Wednesday Nov 27, 2002

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Saw Cronenberg's Spider... found it way more disturbing than "Element of Crime" or "Mulholland Drive". Or any Cronenberg movie so far. It made me think about the way mental disorders (generally speaking) are portrayed in movies. Not even speaking of the "fishing for Awards" Hollywood school of psycho movies; artist's fascination for madness is so great even in the movies produced outside this system, madness is "glamourized" in some way (anybody saw Lars von Trier's TV series "Kingdom"?). Spider almost succeeds in avoiding that. Almost.
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a35mmlife:
Kindom! Thats what it is called. I was talking about that show with someone this week and couldnt remember the name. I must see that...*mental note* Films about the mad freak me out. Im barely holding on myself at times, i fear pushing the wrong buttons. smile
rawr_ima_monster:
heeheehee. no, I am not a vegatarian, I just made a vegatarian food for the LA potluck thing. I ate plenty of animals at home. I don't really consider this a party, it was more of a family visit kind of thing. also, I haven't partied with the west coasters for a while, hopefully, I'll get a chance to next weekend.
-so I should make a movie where the crazy guy is just a terrible blastard lunatic and everyone hates him? even when you do thatpeopel become darkly fascinated by him, there's no way out of this trap.
Dave

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