tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post1259850472107911070..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Caretaker Sparkle: ROOM 237Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-10458116165878207302013-10-04T15:00:06.878-05:002013-10-04T15:00:06.878-05:00Great write up. I wonder if, in fifty years, wome...Great write up. I wonder if, in fifty years, women that aren't yet born will haunt themselves to Nicole Kidman the way the women of to Marilyn Monroe now. johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-22532814290853746692013-10-02T15:02:02.666-05:002013-10-02T15:02:02.666-05:00and of course they're so copyright lawyered up...and of course they're so copyright lawyered up you couldn't post this collage onto youtube no doubt, they'd be on it like hawksErich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-43054611521812063502013-10-02T13:34:54.345-05:002013-10-02T13:34:54.345-05:00That happened to my dad and I once too - in FAO Sc...That happened to my dad and I once too - in FAO Schwarz on a family vacation, they were playing Pocahontas and Aristocats on two TVs - and the images of the first matched the sound of the second perfectly, lip movement and everything. We even captured the uncanniness on video. But that's Disney for you...full of sneaky synchronicities and subliminal pornographic images...Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-3791412828936084992013-10-02T09:36:02.926-05:002013-10-02T09:36:02.926-05:00thanks Joel! Glad you stressed the point that the ...thanks Joel! Glad you stressed the point that the power of the overlapping projections isn't reduced by being an accident, or the result of symmetrical centered images. I thought the same thing myself, but that's how meaning is often generated. Any film that can lend itself to such paranoid study must have something on the ball, though I imagine if you looked deep enough any text could be read to mean anything, but that doesn't diminish the power either, just shows everything's interconnected. The best example of this for me was when my buddy Max and I were watching the DIsney Jungle book with the sound off and for an entire song the hypnotist snake in the film danced in perfect synchronicity to the song on the tape deck. I mean synchronicity happens all the time but this was ridiculous, mind-blowing, like the I Ching! Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-61182410783556997132013-10-02T03:11:51.494-05:002013-10-02T03:11:51.494-05:00Yeah, I liked it although I'd heard a lot of t...Yeah, I liked it although I'd heard a lot of tut-tutting beforehand. I don't buy any of the theories as far as intentionality goes (if that matters) - and ultimately the unconscious effect of formal qualities probably account for more of The Shining's power than intellectual/historical references. But the unreeling of theories is a gas and the documentary makes, as you note, an appropriately insular and insane parallel to the insular and insane film it covers. As for the forward/backward parallels (I wish they'd shown the meeting-in-the-middle moment but I suppose eventually some enterprising enthusiast will do that whole exercise in Final Cut and post it on YouTube)...I think that synchronicity is due more to Kubrick's penchant for symmetrical, centered framings than anything else. But this doesn't reduce the power, anymore than Pink Floyd not having a projector with a 16mm print of Wizard of Oz in the recording studio reduces the power of the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" exercise.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-22384351859501229572013-10-01T00:46:18.551-05:002013-10-01T00:46:18.551-05:00Interesting timing - I just finished re-watching T...Interesting timing - I just finished re-watching The Shining not 30 minutes ago, and will be watching Room 237 either tomorrow morning or the day after. So...yeah, I'll be back with further thoughts.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.com