Tuesday, June 9, 2009

On Absurdity and the Game c Dance



Deliverance...screams the game. Think of the 'rituals' happening within this film. The clash of cultures...the mirror - the repetition of lines, the lead and follow of the sound; an order in things...the mask...the displacement and creation of a subculture simultaneously hated as a species, but admired for their environment. Almost as if to highlight the absurdity of the term Hill-Billy. But doesn't in some way...the environment dictate the life that grows there? The seedy culture of nature...where manure nourishes freaks...not 'beautiful' flowers!

Also take note of the costumes...especially Burt Reynold's...looks like he just stepped out of the Apocalypse Now or some James Bond flick...is this our soldier 37 years ago, but considerably older? In the past, but older than now; conjugating the past and the future into the living present(verb)?

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