08-09-2026, 06:21 AM
I was alone in the theatre but for a few people, which means I wasn't alone; and I performed a ritual in realtime during the Sirens scene that worked.
What made the movie itself work was two things: The way awkwardness was ran with as transitional time/scene edits made memory and lore so direct that it couldn't be otherwise, and how the movie demolished its own credibility as "this is what happened" into this is what we will remember, not having happened, but, happening.
In that sense, Hart Crane, W. C. Williams and other more recent people took advantage of abstract modernism and jazz and surrealism and made "epics".
What made the movie itself work was two things: The way awkwardness was ran with as transitional time/scene edits made memory and lore so direct that it couldn't be otherwise, and how the movie demolished its own credibility as "this is what happened" into this is what we will remember, not having happened, but, happening.
In that sense, Hart Crane, W. C. Williams and other more recent people took advantage of abstract modernism and jazz and surrealism and made "epics".