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“The sky overhead is a searing blue, streaked with pink and gold strati.”

“Time is running, day by day, increment by increment.”

“The only thing on the card is a 702 phone number. That and the scent of perfume. He doesn’t know what. Obsession. Opium. Her.”

“It’s all over now, baby blue.”

“He isn’t dead. The dead don’t throb from K-pop coming up through the floor. The dead don’t bleed.”

nagisa oshima, prison abolitionist

“Today, when all art is placed on the conveyor belt of mass communication and artists treated like overprotected children, it has become difficult for fresh art that explains the unknown regions of the human psyche to emerge.”

“If we make films about the past as their subject, they must also contain premonitions about the future.”

“We must destroy the illusion that films are characterized by the flat storytelling of the naturalist novel and affirm that what is cinematic is bold fiction and free structure.”

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this is some of the most stimulating and insightful writing on film (+more!) I’ve read in quite some time

I am a citizen of the communist country Film. ❤️

the side effect of opening a section with self-reflexive essay is that it makes me pause and go on mental tangents, so then I can barely read after

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I would with myself.”

A very very drunk orthodox dude yelling “I challenge you all now, all you atheists!!!” is pretty funny. Interesting how Dostoevsky plays w/ genre: “Crime & Punishment” uses the crime serial (obviously), and this uses the romance novel. I’m surprised at how much the second half is leaning into the yearnings of its characters.

“All our inveterate, much-advertised socialists, here as well as abroad, are nothing more than liberals who come from landowners from the time of serfdom.”

“Sometimes one wants to have a friend nearby; I, too, evidently wanted to have a friend…”