largely because of the exclamations from the man behind the camera who kept asking himself in a wondering tone “what does it MEAN?” and eventually, crying and laughing with excess emotion.
That does sound classically Romantic. Stendhal syndrome if you faint and otherwise just a relatively usual reaction to the beauties of nature.
When, a while back on this journal, I saw your description of Cagney as Nick Bottom (you write review something like “not even by synesthesia can he describe his experience”)
I had to go looking because I remembered the performance but not the date of the description and found a comment on poliphilo's LJ, not mine. I wonder if I reposted it or just linked.
I wondered whether Friedrich’s figures have their backs to us, not only so we can imagine ourselves in their place, but because any expression on their faces would seem ludicrously inadequate to the beauties they are observing.
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That does sound classically Romantic. Stendhal syndrome if you faint and otherwise just a relatively usual reaction to the beauties of nature.
When, a while back on this journal, I saw your description of Cagney as Nick Bottom (you write review something like “not even by synesthesia can he describe his experience”)
I had to go looking because I remembered the performance but not the date of the description and found a comment on
I wondered whether Friedrich’s figures have their backs to us, not only so we can imagine ourselves in their place, but because any expression on their faces would seem ludicrously inadequate to the beauties they are observing.
That makes a lot of sense to me, and I like it.