although it would have deserved to win for it.
Speaking of revenge tragedies, The Northman (2022) continues to resist streaming on any service I have access to, so I think we should just get it out from the library and watch it old-school on DVD.
and it was like, I wasn't trying to select for movies in which someone cinematically throws a large quantity of semen at/across a cosmic horror? I wouldn't have thought of that as a remotely common motif? And yet, twice in two months. It takes three examples to make a genre and I'm not sure whether I want there to be a third in existence or not.
I kind of want there to be one just to see what it is. Pink Narcissus (1971) does not count.
I still have the ticket stub for In Fabric. I held on to it first because I liked the movie so much and then because it felt like a kind of gate. It remains the last thing I saw in theaters.