Ooh, maybe I'll get wakanomori to watch this one with me.
Few things trap a woman more seamlessly than the expectation of politeness, --SO TRUE
Your remark about sparagmos suddenly opens up a connection between this genealogy of films and--well, I don't know if it's a whole genre, but the fear-of-rustics/the country theme that's represented by Deliverance. The Deliverance lens strips off any sense of the sacred and leaves you just with savagery--it's the fear urban people have had of the "uncultured" since there were cities (which is to say, a thousands-of-years-old fear). The urban eye looks at rural life and sees Other, sometimes something to long after, sometimes something to shudder over.
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Few things trap a woman more seamlessly than the expectation of politeness, --SO TRUE
Your remark about sparagmos suddenly opens up a connection between this genealogy of films and--well, I don't know if it's a whole genre, but the fear-of-rustics/the country theme that's represented by Deliverance. The Deliverance lens strips off any sense of the sacred and leaves you just with savagery--it's the fear urban people have had of the "uncultured" since there were cities (which is to say, a thousands-of-years-old fear). The urban eye looks at rural life and sees Other, sometimes something to long after, sometimes something to shudder over.