I’ve found that advocacy documentaries are the most difficult to write about, because the audience’s positive reaction is inevitably premised on the shared opinion that, well, the filmmakers are right. In a sense, there may be no better environment — that of the clarifying white heat of anger — in which to make a film; [...]
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"Attempting to burrow and disappear into the admiration of certain works of art, I tried to make such deep and pure identification that my integrity as a human self would become optional, a vestige of my relationship to the art. I wanted to submit and submerge, even to die a little. I developed a preference, among others, for art that required endurance, that mimicked a galactic endlessness and wore out the nonbelievers. By ignoring my hunger or my need to use the bathroom during a three-hour movie by Kubrick or Tarkovsky, I'd voted against my body, with its undeniable pangs and griefs, in favor of a self composed of eyeballs and brain, floating in the void of pure art." ---- Jonathan Lethem, "The Beards"Recent Comments
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