wtf

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Charting the tragically short life of Joy Division front man Ian Curtis -- who died at just 23 -- Anton Corbijn directs this slick biopic charting his brief life as he struggles with fidelity, responsibility and crippling epileptic fits. It's lit by brilliant performances, but there seems to be a twinkling deeper turmoil here, that the film doesn't quite capture." — the london paper

"twinkling"?

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Twink agenda!

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

'twinkling deeper' sounds as if someone is looking down a grate, sees a shiny coin but has no way to get at it. Corbjin obv needs a string & magnet, something like that. wtf indeed.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a reference to the sound his trousers made.

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

I almost posted this elsewhere: Doesn't really elucidate this passage, but Barthes was very fond of The Twinkle as a mode. In The Neutral he writes: "A dictionary not of definitions but of twinklings {scintillations}[...] Not 'traits', 'elements', 'constituents', but what shines by bursts, in disorder, fugitively, successively..."

(You might enjoy this book: it is his lectures notes for a 1978 seminar, retaining all his gnomic bits of shorthand, his →s and ≠s - at times it reads like a Momus post rewritten by... you!)

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I'm more bemused by the use of the word "slick", to describe a film which could be alternately titled The Post-Punk 'Taste Of Honey'.