Showing posts with label Andrew Dominik. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Dominik. Show all posts
2.1.10

Light Bandits...

I viewed Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James... the other day, which I think is a somewhat interesting film, though hardly one deserving any sort of mention on this blog were it not for a rather exquisite twenty-five second sort of interlude (one of several of varying length and content) studying light dancing in an empty household, which struck me as fairly admirable display of the capacity of light to resonate on a highly emotional level (both within and well outside of a narrative context), one far more substantial than the melancholy score (by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) or the dramatic flexing by the actors could ever hope to approach…









Laughably inconsequential (perhaps even trite) to most I suppose, but such are my current sensibilities, for better or worse…