Poptimism THORT for the day

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"pop is a map of the world at large (everything else is a map of 1xcommunity at small)"

That one submitted by dubdobdee.

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"in the end... it's about loneliness"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i ended the "if..." book by saying this: which was a rhetorical device obviously (it's about lots of things), but is a way of saying that anderson's own experience of loneliness -- his commitment to it, in fact -- had a shaping effect on his sense of form; in particular his sense of how to end his film (and of course i was very consciously thinking about how to end my book)

i don't in fact believe this was front-and-centre conscious on anderson's part, at least in the sense that he had decided to "make a film about loneliness" (if he had decided to do that, it would have been quite another film, and maybe not about schools at all): he tended to be fairly (too?) open about what he considered his aims and intentions in any given film

but i think once you start to think about this element in his personality, you see very clearly the impasse his politics and film-making had run into -- why he never again made as strong a film, for example

i think with aspects like form,by which i mean the feeling about when something is well-made, or the "right shape", or completed, or "what you meant", the impulse(s) can sometimes be operating at a very deep, unconscious or intuitive level, which you are resisting when operating in conscious modes: not least because these decisions are being made towards to end of a project, when your will to engage with the things that took you into it may be exhausted (as indeed may you, functioning on instinct getting something done)