Your Blood (Honey)

Film theory has always been more inspiring to me than just watching films as is. I’ve been reading “The Impossible David Lynch.” Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the first chapter:

…The escape from reality–the cinema itself–becomes the privileged site for determining the way in which the subject understands reality.

…There is no Film that has been made not to be seen.

…In Short, the scene that the voyeur witnesses is always a scene created for the look of the voyeur, and this is what the voyeur cannot see.

…His films confront one with sequences that reveal one’s own investment in what one see’s.

…Passionate Detachment…(the goal where) the spectator thinks rather than blindly identifies.

…In the act of decrying fantasy as an imaginary manipulation, the proponents of a distancing cinema fail to see the real moment within every fantasy. It is this moment that the films of David Lynch emphasize.

I also watched about 8 movies, and have been reading several books. I realized that the library is basically the internet before there was an internet. You can go to the library and get up to 150 (in Indianapolis at least) titles from any catagory of media. Amazing. The internet could, and should, and in some ways is just a more liberal library–except the government dosen’t pay for the copyrights. This sort of compromises my understanding of purchasing. Regardless, Amazon Unbox, Hulu, and similar services seem promising, and a pretty good comprises to the problem.