squinting

Michael 2022-03-22 09:01:34

*prohibition of montages*

Made us feel frustrated, claustrophobic. It is as if we are in a psychotic world without any symbols intervening.

Demonstrated psychotic "action": jumping straight from language to "behavior", implementing the professor's pseudo-Nietzschean theory.

The dimension of rendu exists in the form of the film: the message of the film is the form itself.

*guilt shift*

By committing murder, the murderer realizes the repressed desire of the third party. The murderer expects a return from a third party as compensation for the murder.

*recipient of murderous act*

The subject is usually not prepared to recognize the true meaning of his actions in the confusion caused by his actions.

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Extended Reading
  • Assunta 2021-11-13 08:01:22

    Long shot + obscure Brokeback Mountain

  • Madelyn 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    A few cuts... It is close to the extreme suspense and thrilling in a single scene in one shot.

Rope quotes

  • Rupert Cadell: Sorry, knives may not be used on hotel employees. They are in the "death by slow torture" category. Along with bird lovers, small children, and tap dancers.

  • Brandon: The few are those men of such intellectual and cultural superiority that they're above the traditional moral concepts. Good and evil, right and wrong, were invented for the ordinary, average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

    Mr. Kentley: Then obviously you agree with Nietzsche and his theory of the superman.

    Brandon: Yes, I do.

    Mr. Kentley: So did Hitler.

    Brandon: Hitler was a paranoiac savage. His supermen, all fascist supermen, were brainless murderers. I'd hang any who were left. But then, you see, I'd hang them first for being stupid. I'd hang all incompetents and fools anyway. There are far too many in the world.

    Mr. Kentley: Then, perhaps you should hang me, Brandon.